Quotes About Rivalry

Mary found this insulting. It implied that she was Elizabeth's inferior.

Elizabeth's right to succeed her elder sister on the grounds of bastardy and Protestantism

It was to taint the relationship of Mary and Elizabeth for the rest of their lives.

An intense rivalry developed between adherents of the Pléiade and those rhetoricians, classicists

Elizabeth was still acutely sympathetic to Mary;

his goal, unlike Elizabeth's, was to keep her off the throne.

she continued so relentlessly to set her sights on recognition as the heir to a woman who was only nine years older

Arran and Lennox were rival claimants to the succession. Their families were old enemies;

I told him there is no Words with Friends in this life: there is only Scrabble, with enemies.

You're fortunate I've already beaten someone else to death today, gunslinger. I have a schedule to keep.

Few Allied generals can have hated each other more than Patton and Montgomery.

We're going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket …

He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he.

Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport.

I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying even your best friend a little

I thought the issue was settled until at the end he said, 'Listen, pal, if I can't play sports, you're going to play them for me,' and I lost part of myself to him, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

I felt better. Yes, I sensed it like the sweat of relief when nausea passes away; I felt better. We were even after all, even in enmity. The deadly rivalry was on both sides after all.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

most scientific rival of the germ theory explained disease in terms purely of chemistry. It saw disease as a chemical process.

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.

Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.