Responding To Challenge Quotes

#1. Can that be a delusion which makes us happy?

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#2. I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.

Marion Dane Bauer

#3. If we forget our story we were doomed to repeat it

Heather Nelson

#4. During an interview, former President George W. Bush discussed his painting hobby and said, 'Never paint your wife or your mother.' Then he added, 'Because it's almost impossible to get the paint out of their hair.'

Jimmy Fallon

#5. I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school.

Laurence Yep

#6. No matter how dilapidated, scarred and mutilated your body, I have always found you beautiful, for it is the soul beneath I seek.

Susan Barker

#7. Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#8. Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

Iris Murdoch

#9. Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

Hayao Miyazaki

#10. True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

Kent McCord

#11. Responding to the challenge of climate change is the ultimate political test for our generation ... Our package not only responds to this challenge, but ... is an opportunity that should create thousands of new businesses and millions of jobs in Europe.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#12. Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

Oscar Wilde

#13. What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

Yoweri Museveni

#14. What persons are by starts they are by nature.

Laurence Sterne

#15. The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory.

George Steiner