Quotes About Challenge

Well, you gonna pull them pistols or whistle Dixie?

Do ya' feel lucky, punk?

I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?

Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?

We have an opponent who wants nothing more than to bring about our demise.

We're not lost," he said in a cheery tone. "We're just locationally deficient and directionally challenged at the moment.

Life's a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Two unarmed men against six loaded for bear. We need to even the odds." "Got a plan?" asked Giordino. "I certainly do." Giordino gave the little man with the academic, nerdy look a bemused stare. "Is it evil, rotten, and sneaky?" Gunn nodded, with an impish grin. "All that, and more."   THE

In those days you matched a block of balsa against a rudimentary diagram and got going with a razor blade, which sliced your thumb as readily as it carved the balsa. If the result was recognizable as an aeroplane, you were an expert. If your thumb was recognizable as a thumb, you were a genius.

We rebelled by criminal methods against the joyfulness of the new life." —LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI QUOTING BUKHARIN AT HIS TRIAL, IN MAIN CURRENTS OF MARXISM, VOL. 3, P. 82

The clavadista checks the tower On the cliffs from which he dives Turning two thirds of the way down To mark the point Where all the somersaults are over And he must go in feet first or else break

An army that never leaves its defences Is bound to be defeated, said Napoleon, Who left them, and was defeated.

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

If he turned and ran, the border would follow, and the moment he turned around, there, one step behind him would be Mexico, staring him down with those eyes -

When confronted with unexpected and ambiguous circumstances, you can either see opportunity or obstacles. I believe that opportunity is present even in chaotic situations.

White people find it extremely hard to live in an environment they don't control.

When are a 'lady on your own,' in other words the landlords' abomination, outcast and terror all rolled into one, you take what you find, lodge where you may, and put up with newly plastered walls.

Like any decent reconaissance agent, he had fought his way into trouble in order to fight his way out

Yes, Siri. A dedicated socialist plunges headfirst into the troubled waters without testing the depth." "Isn't he likely to bump his head on the bottom?" Siri asked.

Jam nie z soli wyrósÅ' ani z roli, jeno z tego, co mnie boli

I have noticed that the stoutest pessimists, when fate or men try to take something out of their lives, fight tooth and nail, and cry out as loud as the greatest optimists.

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

As a negotiator, take some risk, break free from the precedent of your past experiences, challenge your assumptions, raise your aspiration level, and increase your expectations.