Quotes About Challenge

If my childhood had given me anything, it was endurance.

At Troy he found at last a scope to equal his abilities

Tell me,' I said, 'how do you know that your father is not right about my poisons? How do you know I will not drug you where you sit?' 'I do not.' 'Yet you would dare to stay?' 'I dare anything,' he said.

Every day makes me old," she said. "I do not have your years to waste. As for that safety, I do not want it. It is only more chains. Let them come at me if they dare.

You dare to threaten me?" These gods, I thought. They always say the same thing.

I can veil the sky itself. Just try to watch me.

My ambivalence, of course, only encouraged him. Any challenge was a game, and any game a pleasure. If I had loved him, he would have been gone, yet my revulsion brought him back and back.

Everything they reach for slips from their grasp." A chill shivered across my skin. "How do they bear it?" "As best they can.

I can break a hundred youths and send their bodies back to wailing mothers. I will tear your entails and eat them for my lunch. I fixed my gaze on his. "Try," I said.

Sorunun bir me?e fidesi gibi oldu?unu dü?ündüm. Topra??n üstünde basit, ye?il bir filiz ama alt?nda dall? budakl? kökler çukur aç?yor, derinlere yay?l?yor.

You have eked out ten more years of life, and I'm glad for you...You have made a fair run of blocking fate's path. But you cannot do it forever. The gods will not let you.

They are not naturally fools, it is only that they are caught between two scorpions.

Next time you're going to defy the gods, do it for a better reason.

But then there are those who wear their destinies like nooses, whose lives run straight as planks, however they try to twist it.

Any Challenge was a game, and any game a pleasure.

My skin was glowing, my teeth set. My lioness lashed her tail. Does no one the courage? Will no one dare to face me? So you see, in my way, I was eager for what came.

It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.

We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?

When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

The score never interested me, only the game.

A hard man is good to find.

monumental mess.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.