Quotes About Challenge

Something like this will test you like nothing else, Mac said. You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross. He took my empty glass away and said, You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost.

I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly. ~Harry Dresden

I'd gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters and nightmares, because it was easier than going to the gym.

I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. And I, Harry Dresden, am that man, I stated.

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

Michael half-smiled. "The Lord will never give you a burden bigger than your shoulders can bear, Harry. All we can do is face what comes and have faith." I gave him a sour glance. "I need to get myself some bigger shoulders, then. Someone in accounting must have made a mistake.

Love this job, Sanya murmured. Just love it. I need to challenge more people to duels, Thomas said in agreement. Men are pigs, Murphy said. Amen, said Molly. Lea gave me a prim look and said, I've not sacrificed a holy virgin in ages.

Isana felt her throat tighten. We failed. Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.

A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I've got some kind of medical issue that's going to kill me in a while if I don't deal with it, oh, and the island's blowing up tomorrow and taking a whole lot of the country with it if I don't fix it." Thomas gave me a steady look. "So," he said. "Same old, same old.

Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

Thomas barked out a laugh. There are seven of us against the Red King and his thirteen most powerful nobles, and it's going well? Mouse sneezed. Eight, Thomas corrected himself. He rolled his eyes and said, And the psycho death faerie makes it nine. It is like movie, Sanya said, nodding. Dibs on Legolas.

Butters, rumbled Skaldi Hair Ball. If he really had broken fingers, it didn't look like they were bothering him much. When are you going to get in this ring and train like a man? About five minutes after I get a functional lightsaber, Butters replied easily, much to Hair Ball's amusement.

I had to maintain a fine balance between going in ready for trouble and going in asking for trouble.

Knight takes Knight," I called into the cloudy night air. "Check.

One does not simply walk into Mordor--except that was exactly what everyone in the story did anyway.)

This is scary. And we're doing it anyway, I said. That makes us brave, right? If we get away with it, I said. If we don't, it just makes us stupid.

Playing cat and mouse is generally only fun for the cat.

if you go exploring, you might find something that could hurt you. If one doesn't , one is not truly exploring

You!" I said, relishing the moment. "Shall not! Pass!

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

I kicked the door open, staff held ready to fight, and shouted, And I'm all outta bubble gum!

We've got a goddamned wizard! Fuck those guys!

There are many things you have never done," Rowl responded. "To be frightened of them is of no use to you.