Top 719 Contest Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 16, 2024.
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 blood?
I just love the apple. There's no contest as far as fruit goes, in my eyes. It comes from the garden of Eden.
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.
The Internet is a contest between people with the same name to be the person who dominates that online space.
I'm not here to win a popularity contest. I'm here to work and have a career. Let the haters hate. I'm ready for the criticism.
Damn! This flight attendant treating us like we won these first class tickets in a contest.
Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them.
When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.
Going into a contest, I do not eat solid food and take in minimal calories for days, so I am hungry.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town.
Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.
Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.
If I contest elections in a federation, I will not get even four votes. It's all politics and money.
Whether you win or lose against English teams, you always feel it's been a proper contest.
There is no rule or tradition in the BJP to forbid leaders to contest polls after they attain the age of 75.
War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.
It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.
It hurts like hell when you come into a contest and you end up being second best.
Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.
Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.
My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.
I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business.
I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
If you undermine people's confidence, they turn up at the contest trying to get second place.
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.
I do not like to put one title above the other. Every competition I contest and win is important.
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
You need to stay calm the day of the contest. Not let the weather bother me and just relax.
But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.
Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.
When you're in the slam dunk contest, you try to do the things the average person would have trouble doing on a Nerf basket.
Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.
The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.
The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest.
When I was 27, I won an honorable mention in a scriptwriting contest and got a television job as an assistant director.
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
I'm of course jumping right in with the attitude that I can win the Eurovision Song Contest - or at least finish in second place!
Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.
I don't know where I'm rated. I don't pay attention to that. I'm really so just all into my craft. It's not a contest. I try to play the best.
I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.
I`m 100 percent impartial. I`m - my responsibility is to manage this primary nominating contest neutrally and fairly.
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
What people often forget is that for the parties involved, the media game is a vicious contest.
I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.
I am very happy to be nominated by the Congress party to contest the Lok Sabha elections.
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 law of strategic siege.
