Rivals Quotes:

There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.

- A.J. Ayer

source: "Philosophy in the Twentieth Century" by A.J. Ayer, (p. 133), 1982.

topic: Rivals, Tests, Claims

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

- Albert Bushnell Hart

source: Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

topic: Europe, India, Rivals, West Indies

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Emotional, Rivals, Fairy Tale

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

- Alva Myrdal

source: Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

topic: War, Tools, Rivals

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

- Andre Malraux

topic: Artist, World, Rivals

(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.

- Andreï Makine

source: "Dreams of My Russian Summers". Book by Andreï Makine, September 6, 1995.

topic: Rivals, Slave, Poetry Is, Translators

Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.

- Anne Robinson

topic: Teacher, Kicking, Rivals

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

- Bernard Hinault

topic: Delight, Rivals, Terrible, Without A Trace

The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs - would end up magnifying each other's sins rather than keeping each other in check.

- Bethany McLean

source: Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera (2011). “All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis”, p.189, Penguin

topic: Army, Two, Rivals, Magnifying

As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

- Betty Grable

topic: Girl, Dancer, Rivals, Love Films, Truck Driver

A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.

- Charles Boyer

topic: Italian, Men, Rivals, Deceitful, Break Off

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Rivals, Rooms, Moments

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

- Christopher Hampton

topic: Husband, Thinking, Rivals, Degrading

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

- David Fairchild

topic: Food, Science, Rivals, Avocados

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

- Dawn Fraser

source: "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. January 11, 2002.

topic: Upset, Rivals, Used

Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.

- Donald Rumsfeld

topic: Jobs, World, Rivals, Infatuated

A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.

- Edwin Booth

topic: Christian, Rivals, Rejoice

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

- Ehud Barak

topic: Rivals, Sides, Politician

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

- Emile M. Cioran

topic: Time, Sleep, Rivals, Vacant

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.

- Emilia Clarke

topic: Epic, Rivals, Tvs

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

- Franz Stampfl

topic: Athlete, Achievement, Rivals

Work until your idols become your rivals

- G-Dragon

topic: Idols, Rivals

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Life, Rivals, Advantage

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

- George William Russell

source: "The School as a Home for the Mind : Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue" by Arthur L. Costa, (p. 91), 2007.

topic: Running, Men, Rivals, Steam Engines

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

- Grace Kelly

topic: Rivals, Deals

To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his authority.

- Graham Kendrick

topic: Jesus, Rivals, Return, Faith In Jesus, True God

After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.

- Gunter Grass

topic: Suicidal, Games, Rivals, Fair Game, Unleashed

Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Men, Atheism, Rivals

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

- Harold Bloom

source: "And now for a world government" by Gideon Rachman, www.ft.com. December 9, 2008.

topic: Believe, Criticism, Rivals

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

- Hermann Maier

topic: Winning, Race, Rivals

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Heart, Inferiority, Rivals

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Love, Men, Rivals, Depraved

A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . . . He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.

- Hugh Nibley

topic: Challenges, Degrees, Rivals, Inviting, Gauntlet

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

- James Lovelock

topic: Oil, Nuclear, Rivals, Oil Companies, Nuclear Power

Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them.

- James Parton

source: James Parton (1868). “Smoking and Drinking”, p.32

topic: Hate, Rivals, Rivalry

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

- Jean Racine

topic: Rivals, Embrace

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

- Jean-Marie Le Pen

source: "The veil? It protects us from ugly women" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

topic: Eye, Political, Rivals

When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals.

- Jenny Frost

topic: Girl, Band, Rivals

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

- John Boyd Orr

topic: Rivals, Empires, Defeat

We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.

