You have to believe in what you are saying. Maybe they will like it or not but they cannot contest that what… — Jean-Christophe Maillot 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
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our… — Florence Griffith Joyner Copy Share Image
Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
My family has always gone to church. I like to think that faith has been a part of my life since I… — Nick Goepper Copy Share Image
To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Every political contest is hard, that's part of the DNA in America. We make it really tough to run for and hold… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I… — L. David Mech Copy Share Image
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest,… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I'm past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I'd win is the… — Brian MacLearn Copy Share Image
It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Either one is factually equal, and consequently morally equal as well; on the other hand, if one is morally equal, there is… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used… — Sam Donaldson Copy Share Image
I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
If [the Packers] can protect Aaron Rodgers and allow him to throw the ball down the field this game will not even… — Marshall Faulk Copy Share Image
For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Contests were so pertinent that you had to think that way but today, it's not like that. You have your contest skaters,… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all… — Pink Copy Share Image
As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and… — Jubal Early Copy Share Image
Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?" I asked Mrs. Davis. "I should think not," she said calmly, "although I suppose… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image