Quotes About Challenge

Living was struggling to do something impossible—to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried!

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol. kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of a simplicity but the life of a multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

Who cares whether the heroine wins if there wasn't any battle?

But easy victories pall after a while. If one always wins, perhaps one is attempting only what is well within one's capabilities—and there lies a kind of death, don't you think? That which does not grow may well be showing the first signs of atrophy.

Like castor oil, he may on some occasions be right, but he is extremely difficult to like.

If she protected him from this one, then how would he be armed or prepared for the next, or the one after that? Without pain, how would he learn compassion? If it were easy, of what value was it?

To be beaten was one thing, to surrender was another—and intolerable.

That it's easy to forgive those you like? That is the test, isn't it…forgiving those you don't like? Especially those who have hurt someone you love. Anyone can do the easy things.

adventure or decision or freedom of any kind.

How did you tell people something they did not want to know? What did you need to say to have them question the bedrock on which their beliefs of themselves were built?

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

Only the impossible can do the impossible.

Kindly go to Hell! (Lestat to Oncle Julien's ghost)

No te vayas al infierno sin presentar batalla

Go ahead, throw this book away. Spit on me. Revile me. I dare you. Cast me out of your intellectual orbit. Throw me out of your backpack. Pitch me in the airport trash bin. Leave me on a bench in Central Park! What do I care? No. I don't want you to do all that. Don't do that. DON'T DO IT!

I reach now for a victim who is not easy for me to overcome: my own past. Perhaps this victim will flee from me with a speed that equals my own. Whatever, I seek now a victim that I have never faced. And there is the thrill of the hunt in it, what the modern world calls investigation.

I don't know how to be bad at being bad.

There are times when one simply cannot say no.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

Acaso creías que podías bailar con el diablo y no pagar un precio por ello?

I have named them the hounds of Sisyphus.

weep when there are no more rules to break?" "Ah, but there are always rules to break.

You have made yourselves an interesting adversary to one who loves challenges, and it will require all of my considerable influence to protect you individually and collectively from the avid lust you have so foolishly aroused.