Contest Quotes
345 quotes by 302 authors
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You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
— Rowan Atkinson
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil…
— Samuel Adams
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
— Benazir Bhutto
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
— Benazir Bhutto
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who…
— Tammy Bruce
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The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the…
— Steven Brust
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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger…
— William Jennings Bryan
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
— Lord Byron
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We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station…
— Tommy Chong
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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.
— Eric Clapton
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
— Seneca the Younger
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for…
— Sam Houston
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present…
— George Washington
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International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men…
— J. William Fulbright
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When you have kids, there's no such thing as quality time. There's just time. There's no, 'Ooh, his graduation's better than going to the mall.'…
— Chris Rock
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At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if…
— Dorian Yates
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I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest. Then I'm proud.…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we…
— Patrick Henry
Who Wrote These Contest Quotes
302 authors contributed a total of 345 Contest Quotes, led by these top contributors: