Contest Quotes
345 quotes by 294 authors
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People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing…
— Don Murray
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I had a clear vision of myself winning the Mr. Universe contest. It was a very spiritual thing, in a way, because I had such…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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If we will be true and faithful to our principles, committed to a life of honesty and integrity, then no king or contest or fiery…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Art has never been a popularity contest.
— James Levine
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
— Joseph Conrad
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn…
— William Cowper
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I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes…
— Abraham Lincoln
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What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the…
— Hermann Bondi
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment,…
— Walter Savage Landor
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the…
— Sun Tzu
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I met my darling wife Wilnelia in 1980 when we were on the judging panel for the Miss World contest at the Royal Albert Hall.…
— Bruce Forsyth
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No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man.....it is simply…
— Thomas Huxley
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The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.
— Patience Jonathan
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The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and…
— Mao Zedong
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It's probably the toughest distance race in the world to win. World class runners from 1500m to the marathon contest it and instead of just…
— Paul Tergat
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I foresee a great funeral contest over me.
— Alexander the Great
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Dusty Rhodes wouldn't win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he'd win for MOST abs.
— Jesse Ventura
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I wanted to have a Vanna White look alike contest here, the only problem was, most of the girls who showed up look like Betty…
— Raven
Who Wrote These Contest Quotes
294 authors contributed a total of 345 Contest Quotes, led by these top contributors: