Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pema Chodron

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

Peter Russell

We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake.

Pedro Martinez

I like the challenge. I do not like the attention.

Pedro Almodovar

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.

Puff Daddy

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

Maggie Stiefvater

Do you know how to wrap a leg?" "I was born wrapping legs," I say stiffly, because I'm insulted. "Must've been a challenging delivery," Sean notes....

Greg Abbott

If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution.

Greg Behrendt

Life's biggest rewards come from the biggest challenges

John Lithgow

The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.

Justin Timberlake

You're not meant to do what's easy, you're meant to challenge yourself.

Joyce Meyer

If you refuse to be happy until you have no problems or challenges, you will probably never be happy!

Karen Kain

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

Joseph Fiennes

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

Leigh Steinberg

Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.

Lawrence Summers

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

Laura Wilkinson

I love overcoming challenges and fear.

Laura Vandervoort

The performances make you want to get back out there and try something new and challenge yourself.

Landon Donovan

I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We have a new challenge.

Kyle Chandler

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being

Julie Powell

Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.

Patrick Swayze

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

Martin Mull

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.

Marilyn Hacker

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

Nick Bostrom

The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced. And-whether we succeed or fail-it is probably the last challenge we will ever face.

Nancy Gibbs

The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.

Paul Pierce

I look for challenges to keep me going.

Paul Farmer

At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

Paul Farmer

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

Mary J. Blige

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.

Mark Hanna

The Bf 109 is, without doubt, the most satisfying and challenging aircraft that I have ever flown.

Oswald Chambers

If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

Paul Ryan

Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.