Zitat des Tages über Konkurrenz / Contending:
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'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
I have been contending all my life, and always with God.
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
