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One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
I want to have a chance to contend.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.
I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play.
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Community groups contend that door-to-door loan sales are often followed by foreclosures.
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.
I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.
Being a three piece, maybe it's easier. You only have two other guys, musically, and everything else to contend with and work with.
I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!
So much of what blacks and women contend with is centered in how we view, and how the world views, our bodies. Gestures, voices, affect.
Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.
Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
When I was filming 'Lost,' we'd be in the jungle. The only thing we had to contend with was the sound of the ocean. That was it, really.
I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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.
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.
Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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.
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.
That's one of the reasons I decided to come to Boston - to contend and win a championship, especially with the history of the Celtics and what they stand for.
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.
I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.
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.
Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with.
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
I contend that if it wasn't for Jimi, the gadgets we use for electric guitars now wouldn't have happened. He was an inventor, in a sense - as well as being great artist.
I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.
Some contend that, by fulfilling our promise to the American people, we're somehow trying to go back to the way things were before ObamaCare - which we all know is untrue.
We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don't have to contend with it.
