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Quotes About Rivalry

Tell me this," Pudge would often ask me, as he sat and read about the exorbitant funeral of a rival. "If he was the guy with all the power, then how come he's riding in the lead car, stuffed inside a coffin?
~ Lorenzo Carcaterra
Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore. Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, Eek.
~ Jim Butcher
The Queen smiled with the tiniest twitch of a single corner of her mouth. Why should I do that? Because I'm coming, Octavian's image said, very quietly, for you. The Queen stood as unmoving as stone. When I'm finished, Octavian promised, nothing will be left of your kind but stories. I will burn your homes. I will bury your warriors. His voice grew even softer. I will blacken your sky with crows.
~ Jim Butcher
When the Queens of Summer and Winter took to the same field, there were always storms.
~ Jim Butcher
I want five minutes alone with Dresden." "No offense, Nick," I said, "but that's about five minutes longer than I want to spend with you.
~ Jim Butcher
Gard. "Marcone
~ Jim Butcher
Tonight, he is the enemy of my enemy." Toot gasped and gripped his spear more tightly. "A double enemy!
~ Jim Butcher
Price competition, Porter warns, is the most damaging form of rivalry. The more rivalry is based on price, the more you are engaged in competing to be the best.
~ Joan Magretta
The five forces framework applies in all industries for the simple reason that it encompasses relationships fundamental to all commerce: those between buyers and sellers, between sellers and suppliers, between rival sellers, and between supply and demand.
~ Joan Magretta
I've never viewed you as an enemy, more an adversary...
~ Joanne Harris
Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
~ Major Owens
Their delight seemeth not so much to be in the catch, nor in the chase, but in hoping to see me trip and hurt myself as I fall.
~ Unknown
Things seem a little prickly between the two comics. Stephen Fry is the next player out and the two of them end up in a cash game back at the hotel. I hear that Fry gets the better of Gervais again, is not above a few cheeky put-downs when he wins the pot, and Gervais snaps, 'I might be bad at poker, but at least I'm not gay.
~ Unknown
The least is the worst enemy of the most.
~ Unknown
Two people may become enemies when their ideas are the same.
~ Unknown
No creo en el diablo. Si Dios existe no puede tener rival. El infierno es nuestra ambición del mal.
~ Violette Leduc
Jagjivan Ram hated Charan Singh who hated the RSS which hated the Socialists. And, oh yes, everybody hated Morarji. á
~ Unknown
I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.
~ Vladimir Kramnik
Haha come fight us now Napoleon
~ Vladimir Putin
[Donald] Trump is a [Hillary] Clinton Christmas gift.
~ Carly Fiorina
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.
~ Bill Gates
You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster.
~ Cassandra Clare
Coppi? Is he the one we followed in the Giro del Piemonte? The guy who is as skinny as an asparagus? He doesn't lack courage, I'll give you that, but I think he's kind of fragile.
~ Gino Bartali
Our dad made everything competitive for me and brother. It always was a world championship, a national championship, Big 10 championship. It was always at stake in everything we did.
~ John Harbaugh