Quotes About Rivalry

stringing up rival kings on trees, rejoicing in piles of heads – there was an element of childish glee in all of that.

Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. ~Margaret Mead

These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.

She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself, and the sight of India Wilkes and Stuart at the speaking had been too much for her predatory nature.

To her, all women, including her two sisters, were natural enemies in pursuit of the same prey--man.

It will serve you right if that sly piece does accept one of you," she said. "Or maybe she'll accept both of you, and then you'll have to move to Utah, if the Mormons'll have you—which I doubt…. All that bothers me is that some one of these days you're both going to get lickered up and jealous of each other about that two-faced, little, green-eyed baggage, and you'll shoot each other. But that might not be a bad idea either.

and jealous of each other about that two-faced, little, green-eyed baggage

Apple is our mentor, Facebook is our enemy.

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.

Roger Federer certainly is my claim to be the best of all time - if there is such a thing. With Rafael Nadal not far behind.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

I don't know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.

Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

La rivalidad entre hermanos es una serpiente que nunca se puede acabar de matar.

And Charlotte, she knew, would be no rival, because Charlotte always spoilt any visual effect she might have made as soon as she opened her mouth! Why did Charlotte always have to say what she thought, instead of what she certainly had enough wit to know people wished?

I will never forgive you for consuming every last little drop of our parents' attention and leaving nothing for the rest of us.

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

When a single nation's armies are ordered against each other, all is lost.

Seizing on the reduced-ranks situation, Gotti urged Gigante to reinforce his family with forty additional men. Sammy the Bull Gravano knew that Gotti was scheming to undercut Gigante and to court loyalty from the new Genovese cadre by informing them that he was responsible for their admission into Cosa Nostra.

You seem to forget, Dickon, that we are dealing with the Spider King. Louis realized, just as you have, that it would take more to mate dog to cat than a shared lust for the English crown.