Quotes about Rival

I took my menial life for granted until it became clear, why my early years resulted in a lack of adoption.- J.D. Stroube (Rival: Prelude to the Mirage Chronicles.) Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create children of a beauty, perhaps of a harmony, previously unknown. Or long forgotten. Votes: 3

Bear patiently with a rival. Votes: 1

I am my own main rival. Votes: 1

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him. Votes: 1

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me. Votes: 1

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal. Votes: 1

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair. Votes: 1

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. Votes: 1

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. Votes: 1

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. Votes: 1

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that. Votes: 1

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. Votes: 1

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker. Votes: 1

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. Votes: 1

Some spider silks are really strong, but not all of them are. The ones that are really strong can actually rival steel and approach the tensile strength of Kevlar. Thus far, the dragline silk seems to be the strongest. Votes: 1

This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. Votes: 1

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing. Votes: 1

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. Votes: 1

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores. Votes: 1

Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival. Votes: 1

Life is art's rival and vice versa. Votes: 0

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors. Votes: 0

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival. Votes: 0

The good is the greatest rival of the best. Votes: 0

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop Votes: 0

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind. Votes: 0

Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival. Votes: 0

No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win. Votes: 0

Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ. Votes: 0

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight? Votes: 0

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace Votes: 0

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies. Votes: 0

Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time. Votes: 0

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets. Votes: 0

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival. Votes: 0

A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival. Votes: 0

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival! Votes: 0

Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame. Votes: 0

In arms and science tis the same Our rival's hurts create our fame. Votes: 0

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers. Votes: 0

Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11. Votes: 0

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival. Votes: 0

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. Votes: 0

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely. Votes: 0

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise Votes: 0

To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies. Votes: 0

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair. Votes: 0

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy. Votes: 0

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart. Votes: 0

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. Votes: 0

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival. Votes: 0

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. Votes: 0

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. Votes: 0

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself. Votes: 0

(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. Votes: 0

It was hard for them to accuse their wives of infidelity when their rival was an invisible man. Votes: 0

A rival may raise your game in the short-term. An Ally will raise your game for the long-term. Votes: 0

Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer. Votes: 0

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did. Votes: 0

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. Votes: 0

My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart. Votes: 0

If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal. Votes: 0

Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car. Votes: 0

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we? Votes: 0

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time. Votes: 0

In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival. Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado. Votes: 0

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival. Votes: 0

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives. Votes: 0

Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy. Votes: 0

What care though rival cities soar Along the stormy coast, Penn's town, New York, Baltimore, If Boston knew the most! Votes: 0

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival. Votes: 0

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship. Votes: 0

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war. Votes: 0

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. Votes: 0

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival. Votes: 0

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke. Votes: 0

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. Votes: 0

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America. Votes: 0

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. Votes: 0

Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams. Votes: 0

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival. Votes: 0

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job. Votes: 0

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. Votes: 0

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time. Votes: 0

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival. Votes: 0

In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself! Votes: 0

O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather. Votes: 0

Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival. Votes: 0

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival. Votes: 0

Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary. Votes: 0

Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other. Votes: 0

It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States. Votes: 0

Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time. Votes: 0

One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, His confidence and compassion increase every day. Votes: 0

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore. Votes: 0

-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 Votes: 0

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul. Votes: 0

My love is unique. No one can rival her, for she is the most beautiful girl alive. Just by passing, she has stolen my heart. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's a brilliant song! C'mon"'Every day is like survival. You're my lover, not my rival.' What could be more meaningful than that? (Jesse) Votes: 0

A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career. Votes: 0

In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity. Votes: 0

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside. Votes: 0

The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list... Votes: 0

President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride. Votes: 0

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival, Votes: 0

it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is already ahead in developing the same product. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Killing your rival doesn't guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones. Votes: 0

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced "” because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival. Votes: 0

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind. Votes: 0

The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins. Votes: 0

But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The rival ideologies of the left and right are both pining for the 50s. The only difference is that liberals want to work there, while conservatives want to go home there. Votes: 0

I guess what I'm really saying is something obvious - that there's a unique pride in watching a home team from rival turf, especially when we're not supposed to be any good. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine. A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise. A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness. Votes: 0

Chris Christie travelled to Ft. Worth, Texas, to give his blessing to a former rival who one week ago was approvingly discussing killing Muslim terrorists with bullets smeared in pig`s blood. Votes: 0

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens. Votes: 0

Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock. Votes: 0

Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival. Votes: 0

Sometimes it is good to lose in a game to make the rival happy; when you see the happiness on the face of your rival, you become the winner of your own game! Votes: 0

In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York which should rival the Giants on an even basis. Votes: 0

There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art. Votes: 0

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival. Votes: 0

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. Votes: 0

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased Votes: 0

The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0