Quotes About Challenge

Dilly reckons it would be difficult to thread those needles, the eyes so small, especially with her cataracts.

To hell with it, he thought. Bad start is a good ending, boys.

That wasn't a mistake, was 'a fully justified venture which, for reasons beyond your control, did not work

The rapid firing of the 105s pounding the hill up ahead encouraged him. Maybe this won't be so bad, he reasoned. No one could survive that pounding.

Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not to confine themselves to seeking piecemeal improvements in the way things are done, but to present fundamental challenges in the name of reason to the current way of doing things and to the avowed or hidden assumptions on which it rests

A rusty bolt is the most difficult to withdraw; but once removed, though replaced, it will never hold securely.

Sissy looked at the shot glass full of pig semen and threw it back neat.

Calvin had said, his hands hard at his sides.

Balance was so elusive: either it was like this, too fast, or there was the heavy thing like wading through a swamp to get to the end of a sentence.

It was as if every time she played the ace of spades, it was beaten by a small trump.

Life in the kingdom isn't easy, at least not when we want to share the throne. But

Sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us" (Danticat 19).

the old story of the man who was going to fight a duel the next day. His second asked him, Are you a good shot? Well, said the duelist, I can snap the stem of a wineglass at twenty paces, and he looked modest. That's all very well, said the unimpressed second. But can you snap the stem of the wineglass while the wineglass is pointing a loaded pistol straight at your heart?

Very few worthwhile things are not difficult, in some fashion

Given up, Khouri? It's not in my dictionary.

we live to fight another day

Experience shows that in such undertakings, the imagination is alarmed not so much by realities as phantoms, which vanish before a courageous heart which can look them in the face with contempt

The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

What is a rebel A man who says no.