I’m about to enter a national ass-kicking contest. With no legs. And a massive ass. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus Copy Share Image
Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares? — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing. — Coco Lee Copy Share Image
The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose. — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I just paint to fulfill an urge. When I don't have the urge, I just don't paint. This is not some stupid… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads… — Alan Bleasdale Copy Share Image
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till… — Stephen Johnson Field Copy Share Image
Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a… — Norman Myers Copy Share Image
The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A huge part of the American trans population that's often overlooked are trans teenagers. Many of them are homeless, and those are… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
One thing I've always wondered—why did you enter that bikini contest when you were a teenager?” Her face flushed with a mixture… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? They have consistently refused… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as… — Terence MacSwiney Copy Share Image
And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win. — Thomas Crum Copy Share Image
Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president… — Frankie Avalon Copy Share Image
The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
These have been the most successful years I've ever had. I've been placing well in the contests but more importantly I've been… — Kelly Clark Copy Share Image
The woman of tomorrow will be efficacious, seductive and without contest superior to man. It is for this woman that I conceive… — Paco Rabanne Copy Share Image
LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
