Contest Quotes

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.

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

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

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

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.

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.