#contest

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#arse #contest #kicking #man #useful

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest. ↗

— William Devane

#emmys #popularity #popularity contest #ultimately

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#believe #believes #cannot #contested #free

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#claim #contested #creature #fact #inferred

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#being #conquerors #contests #english-speaking #field

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains. ↗

— John Moody

#big government #company #contest #country #entire

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#desperate #electoral #grown #happen #happening

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#contest #end #good #judge #justice

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#better #between #cannon #capital #classes

Peter has the biggest mouth, so it goes to be a mouth contest. ↗

— Josh Silver

#contest #goes #mouth #peter