While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering… — George Washington Copy Share Image
History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people. — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every… — Lee Westwood Copy Share Image
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Christians have an important role to play in contending that no human life is "devoid of value." We can do so through… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded… — Hannibal Copy Share Image
Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of hischild's… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace. — Thomas Bradwardine Copy Share Image
It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Two weeks ago at the Greater Glory Gathering Virginia Beach, the Lord spoke to me about contending for a greater outpouring of… — Todd Bentley Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this… — John Burgoyne Copy Share Image
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
