Quotes about Contest

I refuse to enter a wet T-Shirt Contest until my breasts look more like breasts, and less like something I should tuck into my pants Votes: 3

When I compete, I leave it all on the table. That's my philosophy for the Hot Dog Eating Contest. Do you know what's in those things? Gross! Votes: 3

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. Votes: 3

I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously, Votes: 3

Contests were so pertinent that you had to think that way but today, it's not like that. You have your contest skaters, you have your video skaters, you have your skaters who don't like either of them, but they all are sponsored and get paid. Votes: 3

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. Votes: 2

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest. Votes: 2

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Votes: 2

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. Votes: 2

I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would be good experience. Votes: 2

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title. Votes: 2

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. Votes: 2

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win. Votes: 2

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. Votes: 2

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 contest between gladiators. Votes: 2

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be. Votes: 2

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two. Votes: 2

Psychopaths view any social exchange as a 'feeding opportunity,' a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse. Votes: 2

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied. Votes: 2

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is? Votes: 2

An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting. Votes: 2

Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard. Votes: 2

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest. Votes: 2

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. Votes: 2

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. Votes: 2

People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year's resolution to a lifestyle. Votes: 2

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds. Votes: 2

My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother. Votes: 2

Life is not a popularity contest Votes: 0

All language is a popularity contest. Votes: 0

Marketing is a contest for people's attention. Votes: 0

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest. Votes: 0

Focus on winning the contest with yourself. Votes: 0

Art has never been a popularity contest. Votes: 0

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest. Votes: 0

I foresee a great funeral contest over me. Votes: 0

A good marriage is a contest of generosity. Votes: 0

The presidency is more than a popularity contest. Votes: 0

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. Votes: 0

I'm not out here to win a beauty contest. Votes: 0

I never count countries. Travel is not a contest. Votes: 0

The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest. Votes: 0

Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest. Votes: 0

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. Votes: 0

He changed more times than a baby in a beer-drinking contest. Votes: 0

Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance. Votes: 0

People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest. Votes: 0

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory. Votes: 0

I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6. Votes: 0

Busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. Votes: 0

War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds. Votes: 0

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest. Votes: 0

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse... Votes: 0

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. Votes: 0

Apparently Matts been busier than a centipede at a toe counting contest. Votes: 0

I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting. Votes: 0

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. Votes: 0

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy]. Votes: 0

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate. Votes: 0

I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day. Votes: 0

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. Votes: 0

I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest. Votes: 0

In case you're wondering why Guy Fieri is here, he won a contest. Votes: 0

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest. Votes: 0

When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win. Votes: 0

Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass. Votes: 0

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it Votes: 0

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. Votes: 0

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose. Votes: 0

I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest. Votes: 0

The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now. Votes: 0

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. Votes: 0

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. Votes: 0

You can't enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction. Votes: 0

Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them. Votes: 0

I'm about to enter a national ass-kicking contest. With no legs. And a massive ass. Votes: 0

The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest. Votes: 0

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity. Votes: 0

We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power. Votes: 0

Good thing it's a fight and not a modeling contest or you'd be f#cked. Votes: 0

Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest. Votes: 0

I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be Votes: 0

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar. Votes: 0

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar. Votes: 0

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter. Votes: 0

You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead. Votes: 0

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest. Votes: 0

Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression. Votes: 0

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional. Votes: 0

Damn! This flight attendant treating us like we won these first class tickets in a contest. Votes: 0

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option. Votes: 0

I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old. Votes: 0

It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest. Votes: 0

Two Romans seem to deliver no contest. Send three, so that I may deliver proper tribute! Votes: 0

It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys. Votes: 0

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both. Votes: 0

Dusty Rhodes wouldn't win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he'd win for MOST abs. Votes: 0

The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose. Votes: 0

All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended. Votes: 0

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself. Votes: 0

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. Votes: 0

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together. Votes: 0

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money. Votes: 0

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. Votes: 0

Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire. Votes: 0

Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.' Votes: 0

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual. Votes: 0

There are people who organise the contest, winners, losers, and people who benefit from the contest taking place. Votes: 0

I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him. Votes: 0

The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil. Votes: 0

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?. Votes: 0

The great contest for the presidency is about the future, who can lead, who can get things done. Votes: 0

I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business. Votes: 0

I`m 100 percent impartial. I`m - my responsibility is to manage this primary nominating contest neutrally and fairly. Votes: 0

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall. Votes: 0

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won. Votes: 0

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. Votes: 0

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. Votes: 0

It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing. Votes: 0

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles? Votes: 0

A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners. Votes: 0

In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment. Votes: 0

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest! Votes: 0

About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water. Votes: 0

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer. Votes: 0

The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena. Votes: 0

The Internet is a contest between people with the same name to be the person who dominates that online space. Votes: 0

