Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I suppose I have been contending with issues surrounding my safety and security for years. — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me. — Phil Mickelson Copy Share Image
I don't spend a lot of time contending with the fact that time is not endless. — Tessa Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life. — J. C. Ryle 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
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect… — Thomas Paine 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
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
Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
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
When God gives a promise, He always tries our faith. Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society,… — Joseph Lancaster 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
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
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams 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
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
Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not… — Pope Pius XII 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 fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long… — Patrick Henry 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
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Not even when everything was on top of him, not even when giving everyone what they needed from him at the factory… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next. — Jones Very Copy Share Image
“Contending must be understood and exercised as an act of mercy toward those who doubt and those who have been deceied, regardless… — Aaron Armstrong 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
Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne 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
I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
