Best 70 quotes in «rivals quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

High prices can be the result of speculation, and maybe plunging prices can be attributed to the end of speculation, but low prices over time aren't caused by speculation. That's oversupply, mainly by Saudi Arabia flooding the market with low-priced oil to discourage rival oil producers, whether it's Russian oil or American fracking.

Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.

Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.

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.

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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.

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.

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good.

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

Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.

Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.

Don't make such decisions whose bad results make you look like you are your own enemy.

Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?' 'That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel.

Even while we hate, we still have that deep unusual  compassion for our rivals, and they hate it when they realize that we are feeling sorry for them.

Self respect and reality is tough rival when it comes to balance it honestly.

How can I shut down If you don't open up??