Quotes About Challenge

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

All great ideas are dangerous.

I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll ever match it. I used to think it was difficult for children of folks who really loved each other, hard to get out from under that skin because sometimes it's just so comfortable you don't want to have to develop your own.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

Love shouldn't be comfortable.

The toughest role is real life.

It was physically impossible for the verger to be suffering from time-lag, unless it was somehow contagious.

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning

Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

White pussy is nothin but trouble.

I dont think you havin a bad day, Professor. I think you havin a bad life.

A malign star kept him.

For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?

I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.

I don't see you holdin no aces.

He understood what the priest could not. That what we seek is the worthy adversary. For we strike out to fall flailing through demons of wire and crepe and we long for something of substance to oppose us. Something to contain us or to stay our hand. Otherwise there were no boundaries to our own being and we too must extend our claims until we lose all definition. Until we must be swallowed up at last by the very void to which we wished to stand opposed.

In the grueling light that passed for day...

Whoo, he said when he saw them. I'm drunkern shit. They sat their horses and looked down at him. Can you ride or not? said Rawlins. Does a bear shit in the woods? Hell yes I can ride. I was ridin when I fell off.

Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a little problem anymore.

Real trouble doesnt begin in a society until boredom has become its most general feature. Boredom will drive even quietminded people down paths they'd never imagined.

You are either going to have to find some other way to live or some other place in the world to do it in.