Contend Quotes

147 quotes by 131 authors

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. — Honore de Balzac
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud… — Ambrose Bierce
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that… — Abdallah II
Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the… — Tony Campolo
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. — Tony Campolo
I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America. — Tony Campolo
But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the… — Tony Campolo
I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish… — Tony Campolo
I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The… — Tony Campolo
I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from… — Donald Cargill
I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when… — Donald Cargill
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is… — Angela Carter
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of… — Clive Anderson
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? — Wallace Stevens
And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to… — Parminder Nagra
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon
Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which… — Harry S. Truman
It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you. — John Owen

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