Rivals Quotes - Page 9

• There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.

  Pliny the Elder

  Sea, Purple, Oil

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• In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.

  John Mearsheimer

  Fighting, Littles, Germany

  John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Nir Eyal

  Engagement, Faster, Grows

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• No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

  Honore de Balzac

  Dog, Art, Wind

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• 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

  Book, Style, Moses

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.15

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• Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

  Aristotle

  Sports, Men, People

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

  Toni Morrison

  Trouble, Loses

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

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• People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Team, Knowing, People

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• Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in Team of Rivals, he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

  Douglas Wilder

  Running, Team, Names

  "Obama-Clinton ticket for 2012" by Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. August 2, 2010.

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• One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.

  D. A. Carson

  Crush, Tolerance, Western Culture

  D. A. Carson (2009). “The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.

  Sid Waddell

  Golden, Underestimate, Rules Of Life

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

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• 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.

  Sarah Fielding

  Eye, Mean, Wish

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (1754). “The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable”, p.33

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

  Michelle Moran

  Heart, Unique, Love Is

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• In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!

  Paul Lafargue

  Men, Competition, Machines

  Paul Lafargue (1984). “Selected Marxist Writings of Paul Lafargue”

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• 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

  Men, Atheism, Ethics

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• What poet would not grieve to see
  His brother write as well as he?
  But rather than they should excel,
  He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.

  Jonathan Swift

  Brother, Writing, Grieving

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.655

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• 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.

  Will Durant

  Business, Ideas, Diversity

  Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• -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

  Fists, Bugs, Inuyasha

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• Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.

  Lewis Carroll

  Rude, Tea, Mind

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• We have set out to promote the work of community and faith-based charities. Government cannot be replaced by charities, but it can welcome them as partners instead of resenting them as rivals.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Government, Community

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• And then the rose-border. What intensity in those odorous buds of the Bon Silene, making the very spirit bound as though a message had reached it from heaven. And the verbena bed is compassed with fitful fragrance. Even the pansies, with their dewy eyes, are ready to rival the violets now.... Nor must the purple buds of the calycanthus be forgotten. 'Sweet-scented shrub' indeed; for let me hide but a single one of these in some fold of my dress, and the spices of Araby will float around me till the evening.

  Sarah Smiley

  Sweet, Eye, Purple

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• Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Hate, Enemy

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• 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!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Teacher, Winning

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• 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

  Wicked, Ruins, Politician

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

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