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challenged

«It's a new era at Disney. From now on, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be known as Person of No Color and the Seven Vertically Challenged Individuals.»
«Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.»
«The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves»
Author: Rachel Carson | About: Race | Keywords: challenged, demonstrate, mastery
«When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.»
«A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.»
«Are we simply romantically challenged, or are we sluts?»
«The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain -- he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem -- he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.»
«If I thought he'd been valiant and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him.»
«It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of Socialism»