Quotes About Challenge

Like wading through water; That hard, that slow.

I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on. --Robert Browning

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

your ass is grass...

I didn't know what I thought, other than that nothing was easy anymore and no matter what I did, things got messed up.

Sometimes we must all fall out of a tree.

Nate tried not to stare at Paul, but he kept thinking of the devilish teenager who'd clowned around on Papa's ships. He'd sneak vinegar into the men's canteens. He'd taught the ship's parrot to cuss in French. Nobody drove Papa and his men crazier — or made them laugh harder.

I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I'll still be questing after just that right combination of words.

forcing Magellan to seek shelter. He ordered the fleet to reverse course

They had no longboat, no firewood, and scant clothing.

Prince Henry offered a bold reply, "You cannot find a peril so great that the hope of reward will not be greater.

and it was probably a robust sudestada that caused Magellan to turn back and seek shelter.

together with Alfonso Gonçalves Baldaya, returned to Cape Bojador;

over the rail and lowered himself onto a crude seat suspended high above the waves.

Magellan found it impossible to enforce this directive), as were card and dice players.

Drake, intensely annoyed by this challenge to his command

the way became narrower, they thought it was a river

After all the ordeals suffered by the armada, the discovery of the strait did lay claim to being a miracle.

The hapless accountant Antonio de Coca was merely deprived of his rank.

Winter had navigated the Strait not just once, as Magellan and Drake had, but twice.

The farther south he went, the more concerned Magellan became that he had accidentally passed the strait.

Once the horror of the inquisitional catharsis subsided, Mesquita (with Magellan's blessing)

After six months at sea, Magellan's ability to lead the armada was still in grave doubt.

Laurence Bergreen