Quotes About Challenge

Every second, walking those two hundred meters, is like leaping into very cold water, in that first instant when the body goes into shock, and everything you are, everything you call your life, disintegrates for an instant, and all you have around you is the water and the cold, your heart trying to send splinters through a block of ice.

A failure is not a reason to stop. It's a reason to start again, and harder.

Presumably a storm did overtake Octavius, for he apparently suffered a shipwreck before reaching his destination.

Caesar remarked wryly: "I have often fought for victory, but on this occasion I fought for my life as well.

it must sail away as soon as possible, even if doing so meant risking battle with Sextus.

When things are as bad as they can be, fate finds a way to deliver another blow.

So the issue came down to whether plotting to commit treason could be equated with the act of treason itself. Cato was in no doubt that this was so, but he was arguing in the heat of the moment. In the final analysis, he and the other Senators were behaving not as legal experts but as politicians forced to come to a quick decision in an emergency. Nobody at the time challenged their right to do so.

Treaty or no treaty, here was an opportunity to dispose of Sextus.

Another dark night of traveling through mountains ensued—and, surely, a dark night of the soul

this was the worst crisis of Octavian's career.

Resistance to change has been strong.

It was about growing in more efficient ways. That seemed like a reasonable idea. Why would it meet with such fierce resistance?

A real king's life is perhaps a hard one; but a pretended king's is, I warrant, much harder.

Do you realise how much trouble you're in?" "Perhaps I'll have some Weetabix after all.

Then why don't you go and ---- yourself.

We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.

If you think it's hard getting in, you should try getting out.

There are some relationships that succeed only because they are impossible, that actually need unhappiness to continue.

Give him his due: this is a man who has always faced his fears square on, whether they be a deadly swamp adder, a hideous poison that might drive you to insanity or a hell-hound set loose on the moors. Holmes has done many things that are, frankly, baffling – but he has never run away.

These people...I've never come across anyone like them. You want the truth? They make Scorpia look like a vicar's tea party.

Try to Kill the Children!

Charles le Mesurier was quite a formidable opponent and he wouldn't have hesitated to bring the full force of the law against us if we'd crossed the line.

subverting the status quo again.

He got you pregnant just when your career was about to take off.