Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverbs

It is more difficult to contend with oneself than with the world.

Chris McDonnell

I was a little disappointed in the position as I thought we could contend for the title. But we just didn't race like I thought we would.

Ricky Ray

If we want to be a team that is going to contend for the Grey Cup, we've got to get better offensively,

Ralph Connor

I'm seeing improvement in our times. We're working at getting better. We would like to defend our sectional championship and see if we can contend for a regional spot. Everybody is working very hard enough that we'll see improvement during the year.

Ben Wolcott

These fronts roll through this time of year, and it makes it very easy for forest fires to spread. One good thing is we don't have the heat and wind to contend with.

Henry David Thoreau

Always you have to contend with the stupidity of men.

Ron Bamberger

It's a bittersweet experience. It's great to have a Derby contender named after you -- it will definitely put you on a high -- but knowing I am standing in the shoes of my friend takes the edge off a bit.

Steve McKinney

We were supposed to be contending for a playoff spot right now. Instead, we're contending for the No. 1 pick in the draft. Our fans are kind of frothing at the mouth over it.

Jim Williams

These dissidents contend that all the people in Leisure World are poor, downtrodden, sheepish people who can't protect themselves, ... But the truth of the matter is, a lot of people are just that way because they don't want to get involved. They want to retire in peace.

Donald Rumsfeld

have made extensive use of the underground construction, which enables them to do things such as development and storage and, indeed, even launching from underground hidden silo areas.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

H. Hunt

The designation enables us to protect our land, not just for ourselves and our visitors, but for future generations.

Lewis B. Smedes

The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.

Lewis B. Smedes

Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.

Phil Garner

What Mulder has done is really solidify their rotation. It enables them to put pitchers in a third and fourth position that they would like and it gives them a very strong rotation.

Graham Walker

It enables the replication to keep going and tolerate the damage, even though it doesn't get rid of it.

Glenn Greenwald

Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable as human beings. It's the place that uniquely enables us to explore limits, to test boundaries, to engage in novel and creative ways of thinking and being.

Donna Brazile

I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Robert Fick

I don't give a ----. I was trying to make a play.

Rasheed Wallace

I don't know what they were trying to do. But whatever it was, it didn't work.