When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to. The reason why these rumors got started… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree. — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
It is important to strengthen the State governments; and as this cannot be done by any change in the Federal Constitution (for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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
Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as… — Bette Ford 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
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
While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition,… — L. Jon Wertheim 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
Winners expect to win before the contest starts; losers don't. Any individual becomes what he or she thinks about most. If you… — Wade Schalles Copy Share Image
It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labor to give no offense, & the other labor to take none.… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
The information on a baby born to Vladimir Putin is false. I am going to ask people who have money to organize… — Dmitry Peskov Copy Share Image
The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In a day and age when there are so many culinary competitions - ranging from contests of taste to those of technique… — Adam Richman 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
Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The Tokyo Dome Big Air contest (in 2003) was my first trip to Japan. I think I won it with a double… — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I am not a contest-enterer by nature. But contests - and their entry fees - are often the main way literary journals… — Celeste Ng 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
The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
I'm lucky. I don't know whether I'm deserving or not. All I know is that I work damn hard for everything. And… — Priyanka Chopra 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 know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To value investors the concept of indexing is at best silly and at worst quite hazardous. Warren Buffett has observed that "in… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly,… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers… — Cyrano de Bergerac 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
![“One of the worst things [Donald Trump] said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman "Miss Piggy." Then he called her "Miss Housekeeping," because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name.” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/009/hillary-clinton-51_beauty_one-of-the-worst-things-donald-trump-sai_2135823.jpg)
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