Quotes About Rivalry

I can be a good friend, or a bad enemy.

We were going to kill ourselves in trying to kill each other.

You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend.

You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I've got to kill someone, it might as well be you.

Oh, I thought. It's on, bitch!

Olvidaste otra lección: nunca des la espalda hasta que sepas que tu enemigo esta muerto. Parece que tendremos que recordar la lección la próxima vez que te vea —que será pronto. Con amor, D. • capítulo 30

Miller just hated Roosevelt," Jones says, "and Lyndon was in tune with Miller. Hell, sometimes he was louder against Roosevelt than Miller was.

We organized First and Second Volunteer Defense Gunners of Free Luna-two regiments so that First could snub lowly Second and Second could be jealous of First.

But when Aphrodite is confronting her daughter-in-law she is jealous, competitive and determined to set out hurdles for Psyche at every turn.

After all, even those who create Disinformation Systems have themselves swallowed Disinformation Systems devised by their rivals. As Henry Kissinger once said, Anybody in Washington who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention.

Learn to destroy your enemies by opening holes in their own reputations. Then stand aside and let public opinion hang them.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: He knows where to strike. DIANF DE POITIERS, 1499-1566, MISTRESS OF HENRI II OF FRANCE

Once, early on, while still engaged in shipping and sidetracked by a rare vacation in his lavish, specially built yacht, he came back to find that his partners had ousted him from his firm. The classic Vanderbilt response? I won't sue you for the law is too slow. I will ruin you!

În curând începu t?ierea È™i primul zmeu înfrânt, sc?pat de sub control, se pr?buÈ™i într-un vârtej. C?deau din cer ca stelele c?z?toare, cu cozile lor lungi, scânteietoare, pres?rând cartierele de dedesubt cu daruri pentru competitorii r?maÈ™i, fiindc? erau ele însele mult-râvnitele trofee.

Bug!" Francis exclaimed. "You're a—" His words choked off with a rasp as I jerked my arm. "Bug?" Jenks shouted, incensed. "You sack of sweat stink. I've got farts that smell sweeter than you. Think you're better than me? Poop ice cream cones, do you? Call me a bug! Rachel, let me do him now!

As Mel ushered me into a seat in front of my mirror, I demanded, "This is how I'm supposed to compete with Clotile?

Enemigos mortales... tentaciones prohibidas.

All's fair in love and Lore.

Pareces sentir curiosidad por él." "Es mi enemigo. Es una buena idea aprender sobre él.

We are vain and we are dishonest because it is necessary to triumph over other vain and dishonest persons.

People don't want their lives improved. They want the lives of people they hate made worse.

The trouble with two partners having separate sets of mortal enemies is that said enemies don't always make distinctions.

In a sense, the Republicans and Democrats had been professional athletic teams, striving mightily to defeat each other for the money, the spectacle, for victory itself, but for nothing else. They might even exchange members, who would be expected to play as hard for their new team as they had for their old.