- John C. Danforth

source: "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 166, September 19, 2006.

topic: Self, World, Rivals

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

topic: Errors, Choices, Rivals, Economic Policy

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

- John Mearsheimer

source: John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.161, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Growth, Rivals, Economic

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

- Jonathan Dimbleby

topic: Rivals, Facts, Rejoice

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

- Jose Marti

topic: Earth, Rivals, Fruit

Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Book, Style, Rivals, Well Written, Antagonist

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

- Joseph McCabe

source: "The Existence of God". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1913.

topic: Rivals, Retreat, Scientist, Interpreter, Theist

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.

- Kenneth Tynan

topic: Rivals, England, Sophisticated

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

- Kristi Yamaguchi

topic: Feelings, Rivals, Good Feeling

I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.

- Lech Walesa

topic: Victory, Borders, Rivals

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.

- Man Ray

topic: New York, Rivals, Tolerate

I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?

- Marc Webb

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Rivals, Lovers, Kind

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Rivals

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going.

- Mark Cane

topic: Successful, Goal, Rivals

No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win.

- Mas Oyama

topic: Strong, Winning, Rivals

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

- Michael Porter

topic: Successful, Trying, Rivals

Paris Hilton isn't my rival. I met her one or two times and she's making out there's this big rivalry between us and there so isn't.

- Mischa Barton

topic: Two, Paris, Rivals

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

- Morton Blackwell

topic: Mistake, Perfect, Rivals

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

- Morton Feldman

source: Morton Feldman (2000). “Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman”

topic: Years, Rivals, Said

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

- Muhammad Iqbal

topic: Rivals, Poet, Artistry

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Space, Rivals, Exploration

The good is the greatest rival of the best.

- Nellie L. McClung

topic: Rivals, Goodness

Keep your friends close — and your rivals even closer.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspiring, Rivals, Keep Your Friends Close

An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.

- Nick Hornby

topic: Player, Asking, Rivals, Spectre

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

- Novalis

topic: Powerful, Rivals, Savages, Powerful Life

Bear patiently with a rival.

- Ovid

topic: Enemy, Rivals, Bears

We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Believe, Rivals, Dangerous, Fake Friends

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

- Philippa Gregory

topic: Rivals, Said, Born

I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.

- Picabo Street

topic: Focus, Looks, Rivals

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

topic: Order, Rivals, Courtship

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

- Propertius

topic: Hair, Rivals, Glory, Sure Love, Gray Hair

Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you...

- Rex Stout

topic: Detectives, Foxes, Rivals

As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?

- Richard Attias

source: "An African Ivy League" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2013.

topic: Growth, Levels, Rivals, Harvard University

Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Rivals, Favors, Justified

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Dna, Rivals, Archives

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

- Robert Anton Wilson

topic: Real, Rivals, Lasts, Last Place, Standstill

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

- Robert Anton Wilson

topic: Struggle, Reality, Rivals

-He's his rival in love!*inuyasha hits shippo*why'd you do that!? shippo,if you bug inuyasha you'll only feel his fist.-Miroku+shippo

- Rumiko Takahashi

topic: Bugs, Rivals, Fists, Inuyasha

The ideal revolutionary command should effectively direct all planning and implementation. It must not allow the growth of any other rival center of power. There must be one command pooling and directing the subsequent governmental departments, including the armed forces.

- Saddam Hussein

topic: Growth, Rivals, Planning, Saddam

Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival.

- Sara Genn

topic: Education, Skills, Rivals

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

- Scott Westerfeld

topic: America, Sight, Rivals

Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.

- Sid Waddell

source: Interview with Jim White, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2002.

topic: Golden, Rivals, Underestimate, Rules Of Life

Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each other. To Strange's surprize Childermass understood perfectly and even addressed one or twoquestions to Minervois in his own language. Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

- Susanna Clarke

topic: Two, Rivals, Yorkshire

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.

- Thiruvalluvar

topic: Jealous, Mistress, Rivals

Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.

- Thomas Seward

topic: Cities, Rivals, Fame, Birthplace, Birth Place

My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is.

