Contest

Famous quotes containing the word contest:

“I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“The contest ends at midnight tonight
But you can submit again, and again.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)