Quotes About Challenge

She loved the games men played with death, Where death must win

It's no longer Colonel Norwood's time. The dead must not rise – they undermine everything their dying created. Resurrecting Norwood is an attempt to cancel history. I can't allow that, any more than any other human being would. And so all of this is a challenge to me. I was concerned that it might be a deliberate trap.

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.

Brave old world.

it was a thing that has to fall to rise …

Anyway, it was her job to subvert political things with art things, and to subvert art things with political things. Like

Then she told George that the story of the minotaur was one about facing what mazes you. She made it very clear that she was using the word maze, not amaze. Then, when you'd faced it, she said, the thing to do to get out of the labyrinth was to go back the way you'd come, follow your own thread, the thread you'd left behind you, and that this had a lot to do with knowing where we come from and what our roots are –

nobody in their right minds could make that story any good. Is this a challenge to my right mind? Daniel said. Indubitably, Elisabeth said. Well then, Daniel said. My right mind will meet your challenge.

Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's real rebellion.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion

A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting-Marcel Duchamp

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Prophesy if you dare.

Okay, I have to flee the storm again. Or I could stay.

What can we do about our world? Why do you all make me struggle?

I don't want this poem to be beautiful. I do.

And if I am I must still bring down the pyramid, the paradigm, the leader's pearl throne.

Fate, I say, has claws.

How much anguish can you tolerate?

After all, the word "travel" comes from the Latin "trepalium." Which, loosely translated, means "instrument of torture.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

I want to disrupt what's thought of as the default public radio voice. I want to challenge listeners as they ride the subway, jog on their treadmills, and drive on their commute. Even if the sounds and words we create might require greater concentration and attention, I believe our stories are worth the effort.

often, the only way forward is through an exit door.