Top 28 Uncontested Quotes
#1. The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.
Chris Copeland
#2. President Bush announced that the war in Iraq has been won. It's all over, it's been won. I believe this would be Bush's first uncontested victory.
David Letterman
#3. America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say "perception" because America is a very all-or-nothing society ... We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn't uncontested, it was positively devastating.
Max Brooks
#4. To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#5. His position, like so many of his ilk, was one of uncontested and unearned respect.
John Boyne
#6. But the day is coming when Jesus will return to earth and the reign of God will become an uncontested reality throughout the world.
Zondervan Publishing
#7. Path. Jesus Christ is the uncontested Champion of my life. He is the only good that dwells in me. I know He performs miracles because I am one.
Beth Moore
#8. by the FCC's own reckoning, the cable companies will soon enjoy an uncontested monopoly over broadband Internet in much of the United States beyond the East Coast, and they are also seeking control of more Hollywood studios and television networks.
Tim Wu
#9. My step-dad's rendition of events was uncontested even by me and therefore, it became our truth. Truth I'd never be able to prove or change; truth that protected him from suspicion and penalty. Truth that I now knew was a lie.
J.M. Northup
#10. Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?" I asked Mrs. Davis. "I should think not," she said calmly, "although I suppose on of us should, for the fun of the thing. An uncontested divorce always seems to me contrary to the spirit of divorce.
Donald Barthelme
#11. No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.
Miranda Hart
#12. There is no such thing as a beauty contest . . . Beauty is noncompetitive. Beauty of any kind stands alone, unmatched, inimitable, uncontested.
Edna Robinson
#13. The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.
Ayn Rand
#14. The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.
Rick Majerus
#15. Maps, contour maps and all maps, intrigue us for the metaphors that they are: tools to give us a sense of something whose truth is far richer but without which we would perceive nothing and never find our bearings.
Zia Haider Rahman
#17. He wants to know everything about her.
How she spends her time when not performing.
How she interacts with her audiences.
How she takes her tea.
Erin Morgenstern
#18. One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'
Jill McCorkle
#19. Are you drunk?" she whispered. "Only on you, duchess. Only ever on you."
-Arabella & Luc
Katharine Ashe
#20. My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it.
M.F. Moonzajer
#21. If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself ... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
Wendell Berry
#22. Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#24. Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.
Tahir Shah
#25. She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.
Jane Austen
#26. Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.
Meg Cabot
#27. Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#28. Bluebell: Please, sir, I'm only a little [car] and I've left all my petrol on the grass. So if you don't mind eating the grass, sir, while I give this lady a ride-
Hazel: Bluebell, shut up!
Richard Adams
