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.
It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.
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.
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've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.
I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.
I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.
Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.
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.
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 drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
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.
Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.
It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender!
I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.
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.
