To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Anyone can win a slam-dunk contest. The real Superman is dead. He was assassinated by Pat Riley. I'm the Big Cactus now… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture. — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
Damn! This flight attendant treating us like we won these first class tickets in a contest. — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ... — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're… — Emily Lazar Copy Share Image
There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option. — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is very, very hard to do that ballroom dancing and I am going to be nowhere near it. Now if you… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality.… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The… — James Frey Copy Share Image
We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word .… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Amritsar is the place where my work and action speaks for itself. Since, I started contesting elections from this holy place, I… — Navjot Singh Sidhu Copy Share Image
I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
One of the worst things [Donald Trump] said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The Bible indicates that for three days, Jesus went into the very depths of hell. Right into the enemy's own territory. And… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm needs to be effective enthusiasm. We must distinguish between the contribution and enthusiasm of the cheerleader and the enthusiasm of the… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
It may be quite true that some negroes are better than some white men; but no rational man, cognisant of the facts,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Hell, I'd even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed by petty bickering. Railing about… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I’ve chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
It's almost like my career has been [based on voting]. I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans… — Stacy Keibler Copy Share Image
When you have kids, there's no such thing as quality time. There's just time. There's no, 'Ooh, his graduation's better than going… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
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