Quotes About Challenge

The damnedest thing was that there wasn't much I could do about it. Not because I was chained up, held at gunpoint, and probably going to die—though I had to admit, that might make things somewhat difficult

His feet still hurt horribly, but going back down the hill was easier than going up.

The evening had obviously been moving along entirely too smoothly, I thought. Something had gone wrong.

I have fought long and hard against horrors even you would respect. I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I'm not going to start yielding now.

Darwin always thought that it paid to be a quick learner. The war had simply made the penalty for not learning quite a bit steeper.

Her chin lifted, and her hard, cold eyes flickered in naked, unconcealed pride. "Never once in your life, my Knight, have you taken the easy road. I chose well.

They're just itching for me to lead them in some meaningful crusade against evil. Hell, I have trouble just paying the bills.

Just once," I growled, "I'd like to save the goddamned day without a shot clock. You know?

but one of them had rolled a higher initiative this round

But, as it turned out, hell got up awfully early in the morning.

I would beat you to crap if you didn't already look like it

You think you know the world," the old man said. "You're barely in it yet. You ain't seen what it gets like. How bad it can get. How cruel.

So," Murphy said. "All we need to do is get you up to the top of the pit, and then you're going to go one-on-four with a bunch of armed FBI agents-cum-werewolves and beat them in time to go up against the loup-garou that we couldn't stop before with all of your magical gizmos and a building full of police officers." "Essentially," I answered. Murphy

We need you to help talk us through this. That's crazy! I said. Go in guns blazing!

I couldn't arm wrestle an ogre, even with the mantle. I couldn't have won a magical duel with Mab or Titania—probably not even against Maeve or Lily. I couldn't outrun one of the Sidhe. But I could defy absolutely anyone. I could lift my will against that of anything, and know that the fight might be lopsided, but never hopeless.

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.

Goodbye, wizard." And the slender girl flung me like a baseball at the stone of my fireplace. Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

The reward for work well-done is more work. "Ain't that the truth," I muttered. I stuffed the book back in my pocket and hit the road again.

The thing about creatures as big as the Jotun is that they come without power steering.

All right, so. The entire day wasn't a living hell. But, as it turned out, hell got up awfully early in the morning.

Game over, man. Game over.

Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine, Grimm said.

Mr. Dresden," Parker growled. He eyed me up and down. "What exactly makes you think you can stop me from killing you?" I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children. "Oh, I don't know," I chuckled. "Maybe because the second you step out of line, I'm going to wreck you a whole hell of a lot worse than that truck. And because in just a couple of minutes, the police are going to be arriving to sort you out.

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.