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Quotes About Challenge

I aint sure we've seen these people before. Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even. If you killed em all they'd have to build a annex on to hell.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You aint ready for that.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Are you real brave? Just medium. What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The whole affair calls up images you'd rather not entertain. Her great hummocky fundament wobbling away down the street like a sack of cats headed for the river.
~ Cormac McCarthy
So what is the way of raising a child? At a young age, said the judge, they should be put in a pit with wild dogs. They should be set to puzzle out from their proper clues the one of three doors that does not harbor wild lions. They should be made to run naked in the desert until Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Cormac McCarthy
They put their animals to the ford and crossed, the water up under the horses' bellies and the horses picking their way over the rocks and glancing wildly upstream where a cataract thundered out of the darkening forest into the flecked and seething pool below.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The enemy of your undertaking is despair.
~ Cormac McCarthy
But the old woman said that some have no choice. She said that for the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.
~ Cormac McCarthy
They rode back, Rawlins leading the riderless horse by the bridlereins. Blevins was sitting in the middle of the road. He still had his hat on. 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. He stood uncertainly and peered about.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Eres capaz de hacerlo? ¿Cuando llegue el momento? Cuando llegue el momento no habrá momento que valga.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He probably doesnt get it that if you scratch from the menu everything that's hard to swallow it's going to make for a pretty lean lunch.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I ain't ahead by a damn sight. I never will be.
~ Cormac McCarthy
the only thing worse than losing is not playing. I
~ Cormac McCarthy
the only thing worse than losing is not playing
~ Cormac McCarthy
You care if I say somethin. Say it. Why don't we do what we said and just trade like he wasnt here. Damn if you aint awful hard on a man. Callin on him to follow his own advice. It's hell aint it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
El malpaís. Era un laberinto. Subías a toda prisa un pequeño promontorio y de repente te veías rodeado de grietas tan profundas que no te atrevías a saltarlas. Los bordes de cristal negro y puntiagudo y abajo puntiagudas rocas de sílex (...) Donde que nosotros sepamos está localizado el infierno
~ Cormac McCarthy
You think that when there's somethin that's got you snakebit you can just walk off and forget it. The truth is it aint even following you. It's waitin for you. It always will be.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You think that when there's somethin that's got you snakebit you can just walk off and forget it. The truth is it aint even following you. It's waitin for you. It always will be.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You're a formidable riddler and I'll not match words with ye
~ Cormac McCarthy
America is a grand example of the Biblical challenge: what does it profit an empire to gain the whole world and lose its soul?
~ Cornel West
But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
~ Cornelia Funke
It's a cruel world, don't you think?
~ Cornelia Funke