Quotes About Challenge

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

The status quo sucks.

I wanted to get a job as a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an opening.

Fuck rational thought

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

My motto: Fuck Hope!

Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity

But it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

I thought it was all over with me, and there was nothing to try for–only things to endure.

When a conversation has taken a wrong turn for us, we only get farther and farther into the swamp of awkwardness.

Yes, but not my style of woman: I like a woman who lays herself out a little more to please us. There should be a little filigree about a woman--something of the coquette. A man likes a sort of challenge. The more of a dead set she makes at you the better.

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food—it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

Her imagination was not easily acted on, but she could not help thinking that her case was a hard one, since it appeared that other people thought it hard.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight - that, in fact, you are exploring a closed basin.

The Vicar did feel then as if his share of duties would be easy. But Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly — something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

But Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly—something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us and who breaks his leg within our gates.

And a man who speaks effectively through music is compelled to something more difficult than parliamentary eloquence.

Hetty's mind was oppressed at that moment with a worse difficulty than poor Lisbeth's ways; she could not care about them.

it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.