Quotes About Challenges

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

Life begins at fifty but so does bad eyesight arthritis and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same listeners.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.

Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier.

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

you're too pretty for your own good, maybe. It could get you an early start on a miserable life.

It was as though I knew without exactly knowing, or felt, or smelled in the air, the already accomplished fact that nothing would ever be simple for me again. I never again would be able to put my life in a box and carry it away.

That's the parent's lot! We bring these delightful creatures into the world—eagerly, happily—and then before long they are spying upon and judging us, rarely favourably. Having children is our fondest wish but, in doing so, we breed our acutest critics. It is a preposterous situation—but entirely of our own making." Susan

As far as the Wagners were concerned, Kaye would just disappear. Within a month she would become another statistic, one of thousands of teenagers who walk out on their families every year.

This time, there was the ghost of a reptile in Szatson's smile. 'I don't handle little problems.

One has sufficient enemies amongst men without deliberately seeking out others amongst the gods.

Devo manter meu coração cheio de amor hoje pois de que outra maneira poderei suportar mais este dia?

Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed.

We were not a happy couple, and not a miserable couple. We were six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. How it was I don't understand, but we always seemed to be getting, with the best of motives, in one another's way. When I wanted to go upstairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it.