Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas S. Monson

Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.

Thomas S. Monson

The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.

Robert Montgomery

The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.

Viswanathan Anand

I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.

Saul Williams

If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else.

Sarah Churchwell

Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.

Sarah Dessen

I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.

Rooney Mara

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge

Roger Ebert

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

Roger Ebert

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.

Robert Zoellick

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

Robert Loggia

When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge.

Satoru Iwata

If you do the same thing as others, it will wear you out. Nintendo is not good at competing so we always have to challenge the status quo by making something new, rather than competing in an existing market.

Sarah MacLean

You plan to be a challenge, do you?" Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent.

Sara Ramirez

I love challenging the status quo.

Sarah Polley

I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.

Robert Barry

I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.

Tori Amos

I don't allow challenges to trip me up.

Tori Amos

If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.

Vera Wang

It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging.

Venus Williams

Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

Vikas Swarup

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

Rufus Wainwright

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

Rufus Wainwright

Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge.

Rod Blagojevich

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

Robertson Davies

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.

Walter Cronkite

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

Wentworth Miller

Everyone has their challenges.

Wallis Simpson

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

Wallace Stevens

One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.

Salman Rushdie

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

Wesley Snipes

Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.

Wayne Dyer

When you're an orphan, you don't wake up every day and tell yourself, "I'm an orphan again today. Why did this happen to me?" You just get on with your life. I've had other challenges that were much greater than that.