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Contest Quotes
When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. - Dwight D Eisenhower Quotes
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators. - Joseph Barbera Quotes
It was done entirely in green crayon and it was for a contest at my school to see what kid could write and illustrate the best kids book. - William Joyce Quotes
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. - Lord Byron Quotes
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news. - Adlai E Stevenson Quotes
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. - William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
It was a hole in one contest and I had a three. - Abe Lemons Quotes
Following the strike, I think the thing that brought people back to baseball was the big home run contest between Sosa and McGwire. - Stephen F Lynch Quotes
Surely these women wont lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that. - Rose Schneiderman Quotes
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. - Ishmael Reed Quotes
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home. - Leslie Banks Quotes
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification. - Michael Servetus Quotes
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce Quotes
I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania. - Sharon Stone Quotes
I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest. - Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. - William Jennings Bryan Quotes
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. - Benazir Bhutto Quotes
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. - Warren E Burger Quotes
The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book. - Leslie Banks Quotes
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. - Norman Mailer Quotes
The contest took place at Dexter Park, before a vast crowd of spectators, the majority of whom looked to see the Nationals have almost a walk-over. - Henry Chadwick Quotes
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. - Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. - P J Orourke Quotes
We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out. - Tommy Chong Quotes
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. - Benazir Bhutto Quotes
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. - George Eliot Quotes
Whos judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest! - Chris Rock Quotes
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. - Daniel Webster Quotes
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