Quotes About Challenge

Hence for a long time now it has been assumed that there can be no authentic creation in the sphere of high art which is not in some way a 'challenge' to the complacencies of our public culture. Art must give offence, stepping out of the future fully armed against the bourgeois taste for the conforming and the comfortable, which are simply other names for kitsch and cliché. But the result of this is that offence becomes a cliché.

Trouble can be purchased cheaply, though the refund may be more than you can bear.

We all fall but do not all crawl.

What an enormous chutzpah you possess, I told him. What makes you better than the rest of us, and more fit to rule? The fact that I was able to occupy the throne, he replied. Try and take it.

Good Morning. You're in trouble.

All right. You wanted me," I stated, "and now you have me, heaven help you.

Acquit yourself as well as I have-bastard!

Kroon ei muuda selle kandjat automaatselt pistodakindlaks. [Merlin] Aga pärija tuleb võimule suure hulga paha pagasiga. [Suhuy]

The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake

Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize...

It is not a question of crime and punishment -- it is problem and solution.

I want to be both pathetic and admirable, I want to be at the same time a child and an adult. Thereby I gamble, I take a risk: for it is always possible that the other will simply ask no question whatever about these unaccustomed glasses; that the other will see, in the fact, no sign.

A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.

My claim is to live to the full contradiction of my time

Men, as Amundsen liked to say, are the unknown factor in the Antarctic.

The other side of that coin, which Nansen found hard to fathom, was that someone like Shackleton was only true to himself when improvising; fighting against the odds. He would wither in the face of systematic preparation, and only in a crisis did he come into his own.

having an adventure is sometimes just a matter of going out and allowing things to happen in a strange and amazing new environment—not so much a physical challenge as a psychic one.

you should view each new travel frustration—sickness, fear, loneliness, boredom, conflict—as just another curious facet in the vagabonding adventure.

Finally, he flung his hat on the ground in disgust and fumed, "Are these the men with whom I am to defend America?

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

He saw too clearly that greater freedom could lead to greater disorder and, by a dangerous dialectic, back to a loss of freedom. Hamilton's lifelong task was to try to straddle and resolve this contradiction and to balance liberty and order. The

Mills lashed out at Barbot as "an impertinent puppy"—the sort of fighting words that prompted duels.

Since Coster's death the year before, Bacon knew he was in over his head and reeled under the responsibility. "My

When rebuffed by a bank officer for a loan, he shot back in anger, "Some day I'll be the richest man in the world.