Rivalry Quotes - Page 8

• I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

  Rob Corddry

  Faults, Feels, Persons

  "Rob Corddry Talks ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH, Voicing His First Animated Feature, Earning an Eagle Scout Badge, WARM BODIES and PAIN & GAIN". collider.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Sex, Quarrels, Foe

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• Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Sibling, Office, Political

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• It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive behavior of aphysical or verbal kind. The principle needs to be this: Whatever the reasons for your feelings you will have to find civilized solutions.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Sibling, Feelings, Principles

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s rivalry between the Harry Potter fans and the Twilight fans. And Twilight fans think they’re much cooler than the Harry Potter fans. And I’m like, I dunno why, they’d all get their butts kicked by the Doctor Who fans.

  Matt Smith

  Twilight, Thinking, Doctors

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• With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises. Fluid prose, gore galore and all-too human characters make this unusual, fast-paced novella a must for fans who like their horror served blood-rare.

  Kealan Patrick Burke

  Butterfly, Character, Blood

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• Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Perfection, Faults

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• Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

  Anthony Zinni

  Pride, Building, Morale

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• In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Vocabulary, Connotation, Should

  "Kafka and His Precursors" (1951) (translation by James E. Irby)

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• I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global basis. The traditional patterns of national rivalry and national competition are not suitable for those cases.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Issues, Competition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The adoration of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament is the end of the Church Militant, just as adoration of God in His glory is the end of the Church Triumphant. A holy rivalry, a concert of prayer, a harmony of divine service should exist between the heavenly court and the Eucharistic court here below, between the adorer and his mother the Church.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Mother, Jesus, Prayer

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• New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone. There's a nice sense of reality on the set and it's really enjoyable. There's a good camaraderie and a good banter between the obviously New Zealand and Australian rivalry.

  Dustin Clare

  Nice, Mean, Reality

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• We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.

  Pope Francis

  Agreement, Two, Church

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• The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.

  Fred Armisen

  Country, Hate, Feels

  "Fred Armisen On SNL’s ‘The Californians’ Sketch: ‘I’m So Glad Cities Have Personalities’" by Anna Almendrala, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19,2012.

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