Given the daunting challenges that we face, it’s important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one. – Valerie Jarrett
To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months. – William H. McRaven
I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century. – Sanford I. Weill
My childhood had its challenges, like everyone’s. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined. – Sam Taylor-Wood
Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges. – Sonia Levitin
To be very honest, I cannot drape a saree myself. I have never draped one on my own, ever. But it has been done on me so many times, that now I have memorised all the steps, and if someone challenges me, I will surely be able to do it. – Sonakshi Sinha
Once boys’ and men’s challenges are clear, the question ‘why now’ quickly becomes ‘why didn’t we see this sooner?’ The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. – Warren Farrell
I have recently taken on two major challenges: running the CHC BOLD PAC and serving Los Angeles as our voice on the Energy and Commerce Committee. – Tony Cardenas
Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them. – Victor Pinchuk
Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism. – Zhou Yongkang
Everybody has their challenges; I couldn’t say that we have more challenges than other people, they’re just different. – Tracy Pollan
There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn’t able to do. – Shawn Wayans
One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices. – Susanna Kearsley
It’s hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility. – Ted Deutch
But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it’s beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. – Tony Blair
So yeah, but from the show and as far as MTV I have a lot of friends, and from the challenges and the other shows, that I’ve met. I currently don’t have any enemies that I know of. – Trishelle Cannatella
I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things. – Tamron Hall
When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you’re capable of. I liked those kind of challenges. – Willem Dafoe
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. – Stanislav Grof
Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone. – Shashi Tharoor
HB2 discriminates against fellow citizens because of who they are. This law directly challenges the legitimacy of the identity of transgender persons and then compels them to deny it every time they use a public restroom. – Ted Olson
I think if you exercise, your state of mind – my state of mind – is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem. – Stone Gossard
Certainly in my appetite for more challenges, it’s very much alive. I love comedy and it comes to me in a natural way. – Shawn Levy
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. – Thurgood Marshall
I have seen countless colleagues struggle to come to terms with retirement. I learned a lot from Richard Dunwoody when he was riding, and I completely understand why he took off and undertook what most people consider mad challenges. – Tony McCoy
You’re a hero one day, you’re a villain another day. They say that’s football. When a manager does well, they’re applauded, when they don’t do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it – for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges. – Vincent Tan