Quotes About Challenge

She was young, healthy, stronger than she'd ever been. And she was in love with him. She'd fallen in love with a man who challenged the world to take him on, sometimes with laughing, boyish enthusiasm and other times as a warrior born and trained to kill. She could do this for him. Would do this for him.

Humans were no end of trouble even before they did anything.

Since it looked like this was going to be my new normal, I might not be using the straightest ruler when it came to measuring crazy.

he wasn't the only one riding a horse that might as well have a sign pinned to its tail that read, MY RIDER IS A STUPID BEGINNER. I'LL HANDLE THIS.

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.

Most of the truly remarkable experiences I've had in theatre have filled me with uncertainty and disorientation

Deep practice is slow, demanding and uncomfortable. To practice deeply is to live deliberately in a space that is uncomfortable but with the encouraging sense that progress can happen.

Leave not thy nest, thy dam and sire, Fly back and sing amidst this choir.

Compare with me, ye women, if you can

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune means an acid test of friendship. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

to carry one's own door will make a person clumsy, tired and strange on the other hand, it may come in useful if you go places that don't have an obvious way in, like normality or an obvious way out, like the classic double bind

But you overlook an important cultural function of games, to test the will of the gods.

then he met Herakles and the kingdoms of his life all shifted down a few notches

I wondered if in even the strongest of marriages there always existed a fault line and it just took one major, earth-shattering disaster to reveal it.

The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as a means of avoiding reality which, if seriously considered, might negate our ability to strive for what might seem impossible.

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

accepting lifts is cheating and I cycled on.

You speak like a heroine,' said Montoni, contemptuously; 'we shall see whether you can suffer like one.

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

She was not engaging in any broad or sweeping challenge when she insisted that her own status be acknowledged as not only "equal" to that of any comparable male scientist, but to be quite indistinguishable as well, because to her the emphasis was solely upon scientist, not upon the adjective. She was not declaring war on behalf of women's rights, but demanding on behalf of science that those who served it be judged solely and wholly upon their abilities.