Quotes About Challenge

It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.

O que ele não sabia na época era que às vezes uma reação adequada à realidade é enlouquecer. Ouvir Gloria pedir racionalmente para morrer era inalar o contágio. Era uma armadilha de dedos chinesa, na qual, quanto mais você puxa os dedos para sair, mais apertada a armadilha fica. - valis

We were great builders, but one day we decided to play a game. We did it voluntarily; were we such good builders that we could build a maze with a way out but which constantly changed so that, despite the way out, in effect there was no way out for us...

Stuart said, "I hid once in the sidewalk. Do I have to do that again?" He looked around at the rest of them, seeking an answer. "Yes," Bonny said. "Then I will," he said. "But I came up out of the sidewalk; I didn't stay there. And I'll come up again.

Rivalry," General Tedeki said. "One group played against another. By the Leader. So he is never challenged.

Kill the Spartan runners," I said. Furiously, Kirsten lashed at me, "Is that one of your Berkeley educated remarks?

sometimes the best response to reality is to go insane

That's why their lives are worse than ours; they can't give up and die - they have to go on.

In our time we maintain colonies on Mars, on Luna; we're perfecting workable interstellar flight—these people have not been able to cope with the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma. This

it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane

Science fiction acts best as a guide to help people cope with the present. It should sharpen our concern and ability to handle current problems. It shouldn't just be an escape.

Yeah, we'll be retreating from now on. Giving ground, instead of taking it. It'll be like this today—losing fights, draws. Stalemates and worse." He raised his feverish eyes toward the ceiling of the little metal housing unit, face wild with passion and misery. "But, by God, we'll give them a run for their money. All the way back! Every inch!

Just when you thought that things couldn't get any worse, you find out that they've always been a lot worse than you thought they were. And then they get worse.

To get the best out of life here ...Good grief. There's plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to remember. Fall in love. Fall out of love. Gamble. Get drunk. See how long you can stay awake. Go for long walks at night. Discover what you're afraid of doing, and then do it.

war is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe.

He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject--what a burden his life was.

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon see with Fritz's own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.

there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.

The effect was as if each teacher was being examined by a fierce inspector, and each lesson became an ordeal in which not the pupils but the teachers were being tested.

In Geneva, Olivier Bonneville was becoming frustrated.

but knowing that she could do it wasn't the same as being able to do it just then.

Nevertheless, he understood: this was work, and it was hard, but they were equal to it, all of them.

Si los ángeles no lo lograron, ¿cómo osa siquiera planteárselo un hombre?

some of what's good has to hurt us a little