Quotes about Contest
In any hand-to-hand combat, there's a constant back-and-forth of blows
— John Eldredge
Hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce,Strive here for mast'ry.
— John Milton
Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self—condemning; And of their vain contest' appeared no end. (The closing lines of Book Nine, which illuminates The Fall.)
— John Milton
The word race is from the Greek agon, from which we get the word agony.
— Max Lucado
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
— Abraham Lincoln
Society and culture are therefore not true opponents of each other. Rather society is a species of culture that persists in contradicting itself, a freely organized attempt to conceal the freedom of the organizers and the organized, an attempt to forget that we have willfully forgotten our decision to enter this or that contest and to continue in it.
— James Carse
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
— Abraham Lincoln
My business is to take care of life, and to do the best I can think of for it. 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. Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects
— George Eliot
Nature now, like an athlete, begins to strip herself in earnest for her contest with her great antagonist Winter. In the bare trees and twigs what a display of muscle!
— Henry David Thoreau
“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
— Judges 14:12
I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.
— Al Gore