Contending Quotes

52 quotes by 47 authors

Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems… — Angela Davis
Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to… — Patrick Henry
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes… — Chaim Potok
Pride is self contending with God for preeminence. — Stephen Charnock
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of… — Joseph Lancaster
I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me. — Phil Mickelson
Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you… — Pindar
Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be,… — Laozi
I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week. — Lee Westwood
Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the weaker,-the more vigorous… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to… — George Washington
I have been contending all my life, and always with God. — Lincoln Steffens
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next. — Jones Very
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and,… — Charles Caleb Colton
There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to… — Roger L'Estrange
I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from… — Theodore Roosevelt
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. — Seamus Heaney
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one… — H.G. Wells
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system,… — Douglas Rushkoff
Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove… — William Shakespeare

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