International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.
~By John Corigliano ~
Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.
~By Tim Page ~
The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.
~By Ty Cobb ~
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
~By Ed Harris ~
O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.
~By Gabriel Byrne ~
Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.
~By Jonathan Kellerman ~
The specifics of Cathy?s and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
~By Donna Karan ~
To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.
~By Alfred Molina ~
Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
~By Marcel Proust ~
People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
~By Abbe Pierre ~
I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the bottom of this. But it is really up to you and your staff, on behalf of the American people, to take on that challenge.
~By David Kay ~
The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.
~By William Hedgcock Webster ~
I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
~By Talib Kweli ~
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
~By Graham Greene ~
I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.
~By Blair Underwood ~
I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.
~By Sarah Polley ~
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.
~By Jenna Elfman ~
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge.
~By Michael Ritchie ~
We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.
~By Tom Daschle ~
Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
~By George S. Patton ~
I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
~By Dustin Hoffman ~
The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.
~By Jonathan Dimbleby ~
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.
~By John M. Ford ~
And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
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.
~By Martin Mull ~
The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
~By Warren Spahn ~
You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.
~By Julie Bishop ~
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
~By Carol Gilligan ~
Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.
~By Robert Menendez ~
On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
~By Karen Kain ~
The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.
~By Willie Mays ~
I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.
~By Melissa Bean ~
I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
~By Vera Wang ~
When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.
~By John Sexton ~
In sum, as we enter the 21st century, the Euro-Atlantic community - North America and Europe together - has to face some tough challenges when it comes to improving our capability.
~By Lord Robertson ~
I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.
~By Peter Arnett ~
As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.
~By Amy Smart ~
I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.
~By Claus von Stauffenberg ~
But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
~By Esther Dyson ~
Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.
~By John Hoeven ~
During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is always a challenge.
~By Jeanne Kohl Welles ~
The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.
~By Jerry Costello ~
Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.
~By Michael Bay ~
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.
~By Lou Brock ~
You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and this is the time to go home and seek a new challenge.
~By Jerry Kleczka ~
Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
~By Joyce A. Myers ~
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.
~By Richard Burr ~
We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.
~By Gerry Adams ~
I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
~By Sally Ride ~
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
~By Bob Barr ~
I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.
~By Joseph Fiennes ~
While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars.
~By Michael Crapo ~
To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.
~By Josephus Daniels ~
The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.
~By Charles Rangel ~
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.
~By Pedro Almodovar ~
Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.
~By Malcolm Fraser ~
The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.
~By David Wilkerson ~
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
~By Cicely Tyson ~
I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.
~By Anne Perry ~
We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
~By Barack Obama ~
In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.
~By Jim Costa ~
One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.
~By Rod Blagojevich ~
My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.
~By Catie Curtis ~
Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.
~By Tom Daschle ~
We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view.
~By John M. McHugh ~
I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.
~By David Wilkerson ~
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
~By Boris Johnson ~
Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
~By Linda Chavez ~
You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
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.
~By Paul Ryan ~
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
~By Wayne Allard ~
I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.
~By Christine Lahti ~
I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts.
~By Bill Bruford ~
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something that depended not only on the three-month interest rate, but on other interest rates as well.
~By John Hull ~
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