Contests Quotes

335 quotes by 287 authors

Body art isnâ€™t a contest. The only person that has to like it is the person stuck with it for the rest of their life.… — Jay Crownover
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially… — James Surowiecki
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
If [the Packers] can protect Aaron Rodgers and allow him to throw the ball down the field this game will not even be a contest.… — Marshall Faulk
I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman… — Caroline Rhea
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated,… — Thomas Carlyle
Gina Hyams has put together a fabulous fun book/gift:Â Pie Contest in a Box: Everything You Need to Host a Pie Contest. Thereâ€™s a great book… — Shauna James Ahern
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not… — Edmund Burke
Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were… — Christopher McDougall
It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree. — Julia Leigh
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome. — Michael Mandelbaum
Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government… — Lucy Powell
When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay… — Dee Dee Ramone
My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family.… — Johann Lamont
People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest. — Dominique Wilkins
My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest. — Allison Pearson
I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see… — Florence Griffith Joyner
Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests." — Richard Dawkins
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military power.… — Ben Bova
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires… — Philip Roth

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