Quotes About Challenge

Life is full of risks...that first step of faith was often taken neck-deep in fear.

I've never tried to imagine a world without God. This one seems hard enough as it is.

Sometimes standing for something is simply not enough......Espeacially when life blows you a mighty wind inwhich knocks you off of your feet or the very thing that kept you grounded is taken away,Convusion and Elusion can very well become your concrete.

A thorn can only be removed with another thorn

For a lame horse, slippery is an excuse

You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job.

You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.

He was like a huge smug albatross waddling around my desk, squawking vacuously and crapping all over my paperwork.

Always fuck with people's expectations, sunshine. It's good for their circulation.

I was never afraid of getting killed and I was never afraid of losing my nerve. My kind of courage holds up best under fire; it's different dangers, more refined and insidious ones, that shake me.

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall. That's nothing more than instinct, falling back on what you know best. I think I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch of solid ground, and then dig my heels in and fight to start over.

If you're perfectly happy with what you've got–specially if what you've got isn't even all that spectacular–then you're dangerous. You're breaking all the rules, you're undermining the sacred economy, you're challenging every assumption that society's built on.

At the top of the basement steps, Kevin balked. "No way. I'm not going down there. Seriously, Frank." "Every time you say no to your big brother, God kills a kitten. Come on.

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall. That's nothing more than instinct, falling back on what you know best.

one never really knows what one is capable of until the situation presents itself.

The tricky shiver in the air was a reminder: everything you believe is up for grabs, every ground rule can change on a moment's whim, and the dealer always, always wins.

It feels like someone's using a tennis ball machine to fire starving pug dogs at you.

No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game. It's more cunning than you are, it's faster and it's a whole lot more ruthless. All you can do is try to keep up, know your weak spots and never stop expecting the sucker punch.

I got weary," Cal says. "Bone-weary." He did. Every morning got to be like waking up with the flu, knowing he had to trek miles up a mountain.

No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game.

Sooner or later, we all end up getting a good kick in the certainties. That's what life is. The trick is to turn that kick into a stepping-stone towards the next level of certainty.

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.

Beat the storm to feel the breeze !!