Rivals quotes
144 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"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."
"Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers."
"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."
"I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival."
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"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."
"He who is in love with himself has no rivals."
"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."
"I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him."
"But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation."
"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."
"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."
"When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals."
"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."
"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."
"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."
"Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival."
"Bear patiently with a rival."
"Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival."
"Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer."
"Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them."
"Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary."
"Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival."
"Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates."
"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."
