Quotes About Challenge

You can keep telling girls to be polite, to keep a level head and it'll all work out in the end. But don't be surprised when they figure out that you've been feeding them lies. Don't be alarmed when they grow tired of using their voices and playing by your rules. And don't be shocked when they decide that if they can't win a fair fight, they'll just have to fight dirty.

I believed, at twenty-two, that I had to force myself toward whatever filled me with dread, and along the way I'd lost the idea that fear was a useful gauge of risk.

Afraid was good, he thought. Change requires fear, he knew this too.

Your best opportunities are out on the skinny branch.

She's right, and yet my blood pumps faster, just thinking about having her naked and willingly at my mercy. I can't help but think she's exactly what I need: a challenge. And how sweet her submission would be, because I'd really earned it.

you know what happens when you push a dragon? They burn you alive, baby. You're playing with fire.

Never say never, baby," Chris replies, and then turns the key, bringing the soft purr of an expensive engine to life.

I'm armed and I'm ready to deal with a ghost, a man, his ex-girlfriend, or an assassin.

So you think long and hard about what you see here today, and where you're headed. But if you run, run fast. Because I'm going to come after you. That's just the kind of bastard I can't seem to help being

Life took you right to the edge of where you wanted to go, then turned left.

In medicine, uncertainty is the water we swim in.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

Most girls get flowers or candy. I get a declaration of martial law.

Tam considers me a challenge. I consider Tam a work in progress. I also think there's a gentleman lurking under that calculating exterior. Tam thinks 'gentleman' is a dirty word. I talk dirty to Tam every chance I get.

I was used to shooting beer cans off the back of an old washing machine, or at things that ran away from me that I intended to eat—not things that ran toward me with the intent of eating me. I'd found that to be a significant difference.

The road that went around and between the buildings hadn't been plowed, but Yasha didn't let that slow him down. He grinned at me in the rearview mirror. "No problem. Is like Siberia." "You've never been to Siberia," Ian said, his eyes still scanning for any movement other than our own. "True. But does not mean is not like Siberia.

Sometimes life goes by in a trickle and sometimes life goes by in a flood. It's in those rainy seasons you find out how well you can swim.

All the best things in life start with a risk.

Everything you want waits on the other side of fear.

Dying is a hard thing to get done, sometimes.

The most important endeavors require a risk.

No way out but through the storm now.

You're big enough to climb the rope; you're big enough to take the fall,

Sometimes, talking to Amber was like herding cats.