Quotes About Challenge

It wasn't easy. But if changing the world was easy, everyone would be at it.

No reason to let the edge grow dull, simply because I have run out of enemies. New enemies will present themselves, before too long.

Jurand! Still… Juranding, then???

Don't "but" me, Glokta!' hissed Sult. 'Don't you dare "but" me, not today! You're not half as crippled as you could be! Not half as crippled, you understand?

Damn painted savage stabs himself on the floor of the Open Council, challengess us before the King, and nothing is done! Government by committee! Everyone pulling their own way! You can only react, never prepare!

You can only conquer your fears by facing them. Hide from them, and they conquer you.

Vurms stopped in his tracks. "You wouldn't dare!" Glokta smiled. His most revolting, leering, gap-toothed smile. "You'd have to be a bold man to bet your life on what I'd dare. How bold are you?

If you have a plan," hissed Sumael from the corner of her mouth, "now would be the time." "I have a plan," said Nothing. "Does it involve a sword?" asked Jaud. A pause. "All my plans do." "Do you have a sword?" Another. "No." "How will your plan work without one?" muttered Sumael. A third. "Death waits for us all.

War's ninety-nine parts boredom and, now and then, one part arse-opening terror.

Trouble with the good fight, I find… once

High ideals and reality are like oil and water," muttered Vick. "They don't mix well.

As commander of a battalion his trade had been to fight the enemy with steel. As a staff officer, it seemed, his role was to fight his own side with paper, more secretary than soldier. He felt like a man trying to push a huge stone up a hill. Straining and straining, getting nowhere, but unable to stop pushing in case the rock should fall and crush him. Meanwhile, arrogant bastards who were in just the same danger lazed on the slopes beside him saying, "Well, it's not my rock.

But a man shows his quality when circumstances are against him,

A veces lo mejor que puede hacerse con el peligro es correr hacia él

Trouble with the good fight, I find... once the fight starts, the good stops.

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Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky What Freedom Looks Like The point of the shovel bit into the ground with the sharp scrape of metal on earth.

Desperation bakes heroes from the most rotten flour,

but it's better to do it—' 'Than to live with the fear of it.

But a man shows his quality when circumstances are against him, his father always used to say. Where was the glory in easy victories?

I have to fight fire with fire.' 'That'll win you naught but ashes,

It could give you some tough moments, your word. Could force you into places you didn't want to be, could serve you up puzzles where the right path weren't easy to pick. But it wasn't mean to be easy, it was meant to be right. There were many men always did the easy thing, regardless.

The universal law is that the most frustrating thing will always happen, no matter how unlikely.

Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.