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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
I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.
— Kirk Gibson
I don't actually have any accounts, because social networking has always felt like a popularity contest to me. A public record of my own inadequacies.
— Stephanie Perkins
You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.
— Epictetus
It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
Do not be a "go along, get along" person when it comes to the suffering of others. Integrity is not a popularity contest. Stand for love!
— Bryant McGill
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
— Woodrow Wilson
Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.
— Vladimir Franz
My painting is a contest
between life and sleep. — Francis Picabia
between life and sleep. — Francis Picabia
It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock
The fearful ascetic runs on foot, along the surface.
Lovers move like lightning and wind.
No contest. — Jalaluddin Rumi
Lovers move like lightning and wind.
No contest. — Jalaluddin Rumi
Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.
— T.F. Hodge
When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.
— Rory Bremner
Soldiers have nothing to look forward to, making patience an easy virtue, and sometimes it's not just a virtue but a contest of indifference.
— Steven Erikson
Winners see the victory before the contest begins and before they cross the finish line. Get yourself ready. SEE THE VICTORY.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
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.
— E. Michael Burke
Can't be any harder than sitting here and having a staring contest with mortality.
— Brandon Sanderson
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.
— Dominique Wilkins
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them.
— Leo Burnett
Focus on winning the contest with yourself.
— John Kessel
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.
— Robert Breault
Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.
— Ernie Isley
Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.
— Bryan Callen
He gave Gaspode a long, slow stare, which was like challenging a centipede to an arse-kicking contest.
— Terry Pratchett
I think the correct term for this was 'pissing contest', and though I was flattered, I didn't have time for it.
— Kim Harrington
It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.
— Jay Haley
That's the thing about exes - for eternity you feel like rivals in a kind of happiness contest, and losing would be the epitome of tragedy.
— Daria Snadowsky
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.
— Isaac D'Israeli
Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
— George Eliot
My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.
— Allison Pearson
Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
— Trent Reznor
Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.
— Leon M. Lederman
The great contest for the presidency is about the future, who can lead, who can get things done.
— George W. Bush
There is no such thing as a beauty contest . . . Beauty is noncompetitive. Beauty of any kind stands alone, unmatched, inimitable, uncontested.
— Edna Robinson
Excitement is impossible where there is no contest.
— Henry Cabot Lodge
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
— Benazir Bhutto
Art has never been a popularity contest.
— James Levine
Lesson one, bitch. Don't start a pissing contest with someone who has the strength and temper to hurt you.
— Anne Bishop
About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
— Takeru Kobayashi
I called him up from a phone booth. The voice that answered was fat. It wheezed softly, like the voice of a man who had just won a pie-eating contest.
— Raymond Chandler
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.
— Miller Williams
There really isn't much use in getting into a pissing contest since I have to sit down to pee anyway.
— Tammy Blackwell
Monochrome contentment or technicolor roller-coaster? No contest, is it?
— Catherine Sanderson
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
— Seneca The Younger
Quilty grimaces. "I don't like what comes after 'dicker.' " "What is that?" Quilty sighs. "Dickest. I mean, really: it's not a contest!
— Lorrie Moore
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
— John Steinbeck
Dusty Rhodes wouldn't win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he'd win for MOST abs.
— Jesse Ventura
No victory without war. No prize without price. No winning without contest.
— Ikechukwu Joseph
Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.
— Matthew McConaughey
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...
— John Szarkowski
Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner.
— Karen E. Quinones Miller
It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.
— Abe Lemons
Literature, of course, is not a contest.
— Lorrie Moore
Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.'
— Bill Maher
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
— William Cowper
They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
— Jean-Christophe Maillot
The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose.
— Brenna Yovanoff
The inspector sat down on a stair, fired up a cigarette, and entered an immobility contest with a lizard.
— Andrea Camilleri
I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.
— Andrew Evans
No, the sky, it is not a contest or an exam. The only question is, can you look up? Can you take it all in?
— Clare Vanderpool
Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.
— Eric Clapton
In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.
— Sylvester Stallone
It's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.
— Andrew James Pritchard
I'm about to enter a national ass-kicking contest. With no legs. And a massive ass.
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest.
— William Rainey Harper
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Compete, but not out of envy.
Contest, but not out of hostility.
Treat your rivals with respect;
treat your allies with honor. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Contest, but not out of hostility.
Treat your rivals with respect;
treat your allies with honor. — Matshona Dhliwayo
They were too hopelessly alienated in their inner life ever to have that contest which is an effort towards agreement.
— George Eliot
For my next trick, I will win a staring contest with the moron in orange sunglasses.
— Marissa Meyer
I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.
— Phyllis Diller
Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.
— William Devane