Contests Quotes

335 quotes by 287 authors

I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and… — Taylor Swift
I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you… — Chuck Palahniuk
The bluejacket girlie rode like a clan warrior, but there was no way she'd escape. It was a private life-and-death contest that had nothing to… — Cinda Williams Chima
Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here… — William Shakespeare
I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests,… — David Levithan
Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly. — Brandon Sanderson
To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to… — Alan Watts
I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest. — Sara Zarr
Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I… — John Green
Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other. — Unknown Author
They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didnâ€™t back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head:… — Rick Riordan
It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys. — Faith Hunter
Oh, by the wayâ€¦â€ Jason glanced at Percy. â€œI resigned my office, gave Frank a field promotion to praetor. Unless you want to contest that… — Rick Riordan
All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended. — Jim Rohn
A good marriage is a contest of generosity. — Diane Sawyer
School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily… — John Taylor Gatto
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. — William Prescott
This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders -… — Abraham Lincoln
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an… — Saul Bellow

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