Quotes About Challenge

I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.

In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There were powers abroad in earlier days which no courage and no mechanism of his could have met. What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose tonight? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you.

My mind rebels at stagnation.

I have come for advice. That is easily got. And help. That is not always so easy.

Never mind, he answered; and, slinging his weapon over his shoulder, strode off down the gorge and so away into the heart of the mountain to the haunts of the wild beasts. Amongst them all there was none so fierce and so dangerous as himself.

It is not easy to express the inexpressible, he answered with a laugh.

Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet.

I play the game for the game's own sake

She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.

Pinner. 'Thank you very much,' said he; 'I fear that I underrated the difficulty of the task. This list will be of very material assistance to me.' 'It took some time,' said I.

I assure you that I little thought when I left my professional chair in London that it was for the purpose of heading a raid of savages upon a colony of anthropoid apes.

I'm afraid, said Holmes, smiling, that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

Come, Watson, come! he cried. The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!

Mon esprit est rebelle à toute inaction. Fournissez moi des problèmes,donnez moi du travail ...et la je suis dans mon élément.Je peux alors me passer de stimulants artificiels. Mais j'abhorre la morne routine de l'existence.J'ai un besoin impérieux d'excitation mentale.C'est pour cela que j'exerce cette profession si particulière, ou plutot que je l'ai crée car je suis le seul au monde

My mind, he said, rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.

Think Snake Plissken. You know…Escape From New York? You do this job, and if you don't fuck it up, we let you live. (Joe) Yeah, I've seen that movie. At the end they try to kill him anyway. (Steele) Good, then you're already acquainted with our methods. Saves me a lot of training time and you a low of surprises. (Joe)

Time had a grudge against her.' – Evalle

I vote, I challenge Bathymaasy and we shoot arrows at you dearest brother. Artemis Set and Bathymaas laughed. Apollo, not so much.

I don't want to hurt you, Dar. Either get out of my way or I'm going through you. Xev

It was hard to be human. Hell, it was hard to live at all. Life was definitely not for the meek. Everytime something seemed to go right, at least 3 or 4 things had to go wrong. It was just the law of nature.

Life is ever a complicated symphony of catastrophes. Ever seeking to lay us low and lift us higher.