One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind
Jean Kerr
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle
Winston Churchill
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
Stephen Roberts
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.
Amrit Bohara
We had a good car tonight, and I think we could have gotten past the three leaders to contend for the win, but we didn`t have to. So I just took care of the car, and it took care of me.
Chris Ward
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
Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.
Andrew Greeley
The world`s largest airline and Europe`s largest carrier contend they can`t compete without the ability to fix prices and schedules and dominate the world`s largest business market, ... This is a deal that just should not be approved under any circumstanc...
Aram Rubinson
Technically, she`s got top value. What we have always been lacking coming out of the U.S. are the girls that are able to pull off a lot of triple-triple combinations ... to contend with the Russian girls and the Chinese and Japanese girls.
Antonio Aldeguer
Our team is working very hard and had a great summer of base building, running every day, ... Our goal, as it is every year, is to be able to contend for a state championship.
City High
Our plan is to get everyone healthy for the outdoor championships. If we can do that, and with the addition of our strong throwers in the javelin and discus, I`m sure both our men`s and women`s team will contend for a top-three finish at the outdoor champ...
James Dunn
One of the things I`ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
Aimee Mann
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
Franz Liszt
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
It was a very successful year for us. I don`t anybody was really expecting us to contend for the championship and we took it to the last race. I would have really liked to win it, but I am content with second.
Andy Weissman
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.
Anthony Brown
I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.
Andrew Greeley
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.
Andrew Greeley
But I contend that if we`re providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn`t we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?
Andrew Greeley
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Tse-Tung
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