#contend

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At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.


Parminder Nagra


#ball #because #bit #camera #contend

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.


Patricia Sun


#contend #fearful #feel #i #information

Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service.


John Sununu


#call #ceos #contend #critics #executives

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

My son Cooper has just turned ten and the sarcasm fairy has already started to take up residence inside his body. Not only am I living with my mother - again! - but I've also got her mini-me to contend with.


Melissa Rivers


#already #also #am #body #contend

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

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.


Steven Hatfill


#any #anyone #contend #extremely #form