Contests Quotes

335 quotes by 295 authors

A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt. — Ethan Gilsdorf
It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics… — Richard Gere
I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money. — Bam Margera
LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in… — Ambrose Bierce
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall. — Plutarch
A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town… — E. Michael Burke
The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which of two parties… — Lysander Spooner
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they… — Rose Schneiderman
You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer. — Epictetus
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused… — Dale Carnegie
The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires… — Edmund Burke
I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests… — Arthur Godfrey
Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls — Amy Tan
The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest. — William Rainey Harper
Focus on winning the contest with yourself. — John Kessel
The woman of tomorrow will be efficacious, seductive and without contest superior to man. It is for this woman that I conceive my designs. — Paco Rabanne
Dominance contests are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none. — L. David Mech
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. — Warren E. Burger
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs… — Abraham Lincoln
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and… — Cyrano de Bergerac

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