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Quotes About Challenge

No se pueden creer las cosas imposibles! —Será porque no lo has intentado—le dijo la Reina—. Cuando yo tenía tu edad, lo intentaba media hora cada día... A la hora del desayuno a veces ya me había creído seis cosas imposibles.
~ Lewis Carroll
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. - The Queen
~ Lewis Carroll
Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!
~ Lewis Carroll
There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
~ Lewis Carroll
No hay quien crea lo que es imposible. -A mi juicio es que te falta el hábito -dijo la Reina-. Cuando yo tenía tu edad, lo practicaba siempre media hora diaria. A veces, llegué incluso a creer en seis cosas imposibles antes del desayuno.
~ Lewis Carroll
Y no pienso hacer caso de las palabras de los mayores cuando digan: Anda, querida, sube..., te estamos esperando! Yo los miraré desafiante desde abajo y les diré: Antes decidme quién soy, y si me gusta esa persona, entonces subiré, pero si no me gusta me quedaré aquí y esperaré a convertirme en otra persona.
~ Lewis Carroll
But it must be borne in mind that, if there is a Scylla before me, there is also a Charybdis - and that, in my fear of being read as a jest, I may incur the darker destiny of not being read at all.
~ Lewis Carroll
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
~ Lewis Carroll
The character of a 'lunatic' is not, I believe, very difficult to acquire: but it is amazingly difficult to get rid of.
~ Lewis Carroll
When you're older," said the Professor, "you'll know that you can't put Mountains together again so easily!
~ Lewis Carroll
It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! - alice and wonderland
~ Lewis Carroll
It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
~ Lewis Carroll
Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
~ Lewis Grizzard
Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
~ Lewis Grizzard
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
~ Lewis Mumford
Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.
~ Libba Bray
Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.
~ Libba Bray
I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.
~ Libba Bray
I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?
~ Libba Bray
My cholera's acting up again.
~ Libba Bray
You have a steady fella?" Sam asked after a bit. "No fella can hold me for long." Sam gave her a sideways glance. "That a challenge?" "No. A statement of fact.
~ Libba Bray
But how did you fight an enemy who never fought fair? Didn't you have to break the rules to win against the Devil?
~ Libba Bray
Come on, Father. Stop me. Tell me to behave, to go to hell, something, anything.
~ Libba Bray
Miss Moore speaks slowly, deliberately. I know because I read. She pulls back and stands, hands on hips, offering us a challenge. May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
~ Libba Bray