Contests Quotes

335 quotes by 295 authors

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to… — Leslie Banks
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons… — Thomas Szasz
We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten… — Pat Conroy
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. — Ishmael Reed
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to… — George Washington
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good… — Richard Avedon
The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena. — Jefferson Davis
We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to… — Arthur Lynch
They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was… — Tina Yothers
And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives… — Plato
The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack… — Jack Johnson
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships. — Ibycus
In the contest between talent and hard work as to which is the more important element of success, there's no comparison. A mediocre talent with… — David Joyner
Life is not a popularity contest — Susun Weed
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and… — Umair Haque
Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it — Ben Hogan
In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a… — Joseph Barbera
The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway… — Dale Dauten
Apparently Matts been busier than a centipede at a toe counting contest. — Joe Teti
The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student… — Karl Jaspers

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