- Valentino Garavani

topic: Thinking, Rivals, Titles

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

- Virgil Thomson

topic: Crush, Paris, Rivals, Poise

Unfortunately, I've been fighting injuries recently more than facing rivals in the ring.

- Vitali Klitschko

topic: Motivation, Fighting, Rivals

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

- Wallace Stevens

topic: Needs, Rivals, Addresses, Hopes And Fears

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

- Will Durant

topic: Numbers, Rivals, May, Progressive Society, Concentration Of Wealth

How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.

- Willard Van Orman Quine

source: Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.189, Harvard University Press

topic: Answers, Variables, Rivals, Remarks

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

- William E. Gladstone

topic: Excess, Rivals, May

A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right .

- William E. Gladstone

topic: Guarantees, Excess, Rivals, Engaged, Scepticism

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

- William Ralph Inge

topic: Way, Rivals, Institutions

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

- William Wordsworth

topic: Light, Imagination, Rivals

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

- Wyndham Lewis

topic: Art, Rivals, Vices

Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.

- Arthur Desmond

source: "Might is Right". Book by Ragnar Redbeard, Chapter 6: Love, and Women, and War, 2, 1890.

topic: Encounters, Rivals, Lovers

I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals.

- Dayron Robles

topic: Worry, Shapes, Rivals

When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.

- Dayron Robles

topic: Worry, Rivals, Chance

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

- Isaac D'Israeli

topic: Criticism, Noble, Rivals, Antagonist

The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.

- J. K. Bharavi

topic: Flying, Enmity, Rivals

Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest.

- Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle

topic: Hero, Two, Rivals

The person who has the guts to ask themselves 'Why?' at least once a week, and be totally honest with themselves about the answer, is already twenty steps ahead of their smarter, more experienced rival.

- Mark Bouris

topic: Twenties, Answers, Rivals

Products with higher user engagement have the potential to grow faster than their rivals.

- Nir Eyal

topic: Engagement, Rivals, Faster

I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.

- Peter Storey

topic: Legs, Rivals, Broke, Over The Top

Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.

- Willis Regier

topic: Rivals, Favors, Welcome, Flatterer, Reciprocal

In arms and science tis the same Our rival's hurts create our fame.

- Matt Prior

topic: Hurt, Science, Rivals

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

topic: Love, Rivals, Instinct, Ineffable

There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.110

topic: Sex, Vanity, Rivals

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.53

topic: Abuse, Rivals, May, Flattered, Observers

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.

- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

topic: Successful, Feelings, Rivals, Mistreated, Venus In Furs

Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination.

- Sri Chinmoy

topic: Challenges, Progress, Rivals

When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.

- Charles Koch

topic: Winning, Government, Rivals

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

source: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2012). “Purple Hibiscus: A Novel”, p.220, Algonquin Books

topic: Crush, People, Rivals

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

- Penn Jillette

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Light, Car, Rivals, Attractive Woman

Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.

- Sylvia Plath

source: Sylvia Plath (2013). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings”, p.95, Faber & Faber

topic: Jam, Alive, Rivals, Starfish

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

source: "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 10, 1799.

topic: Love, Rivals, Encounters

Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.

- Alyson Noel

topic: Rivals, Incredibles, Creation

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.190, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Honor, Rivals

Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.

- Tertullian

topic: Flags, Rivals, Violence

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

- George Santayana

topic: Men, Historical, Rivals

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1052, Library of America

topic: Jealousy, Rivals, Bears

One I'm deeply into is Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals." I was the only person in the US who hadn't read it.

- Dave Barry

source: Source: www.bostonglobe.com

topic: Team, Rivals, Dori

The Australian Open attracts one of the most competitive line-ups in the world and I’m looking forward to putting the heat on some of my old on-court rivals.

- Mark Philippoussis

topic: World, Rivals, Lines

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

- John Irving

topic: Being Ignored, Rivals, Ignored

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

source: The Rivals act 3, sc. 3 (1775)

topic: Clever, Rivals, Headstrong, Nile

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

source: 'The Rivals' (1775) act 1, sc. 2

topic: Marriage, Clever, Rivals

Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.

