Quotes About Challenge

I really enjoy life I'm just not good at it.

Life: that narrow space between a rock and a hard place.

All my life I've been trying to fit insane pieces into the puzzle of sanity. Or maybe the other way around.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; These are not done by jostling in the street.

I felt as if I had been confronted by a blank wall, but panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.

The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. The world is a match for us. We are a match for the world.

I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Couldn't you play better tennis with the net down?

VERS LIBRE. A device for making poetry easier to write and harder to read.

Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

poets swing too high until the chain kinks and snaps mid-air the fall is poetry

Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can be killed only once, but in politics many times.

You'll wish that you had done some of the hard things when they were easier to do.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

It's hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs — they always take them literally.

In these circumstances I think we must take the bull by the horns... and, making due allowances, quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

I refuse to be intimidated by reality anymore. After all, what is reality anyway? Nothin' but a collective hunch.

Who put a "stop payment" on my reality check?

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Put on your big girl panties and deal with it.

The man who kicks up a shindy will probably improve the morals of mankind; he will beyond any question improve his own. In short, I believe getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.