Quotes About Challenge

And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Ha!----in their stead, their hunter sons! Ha, ha! they are on me----they hunt in a ring! Keep off! I brave you all at once, I throw off your eyes like snakes that sting! You have killed the black eagle at nest, I think: Did you ever stand still in your triumph, and shrink From the stroke of her wounded wing?

It is but two days ago since I had a letter — and not from a fanatic — to reproach my poetry for not being Christian enough, and this is not the first instance, nor the second, of my receiving such a reproach. I tell you this to open to you the possibility of another side to the question, which makes, you see, a triangle of it!

There is great injustice everywhere and a rankling party-spirit, and to speak the truth and act it appears still more difficult than usual.

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

A woman in the West? You show me one who doesn't drink, and I'll show you one that wants to.

Anger is an inoculant. It gets your immune system working against bullshit.

The force of will to defy Richard Baines and wrest his own greatest sorcery away from him? I can't even best the man in a verbal jousting match? What think I that I can take control of a sorcery in which I am only the catalyst, the sacrifice?

Kusanagi-Jones had only one idea, and it involved doing something he hadn't willingly done in his adult life.

The wall stood firm behind him; his hands flattened on the stones, but they gave him no purchase and less strength.

I wonder how many species break their planets getting off them.

Bad enough to be here, doing this. Worse to have to stop and think about it.

Will lifted his chin to catch Murchaud's gaze, thinking when did I grow so comfortable, challenging Princes?

Whatever confidence came to her when she gripped a knife didn't serve her here.

Two can play at Salisbury's game.

I don't want to think what might have Col. Frederick Valens running scared.

Ah, hell. And this ship has kids onboard. Kids not much older than Leah. Kids the same age I was when I signed in on to this man's army.

Swing hard; follow through to the other side of whatever you are swinging at. Zanya Farweather had been swinging at my soul.

Hey, it's my job to climb into questionable machines.

Is this Morgan's game, or the Merlin's test?

I'd changed my gown for trousers and a chain haulberk, and I had a silver sword I hadn't the faintest idea how to use strapped to the saddle that Whiskey had grudgingly accepted.

Rilriltok had apparently not expected to report to work and discover an enormous natural enemy next to its desk.

Jenny Casey, you've skewered the pooch this time.