Quotes About Challenge

This Palamon answered, "I do agree." And, thus, did they part till the morrow, when each of them had pledged upon his faith to return. Oh, Cupid, who knows no Charity! Oh, Monarch, who reigns alone! Truly is it said that neither Love nor Lordship will willingly brook any challenge, as full well have Arcita and Palamon found.

For Solomon says, 'He who loves peril shall be vanquished by peril.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.

Making Life means making trouble

if there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do

Getting over an unfavorable impression is ever so much easier than living up to an ideal.

it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on making them think in order to bring them to conviction of sin. If you don't like my preaching you must lump it. I really cannot help it. In the preface to my Plays for Puritans I

HECTOR Well, I don't mean to be drowned like a rat in a trap. I still have the will to live. What am I to do? CAPT. SHOTOVER Do? Nothing simpler. Learn your business as an Englishman. HECTOR And what may my business as an Englishman be, pray? CAPT. SHOTOVER Navigation. Learn it and live; or leave it and be damned.

There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion

Weak people want to marry strong people who do not frighten them too much; and this often leads them to make the mistake we describe metaphorically as "biting off more than they can chew.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves. That´s why all progress depends on unreasonable men.

Banyak orang mengeluh tentang problem-problem yang selalu menghadang mereka untuk mencapai kesuksesan. Tetapi aku tidak percaya akan adanya problem-problem didunia ini justru yang mencari-cari problem yang mereka inginkan, dan bila tidak mereka temukan, mereka menciptakan problem-problem itu

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life

All truths begin as blasphemies.

Dans la vie, il y a deux catégories d'individus : Ceux qui regardent le monde tel qu'il est et se demandent pourquoi. Ceux qui imaginent le monde tel qu'il devrait être et qui se disent : pourquoi pas ?

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Para todo problema complejo hay una solución simple y equivocada.

It's never just a game when you're winning.