Quotes About Challenges

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous.

I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

There have been times when our career is uncertain, the film industry can be beautiful and judgmental at the same time. There are times when I thought of staying back and giving up.

There are so many people who are trying their luck in films and only a few of those actors get to do films and choose to be an actor. The stakes are always high here. It's hard in the sense that it's very uncertain.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

It's Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace.

We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

There's never any guarantee at war.