Contend Quotes

147 quotes by 131 authors

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things… — Aimee Mann
Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas… — Socrates
I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful. — Lance Burton
One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time.… — Emanuel Cleaver
I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to… — William Stafford
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled… — Robert Novak
When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. — Baltasar Gracian
I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those. — Zooey Deschanel
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species,… — Charles Dickens
I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features. — Marie Dressler
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is… — Thomas Hobbes
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have… — Jean Kerr
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without… — Allen Klein
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of… — Franz Liszt
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and… — Martin Luther
I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry… — Ian MacKaye
While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with… — Josh McDowell
Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with. — Steven Pinker

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