Quotes About Challenge

Every thing appears terrible even to the bold, when his foot shall pass across a hostile country.

They'd taught him how to milk cows,and now they expected him to tame lions.

The fucked thing," Doc Bryan says, "is the men we've been fighting probably came here for the same reasons we did, to test themselves, to feel what war is like. In my view it doesn't matter if you oppose or support war. The machine goes on." 

Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs Ape.

My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chivvy you out like an old st-t-toat.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along; he must offer some little opposition.

Most of my day is spent dealing with pathetic people of confused nationality seeking to escape the horrors of liberation.

But how do you know He *doesn't* want us to have it—the cross, I mean? I bet He's just waiting for one of us to go and find it—just at this moment when it's most needed. Just at this moment when everyone is forgetting it and chattering about the hypostatic union, there's a solid chunk of wood waiting for them to have their silly heads knocked against. I'm going off to find it

Well, it'll be a long war. There'll be fun for us all in the end.

Trata-se de uma aventura, não de um pacote de férias. E as aventuras não são aventuras se não houver um certo grau de perigo e incerteza.

In his pursuit of economic modernization, Deng liked to say that he was groping for stones as he crossed the river.

I'm sharing the fate of the women of my time who challenged men to battle

Why are all the exciting things so uncomfortable

Why are all the exciting things so uncomfortable? Like fighting and exploring and skiing in Canada?

Say stupid shit. Barf out the fucking-around-o-maniacal schizo flow. Barter whatever for whoever wants to read it.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

Così continuamo a remare, barche contro corrente, risospinti senza posa nel passato.

And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.

The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger-

He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

It's so hard to find a male to gratify one's artistic tastes.