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind Votes: 0

If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone's wallets. Votes: 0

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides. Votes: 0

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture... Votes: 0

The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being. Votes: 0

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest. Votes: 0

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest. Votes: 0

In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. Votes: 0

A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it? Votes: 0

A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt. Votes: 0

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval. Votes: 0

Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest? Votes: 0

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise. Votes: 0

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. Votes: 0

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ... Votes: 0

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest. Votes: 0

I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality. Votes: 0

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man. Votes: 0

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree. Votes: 0

Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. Votes: 0

War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else. Votes: 0

I'm very competitive. I remember being 4 years old trying to out-chug my dad in a milk-chugging contest. It's been in my blood. Votes: 0

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest. Votes: 0

It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant. Votes: 0

Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided. Votes: 0

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. Votes: 0

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. Votes: 0

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. Votes: 0

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else. Votes: 0

I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada. Votes: 0

I'm really interested in revamping the Supernatural contest, so I'm going to put a lot of effort and energy into that going forward. Votes: 0

You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered. Votes: 0

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered. Votes: 0

People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence. Votes: 0

The woman of tomorrow will be efficacious, seductive and without contest superior to man. It is for this woman that I conceive my designs. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains. Votes: 0

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age. Votes: 0

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me... Votes: 0

From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest. Votes: 0

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 meeting. Votes: 0

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate. Votes: 0

I wanted to have a Vanna White look alike contest here, the only problem was, most of the girls who showed up look like Betty White. Votes: 0

I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece. Votes: 0

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science. Votes: 0

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game. Votes: 0

In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic. Votes: 0

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees Votes: 0

The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is. Votes: 0

You look lousy,"Simon said. Jace blinked."Seems an odd time to start an insult contest,but if you insist,I could probably think up something good Votes: 0

The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins. Votes: 0

I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest. Votes: 0

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest. Votes: 0

Anyone can win a slam-dunk contest. The real Superman is dead. He was assassinated by Pat Riley. I'm the Big Cactus now and ready to roll again. Votes: 0

You have to believe in what you are saying. Maybe they will like it or not but they cannot contest that what you are saying is true. Votes: 0

You must practice the discipline of a champion before you win the actual contest. The appointment and opportunity must then come to confirm what you have already become. Votes: 0

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts. Votes: 0

Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came in last, I got 361 get-well cards. Votes: 0

While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest. Votes: 0

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that. Votes: 0

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that. Votes: 0

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart. Votes: 0

Grace does not contest the powers-that-be through an effective show of verifiable strength but through a persistent and subversive recoding of how one defines what strength and weakness are. Votes: 0

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job. Votes: 0

The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations. Votes: 0

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience. Votes: 0

Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid. Votes: 0

...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau. Votes: 0

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. Votes: 0

People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that. Votes: 0

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

That could be the issue that the party - that the party faces as we get ready to potentially nominate someone who`s utterly unelectable in a general election contest. Votes: 0

It is very, very hard to do that ballroom dancing and I am going to be nowhere near it. Now if you have a hot dog eating contest, call me. Votes: 0

Every political contest is hard, that's part of the DNA in America. We make it really tough to run for and hold the highest and hardest job in our country. Votes: 0

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 Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite. Votes: 0

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part. Votes: 0

For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news. Votes: 0

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down. Votes: 0

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people. Votes: 0

It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labor to give no offense, & the other labor to take none. The best of men are severe to themselves, tender over others. Votes: 0

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 encyclopedia of clichés the first prize. Votes: 0

In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake? Votes: 0

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification. Votes: 0

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography. Votes: 0

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school. Votes: 0

I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest? Votes: 0

It's almost like my career has been [based on voting]. I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting. And then on Dancing with the Stars, fans were voting. Votes: 0

I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months later, I was one of the fifteen finalists in an international contest. Votes: 0

When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine. Votes: 0

I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions. Votes: 0

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time. Votes: 0

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs. Votes: 0

I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library. Votes: 0

She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby. Votes: 0

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 in his environment over the control of the individual's body. Votes: 0

A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center. Votes: 0

I began as a true beginner, not knowing how to dance or perform. I just entered a local contest in town as a joke, because if you entered you got a free blouse and scarf. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I'd win is the number of trips to the bathroom it takes to purge a 32oz soda. Votes: 0

Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if all the players play to their potential we're in for some wonderful cricket. Votes: 0

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 really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth. Votes: 0

Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings. Votes: 0

Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities. Votes: 0

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway. Votes: 0

The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy. Votes: -1