- Toni Morrison

source: Toni Morrison (1992). “Jazz”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

topic: Rivals, Trouble, Loses

I never single out any one competitor. I treat all my rivals equally.

- Usain Bolt

source: Interview with Cat Nelson, www.timeoutbeijing.com. August 3, 2015.

topic: Rivals, Treats, Competitors

I have always challenged myself and it's also important to learn from the rivals. Every rider has his own style, and you have to count on some elements that cannot be changed. On the contrary, the bike or the tires can change and it's important to adapt yourself. It's up to the rider to understand what he can change and how much he can adapt.

- Valentino Rossi

source: Source: www.cycleworld.com

topic: Style, Important, Rivals

Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours!

- Barbara Corcoran

source: FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Aug 02, 2016

topic: Creative, Rivals, Down And

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

- Donald Rumsfeld

source: Donald Rumsfeld (2004). “The World According to Rummy”, Welcome Rain Publishers

topic: World, Rivals, Resentment, Infatuated

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.82

topic: Friendship, Soul, Rivals

The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon the prospect of their success, and always upon terms far easier than are open to their smaller rivals. It is perhaps on this line of easier credit that large capital today does most harm to small capital, drives it out and ruins it.

- Hilaire Belloc

source: Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.101, TAN Books

topic: Doe, Credit, Rivals

I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.

- Hilary Mantel

source: Source: newrepublic.com

topic: Rivals, Biographies, Historian

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

source: "Athenaeum Fragments". Book by Friedrich Schlegel (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

topic: Philosophical, Thinking, Rivals

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Men, Suffering, Rivals, Confidant

Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.

- Eddie Vedder

source: FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from Dec 15, 2014

topic: Dream, Men, Rivals

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

- Edmund Burke

source: Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.15

topic: Wicked, Rivals, Ruins

It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Moving, Games, Rivals

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

topic: Strong, Jealous, Rivals

There live a great man named Joe who was belittled by a loudmouth foe. While his rival would taunt and tease Joe silently bore the stings. And then fought like gladiator in the ring.

- Muhammad Ali

source: "The Soul of a Butterfly". Book by Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, 2004.

topic: Men, Rivals, Tease, Taunting

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Imagination, Mind, Rivals

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

source: Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Dark Tales (Illustrated Edition): Gothic Classics: “The House of the Seven Gables”, “The Minister’s Black Veil”, “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, “Birthmark”, “An Old Woman’s Tale”, “Ghost of Doctor Harris”…”, p.306, e-artnow

topic: Energy, Depth, Rivals

Having a persistent nature is part of being human. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to speak of knowing another person, or loving them, or being their friend or enemy or rival.

- Neal Stephenson

source: "Neal Stephenson Speaks about His Latest Epic: 'Seveneves'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 21, 2015.

topic: Knowing, Enemy, Rivals

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

- Emile M. Cioran

source: Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.105, Arcade Publishing

topic: Philosophical, Love Is, Rivals, Hairdresser, Losing Love

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

- Jack Nicklaus

topic: Careers, Rivals, Wells

Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer.

- Nelson Mandela

source: "Mindfulness in Everyday Life: The Heart of Leadership, An Ode to Nelson Mandela" by Donna Rockwell, PsyD, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2013.

topic: Inspiring, Rivals, Keep Your Friends Close

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

- C. S. Lewis

source: C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Rivals, Fit, Moments

This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.

- James Madison

source: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.240

topic: Opposites, Rivals, Might

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.

- Orison Swett Marden

source: Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2455, e-artnow

topic: Men, Soul, Rivals, Greatest Achievement

I can say that Thiago Silva has no rival in his position. He is by far the best defender in the world. It’s a compliment for me to be compared to him.

- Paolo Maldini

topic: World, Rivals, Compliment