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Quotes About Rivalry

How can you become the leader of Romany if you're a prince of Oxenburg? I have three brother. And as Tata Natasha is fond of telling us, there is not room on the throne for four asses.
~ Karen Hawkins
IN MOST FAMILIES, there is a favorite child. Parents deny it and maybe they truly don't see it, but it's obvious to the children. Unfairness bothers children greatly. It's hard to always come in second.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
If you can't beat them, divide them.
~ Karen Traviss
Oh, I'm coming too." BB rotated and moved in Naomi's direction. "A fragment of me will remain here to pilot the ship, but I'll transfer to the Mjolnir. We've never done this for real before, by the way. Have we, Naomi?" "Why now?" "Why not? I know I'm not your dedicated AI, but I can do anything Cortana can." Mal picked up a little rivalry there. He'd have to ask about Cortana later.
~ Karen Traviss
Georgia had beaten Auburn last night. The town was sleeping off the win.
~ Karin Slaughter
The reason that women do not love one another is - men.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I get to my feet when Chelsea fans sing 'Stand up if you hate Man U'. But though I hate them, I have to admire them too.
~ Ken Bates
If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Victory passes back and forth between men.
~ Homer
It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]
~ Publilius Syrus
We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
~ Alexander Pope
[Muhammad] Ali had [Jo] Frazier , that man had the joker, Coke had Pepsi and [Donald] Trump had [Barack] Obama, or 16 primary opponents or the entire political establishment.
~ Chuck Todd
Chisora's not a nice man, not a nice human being.
~ David Haye
It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.
~ Faith Hunter
There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.
~ George Eliot
Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.
~ Mickey Mantle
when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane.
~ Peggy Noonan
I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
~ Oliver Stone
A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.
~ Honore de Balzac
Killing your rival doesn't guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones.
~ Jeaniene Frost
The two men eyed each other. Assessing strengths. Looking for weaknesses. Measuring dicks once again
~ Jennifer Estep
The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured.
~ Jennifer Estep