Quotes About Challenge

archery is still a matter of life and death to the extent that it is a contest of the archer with himself;

So it is that once a person has settled on the question as to what is wrong, the choice of cures is limited.

in questo seguitare una muraglia che ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia

You have navigated with raging soul far from the paternal home, passing beyond the seas' double rocks and now you inhabit a foreign land.

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Philip had warned the Spartans that if he brought his armies successfully into their territory he would destroy their cities and kill all their people. They replied, rather magnificently, with the single word 'If'.

find some opportunity within the "disaster".

I'm about to jump off the cliff of anxiety mountain.

We all have to face some kind of adversity.

He's trying to assert his authority by calling me onto the carpet. It's a show of force. It's weak.

You can try hitting that reset button, but all it's going to do is change the names of the players, not their actions.

the only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. arthur c. clark

Made you break character, asshole.

Authority." I say the word as if it's a foreign expression I've heard for the very first time. "What about me makes you think that's a word I care for or yield to?

Good science requires having your ideas challenged, and that's often difficult for the people whose paychecks you sign.

These creatures are opportunistic cowards, afraid to take on something larger than them.

When things get bad, the trouble comes to the surface.

I'm going to play,' says Armand, lacing his fingers and cracking the knuckles. 'A pair of these lads can pump for me.' 'Is this a time for playing?' asks Jean Baptiste. Then, 'You are right. You have never been more so.

I was going to say I don't like to cheat anyone. I almost said it wasn't in my DNA, but I hesitated. It suddenly occurred to me that one major transgression affects every small indiscretion you might contemplate and makes it seem less important and too little to challenge your conscience. It's not a license to steal exactly, but everything, no matter how contradictory to who and what you were before, suddenly becomes insignificant.

I never saved anything for the swim back.

What's the problem? In a nutshell?" "I'm a medical specialist. We don't really do nutshells[.]

This is no time for ease and comfort,' he said in reference to the extension of rationing. 'It is the time to dare and endure.

When General Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, who was in charge at Saint-Omer (77 letters) reported that it was impossible to embark the entire force in twenty-four hours, Napoleon expostulated, 'Impossible, sir! I am not acquainted with the word; it is not in the French language, erase it from your dictionary.