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Quotes About Challenge

The Mebd was playing a game. If she was breathing, she was playing games.
~ Elizabeth Bear
As blatant a declaration of intent as a wolf could make without a challenge snarled.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I couldn't hold a thought. I couldn't accomplish a task without being distracted. And I couldn't keep my temper at all.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She was ten months ahead of the curriculum and still bored.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Anything that Jack and Abby Irene could not manage together might just as likely be too much for Sebastien.
~ Elizabeth Bear
People like Farweather, unconstrained, create conditions so awful that people eventually decided to change themselves rather than keep living-than way.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I must discern how I may invade the Tower of London, from which I have myself only recently escaped.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She understood that she was being tested, but she did not know the nature of the test.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Fortunately, in partial gravity, one-handed push-ups aren't as hard as they are planet-side.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The quarry lies ahead, the pack lies behind; the grass and gravel and tramped earth lie steady beneath his feet.
~ Elizabeth Bear
You're going to get fired by the Synarche before they even really hire you, if you keep up this line of thinking." He laughed his light machine laugh. "This line of thinking is why they want me, Haimey.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She didn't know how close to the heresy of the Go-Backs she trod.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It was no other than he had expected, but he could play out the game.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Let's stop adding v and just keep going, and try to think of a solution before we become an ironic footnote to salvage tug history, shall we?
~ Elizabeth Bear
If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.
~ Elizabeth Berg
So even though, to the outside world, Claire Willoughby was Simple Pleasures, Inc., Claire knew she was actually little more than window dressing for the business. Truth be told, she was so organizationally challenged, she couldn't arrange her own underwear drawer, let alone tell people how to arrange their lives.
~ Elizabeth Bevarly
But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, "I must not fall. The spangled sea below wants me to fall. It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Fyodor Dostoevsky: "Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.
~ Elizabeth Blackburn
None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.
~ Elizabeth Blackwell
By the way, I've decided there's no such thing as a simple life. It's futile to even pursue one.
~ Elizabeth Brundage
You're dangerous."he says. Why?" Because you make me believe in the impossible." — Simone Elkeles (Rules of Attraction)
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Better the robes of a magnate and the hauberk of a warrior than to grow stale for want of challenges.
~ Elizabeth Chadwick