Quotes About Rivalry

The gas project was particularly compelling to some policymakers in India, who hoped that a natural gas link would tie India and Pakistan together with common interests that would help to off-set decades of conflict and rivalry. They called it a "peace pipeline." To say the project was "challenging" was an understatement.

over the rest of this century—than any other grouping. The G2 comprises just two countries —the United States and China—which together represent about 40 percent of the world's GDP and 50 percent of its military spending. The G2 is not an alliance or a forum for decision-making. Rather, it underlines the importance of the relationship between these two countries—and their new rivalry—and its impact on the entire world.

Yemen may be a prototype for a chaos nation. It has also, because of its strategic location, turned into a critical battleground in the great rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran in the modern Middle East. "From now on, we can't speak about [the] Syrian army, Hezbollah, Yemeni army, Iraqi army, and Iranian army," Hezbollah television announced. "We must speak about one resistance axis operating in all theaters.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer.

Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.

One proof of the excellence of this amiable woman's character is that all who loved her loved each other, even jealousy and rivalry submitting to the more powerful sentiment with which she inspired them; and I never saw any of those who surrounded her entertain the least ill will among themselves. Let the reader pause a moment in this encomium, and if he can recollect any other woman who deserves it, let him attach himself to her if he would obtain happiness.

Victory breeds hatred

They accumulate A world in which Man is by his nature the enemy of Man

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

By the end of his first year in office, Jackson was permanently estranged from Calhoun and had settled on Van Buren as his successor

In politics there is a large difference between loosing and being defeated.

He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualities.

She ought to know that if you want to set yourself up as queen and have everything the way you want it and keep sisters apart then you're not going to have a big fan club. She ought to know that where there's a queen there's often a plot to overthrow her.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Excitement is impossible where there is no contest.

She may be your own sister, honey, your own flesh and blood, but you've got to face it, deep down inside she hates you like poison and nothing would please her more than to see you get it right in the neck. The

She may be your own sister, honey, your own flesh and blood, but you've got to face it, deep down inside she hates you like poison and nothing would please her more than to see you get it right in the neck.

Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred.

She was so plain that neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing her with perfect sincerity, and with the naive and firm conviction women have that dress can make a face pretty.

The wise man waits and his enemies tear each other to pieces

Anybody can act violently--there is nothing to it, but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.