#contend

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#bush #contend #down #establish #every

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#capital #capital punishment #come #contend #i

I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#each #enough #every #good #i

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#blossom #contend #culture #flourishing #flowers

Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#decisions #many #now #opportunities #time

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#battle #contend #fighting #known #only

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#apply #contend #cry #die #dispute

I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#because #contender #could #football #good

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. ↗

— Angela Carter

#contend #future #here #hopes #hypothesis

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#contend #lose #man #never #nothing