Contests Quotes - Page 8

• Great contests generally excite great animosities.

  Livy

  Contention, Animosity

  Livy (1855). “The History of Rome”, p.129

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• There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.

  Arlen Specter

  Thinking, Political, Want

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• In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Bulldogs

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• I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.

  Rob Zombie

  Stars, Successful, Winning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I feel like I've been waiting for someone to tell me when I can be normal again,' she said. 'I keep thinking I'll get a letter. Or a call. When does it happen?' Pete looked like he wanted to walk toward her, but then he fell back against the car. The staring contest between them for almost a minute, and finally Pete exhaled loudly. It's okay,' he said.

  Maureen Johnson

  Thinking, Car, Waiting

  Maureen Johnson (2013). “The Key To The Golden Firebird”, p.219, Hot Key Books

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• When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

  Charles Bukowski

  Worry, Doubt, Delight

  "Fictional character: Henry Chinaski". "Factotum", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.

  Richard Rohr

  Biblical, Ideas, Achievement

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• Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Answers, Firsts, Life Is

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• When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Law, People, Justice

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.107, Penguin

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• The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!

  Patrick Henry

  Strong, War, Boston

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• 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

  Men, Competition, Succeed

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.227, Macmillan

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• 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 basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, School, Exercise

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• This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Race, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1991). “Great Speeches”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Anger, Angel

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• It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Fun

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• When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Fun, Struggle

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

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• In sum, the purpose is to contest the popular view, because popular opinions are so frequently found to be untimely, misled (by propaganda), or plainly wrong.

  Humphrey B. Neill

  Views, Purpose, Opinion

  Humphrey Bancroft Neill (1963). “The Art of Contrary Thinking”, p.9, Caxton Press

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• I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.

  Gordon Brown

  Thinking, Should

  "Key quotes: Gordon Brown". news.bbc.co.uk. September 10, 2006.

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• Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Winning, Good Person, Persons

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• To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.

  Karen Walton

  Drama, Writing, Doors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

  Greg Brown

  Fun, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our children's worth does not dependon their ability to trounce one another. And surely we can find ways of frolicking and being healthy and active together in some joyful, free way that is not an adversary relationship.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Sibling, Parent

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Bridges, Intellectual

  Source: time.com

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• I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

  Dan Harmon

  Writing, Trying, Use

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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• I was having a conversation with one of my teammates and she asked me, "Aren't you so glad it's over? We don't have to compete anymore." I thought that was a strange comment but in that moment I realized that I was doing it for the right reasons. I wasn't looking at the Olympics to define me. I wasn't to arrive somewhere by performing well in a contest.

  Kelly Clark

  Teammate, Olympics, Strange

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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