Quotes About Challenge

I am like a blind pig when I work.

It was an hour before the first shark hit him.

But, then, nothing is easy.

He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fish's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side, his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff and started to pass the boat, long, deep, wide, silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water.

But walking down the stairs feeling each stair carefully and holding to the banister he thought, I must get her away and get her away as soon as I can without hurting her. Because I am not doing too well at this. That I can promise you. But what else can you do? Nothing, he thought. There's nothing you can do. But maybe, as you go along, you will get good at it.

Anything was better than Ezra learning to play the bassoon...

Although it is unjust, he thought. But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.

Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky, he thought.

I even read aloud the part of the novel that I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him as a writer than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.

That's two dollars and a half. Who can we borrow that from?" "That's easy. I can always borrow two dollars and a half.

No one lives his whole life besides toreadors.

You're feeling it now, fish, he said. And so, God knows, am I.

The punishment of the hook is nothing. The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything. Rest now, old man, and let him work until your next duty comes.

Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run. If I were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.

He was eighteen feet from nose to tail, the fisherman who was measuring him called.

There is a time to break all your rules. Maybe not all.

a brave man is always frightened three times by a lion; when he first sees his track, when he first hears him roar and when he first confronts him.

Nick did not want to go in there now. He felt a reaction against deep wading with the water deepening up under his armpits, to hook big trout in places impossible to land them. In the swamp the banks were bare, the big cedars came together overhead, the sun did not come through, except in patches; in the fast deep water, in the half light, the fishing would be tragic. In the swamp fishing was a tragic adventure. Nick did not want it. He did not want to go down the stream any farther today. He

You ask for the impossible. You ask for the ruddy impossible. So if you love this girl as much as you say you do, you had better lover her very hard and make up in intensity what the relation will lack in duration and continuity.

To worry was as bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult. He

De az okos embernek néha be kell rúgnia, hogy kibírja a bolondok között.