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Quotes About Challenge

Oh, I am not challenging your sincerity, Ernest continued. You are sincere. You preach what you believe. There lies your strength and your value—to the capitalist class.
~ Jack London
impossible . . . and . . . and I so loved our partnership, and was proud of it.  Don't you see?—I can't go on being your partner if you make
~ Jack London
Không nên tin vào b? ngoài, mà trước h?t ph?i Ä'em ra thá»­ thách thá»±c t?.
~ Jack London
Solomon Island scourges, dysentery, had struck Berande plantation, and he was all alone to cope with it.  Also, he was afflicted himself. By stooping close, still on man-back, he managed to pass through the low doorway.  He took
~ Jack London
a pride greater than any he had yet experienced. He had killed man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club and fang.
~ Jack London
And there came a day when the hawk's shadow did not drive him crouching into the bushes. He had grown stronger and wiser, and more confident. Also, he was desperate. So he sat on his haunches, conspicuously in an open space, and challenged the hawk down out of the sky. For he knew that there, floating in the blue above him, was meat, the meat his stomach yearned after so insistently.
~ Jack London
snow on the alternative facet, striving
~ Jack London
his fighting spirit was aroused—the fighting spirit that soars above odds, fails to recognize the impossible, and is deaf to all save the clamor for battle.
~ Jack London
He had hitched his wagon to a star and been landed in a pestiferous marsh.
~ Jack London
Bu h?rs?zl?k ayn? zamanda, ac?mas?z var olma mücadelesinde anlams?z bir engel olan ahlak anlay???n?n çürüdüÄŸünü veya parçaland???n? da gösteriyordu.
~ Jack London
This was his severest fight, and though in the end he killed them both, he was himself half killed in doing it.
~ Jack London
This is the revolution, my masters. Stop it if you can.
~ Jack London
I've — well, I've been down in the Pit," Joe succeeded in blurting out. "I must confess that you look like it — very much like it indeed." Mr. Bronson spoke severely, but if ever by great effort he conquered a smile, that was the time. "I presume," he went on, "that you do not refer to the abiding-place of sinners, but rather to some definite locality in San Francisco. Am I right?
~ Jack London
The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.
~ Jack McDevitt
To move the rocks might yield magical treasures, or, more likely, some unimaginable woe.
~ Jack Vance
There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.
~ Jack Vance
But still — there's always excitement The star gleams, you notice a circlet of planets, you ask yourself, will it be now? And time after time: the smoke and ammonia, the weird crystals, the winds of monoxide, the rains of acid. But you go on and on and on. Perhaps in the region ahead the elements coalesce into nobler forms. Of course it's the same slime and black trap and methane snow. And then suddenly: there it is. Utter beauty Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Jack Vance
young Araminta Smade
~ Jack Vance
Hunzel gave a fleering laugh. "Remember only that the Aquabelle work-camp is stark, and that the food — what there is of it — is sour and bitter.
~ Jack Vance
Folk who turn their backs on trouble only get their arses kicked.
~ Jack Vance
Life is a peculiar commodity, with dimensions of its own. Still, if you were to live a million years, engaged in continual pleasures of mind, spirit and body, so that every day you discovered a new delight, or solved an antique puzzle, or overcame a challenge; even a single hour wasted in torpor, somnolence or passivity would be as reprehensible as if the fault were committed by an ordinary person, with scanty years to his life.
~ Jack Vance
That's more easily said than done;
~ Jack Welch
The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
~ Jackson Pollock
Knowledge … is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
~ Jacob Bronowski