Quotes About Challenge

With your head, the wall breaks first.

You don't gain knowledge without a little pain.

I had three days to screw over Nicodemus Archleone and his crew and get this thing out of my head, without getting myself or my friend killed while I did it.

The man closed his eyes for a moment. Then he whispered, "My little girl was born early yesterday. She's still in the hospital. They couldn't move her." "Well," I said. "That makes it pretty simple. But that's not the same thing as easy, is it.

Look, people go on and on about how size isn't everything, and how the bigger they are, the harder they fall, but the people who say that probably haven't ever faced down a charging demon-bear so big it should have been on a drive-in movie screen.

They're always too strong. There's always more of them, and they're always too strong.

That woman, Grimm said quietly, drives me quite insane. Kettle grunted. Why'd you marry her, then?

I parked somewhere where I would probably get a ticket. I planned to ignore it. Anarchists have a much easier time finding parking spots.

You have to realize when you've reached the limits of what you can choose to do to change the situation.

It is the nature of life. Something unexpected happens. Something goes wrong, and the plan must change.

Finish that sentence, Raith, and we throw down," said Murphy in a calm, level voice.

I just put the Erlking on the bench and laid a beatdown on freaking Santa Claus!' I told them. 'So you tell me, who's next?

I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team.

You are the help." "We're in trouble," I said.

I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.

Pain is there to tell us when we've done something badly—it's a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them.

He smiled crookedly. "I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.

If I'd realized how rabid he was to catch me slipping, I wouldn't have added more fuel to his fire by hitting him in the mouth. Okay. I probably still would have hit him in the mouth. But I wouldn't have done it quite so hard.

We didn't charge into the fray so much as aggressively shamble.

Ah. Destiny is a . . . stone-cold bitch.

I don't always knock down doors," I said. "Sometimes it's a wall.

Gotta tell you, Murph," I sighed back. "I got a bad feeling about this." "Speak for yourself," Murphy said. "I just gave my last grenade to a Valkyrie and ordered her to blow up a kraken. I'm having a ball.

Translation," I said. "We got around her fair and square. She won't like it, but she'll accept it." "Oh yeah," Thomas muttered under his breath. "This isn't coming back to bite anyone in the ass later.

When you have a problem, you have a problem," I said thoughtfully. I nodded at Cristos. "When you have two problems, sometimes one of them is a solution in disguise.