Quotes About Contest

Sometimes it becomes a contest: Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

Over the last decade "shareholder" has been replaced by "stakeholder." I will remind my readers that a stakeholder is an onlooker to a gambling event. The contenders in the wager trust the stakeholder to hold their respective bets (the stakes) and at the contest's conclusion to award them to the winner. The stakeholder is one who, by definition, can have neither interest nor profit in the outcome. I believe no further comment is required.

We play the contest again, Time Lord.

With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order their young to slaughter each other. Analysis -endless analysis- has been offered about the two men's tactics, as if they were coaches preparing for the Super Bowl.

It's kind of fun when it's you versus them.

Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make; the vision and programmes that political parties bring to the table. So although, Modi's style is 'I, me, myself,' I don't think 2014 elections as a Modi versus Rahul contest.

I was in a modeling contest when I was 16. People don't think it's different, modeling versus beauty pageants, but it is. As a model, you're still an individual. When you are crowned a Miss, you are representative of a lot.

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

What people often forget is that for the parties involved, the media game is a vicious contest.

If I can train for a contest for a week, it's a guaranteed victory.

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

Sex is no longer a beautiful thing, she said. It has become an entirely separate entity from what was quaintly known as making love. It's been transformed into a game between the sexes. It is as deceptive as chess and as anonymous as those men in helmets, racing cars on TV. This generation of men and women have turned it into a frenetically overenergetic contest and a performance. The more outlandish the game, the more popular it becomes.

At the same time, Italian sausage, breadsticks, antipasto, and spaghetti vied for air supremacy.

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

We've still got our costume to be working on, because if we don't win that contest, Wally's going to be king and you're going to be his loyal subject. And if that's not enough to make you throw up, I don't know what is.

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest.

meaning is everywhere contested. Each of their missions is instead meant to bring truth and its consequences into the life of someone who has woven a persona of lies, thereby putting an end to his or her crimes. There's no doubt that Lucia deserves to be terrified

carefully. Cute, smart, funny? That described Lucy! She could win the spokespet contest, easy!

I've got to learn o take rest and shelter - here, there, anywhere - with as much composure and ease as I accept the open road. It is the basic contest between Being and Doing, focused in my life now as never before.

all the boys had a contest to see who could spin around in circles the longest without throwing up.

My deepest desire . . . is to sink my dagger into your heart and watch you . . . die." "And mine is to sink my dagger into your sweet woman's flesh and watch you writhe with pleasure." His lips were moving lower, toward that creamy swell of flesh above the closure of her shirt. Maeve's heart began to pound, and the room was suddenly too hot, far too hot. "Shall we have a contest to see who wins?

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.