Famous quotes containing the words talent and/or contest:
“But I hate things all fiction ... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabricand pure invention is but the talent of a liar.”
—GGeorge Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“By his mere quiet power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)