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Quotes About Rivalry

Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.
~ Matt Haig
Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.
~ Matt Haig
in less than a year Trump has succeeded in turning the USA into a massive high school—the candidate beams. What
~ Matt Taibbi
So long as we remain a bitterly divided two-party state, we'll never want for TV villains.
~ Matt Taibbi
As for the rest of them, God help us. Trump's continued success puts the onus on the field to try to out-crazy the frontrunner.
~ Matt Taibbi
Vilifying opponents "is too much the practice of many of our sects and parties.
~ Unknown
That list of yours… the enemy of my enemy doesn't have to be my friend, but it can still hurt my enemy.
~ Unknown
since the days of the great martyrs, that woman was ready with the same gift of self, the same patience, the same sacrifices, the same greatness of soul and was about—less perhaps in blood than in tears, for it is always on her that sorrow ends by falling—to prove herself the rival and the peer of man.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
O que constitui um enigma é a sua ligação, é o que está entre elas – é o facto de eu ver as coisas no seu devido lugar, precisamente porque elas se eclipsam umas às outras –, é o serem rivais perante o meu olhar, precisamente porque cada uma está no seu lugar.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Courage is essentially competitive and imitative.
~ Max Hastings
The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the blood price for destroying the tyranny of Hitler. Only simpletons of the political Right and Left dare to suggest that in Vietnam either side possessed a monopoly of virtue.
~ Max Hastings
Like all true tyrants, he has divided them, and makes them spend their heart's hatred on one another." "But
~ Unknown
You will pit one family, gathering, community, and nation against another until all are destroyed.
~ Unknown
Now that I'm caught up in it, I feel a whiff of panic. This is Diane. And just as before, we are thrown together, and just as before, we want the same thing. A prize, dangling.
~ Megan Abbott
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
Lake is jealous of mountain; mountain is jealous of lake!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy.
~ Melina Marchetta
Bananach sits on your throne, has declared herself Dark Queen." "She WHAT!?" Niall- or perhaps Irial-asked.
~ Melissa Marr
Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.
~ Melody Carlson
This whole theater of great tit socio-sexual opportunities, threats, decisions, and interactions is played out during the dawn chorus, when territorial males are flitting about nervously, loudly broadcasting their "dee-du" calls, and meanwhile keeping an eye on their own females and on rival males, as well as ogling female neighbors.
~ Unknown
You don't just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.
~ Mia Hamm
One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.
~ Michael Bloomberg
Party conferences can be such fun. They resemble a nest of cuckoos. Sit back and enjoy watching everyone trying to push the others out. The
~ Michael Dobbs
High rivalry limits the profitability of an industry P.32
~ Michael E. Porter