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Quotes About Rivalry

Când Nobu a intrat în înc?pere, zâmbetul fermec?tor al lui Hatsumomo a înflorit, pân? când buzele ei pline au ajuns ca dou? uriaÈ™e pic?turi de sânge adunate la gura unei r?ni.
~ Arthur Golden
One man spat out at Wilkes, "I would rather vote for the Devil than for you," to which Wilkes replied, "And if your friend is not standing?
~ Arthur H. Cash
But here Billy Chope arrived to demand what the 'ell Sam Cardew was doing with his gal. Now Sam was ever readier for a fight than Billy was; but the sum of Billy's half pints was large: wherefore the fight began. On the skirt of a hilarious ring Lizerunt, after some small outcry, triumphed aloud. Four days before, she had no bloke; and here she stood with two, and those two fighting for her! Here in the public gaze, on the Flats! For almost five minutes she was Helen of Troy.
~ Arthur Morrison
Accordingly, the loss of the beloved one through a rival, or through death, is the greatest pain of all to those passionately in love; just because it is of a transcendental nature, since it affects him not merely as an individual, but also assails him in his essentia aeterna, in the life of the species, in whose special will and service he was here called. This is why jealousy is so tormenting and bitter, and the giving up of the loved one the greatest of all sacrifices.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Politics have long been defined as "the systematic organization of hatreds.
~ Stacy Schiff
everything that lifts people above their fellows arouses both emulation and jealousy.
~ Stacy Schiff
Indeed Cleopatra murdered her siblings, but Herod murdered his children.
~ Stacy Schiff
The Horned God, however, is born of a Virgin mother. He is a model of male power that is free from father-son rivalry or oedipal conflicts. He has no father; He is his own father.*
~ Starhawk
Legitimate brothers were all too likely to go to war over an inheritance. Bastards had to hitch their fortunes to the king and his designated heir, and many kings produced them with abandon.
~ Stephanie Coontz
Taken all together, 1952 is recalled as one of the bitterest campaigns of the twentieth century, and the one that featured the most mudslinging.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
He's your enemy, Donald!' 'He most certainly is not,' said Trefusis. 'Not unless I say so. He may dearly want to be my enemy, he may beg on bended knee for open hostility of the most violent kind, but it takes two to tangle. I choose my own enemies.
~ Stephen Fry
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
~ Stephen King
I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.
~ Stephen King
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
~ Benjamin Franklin
wasn't sure men would ever understand the infinitely subtle weaponry women used against each other.
~ Jojo Moyes
I'm going to kick your stupid marathon-running shins so hard you're going to think 157th was actually a good result.
~ Jojo Moyes
Squash is boxing with racquets.
~ Jonah Barrington
She'd gone on the attack against a better-liked rival whose platform more closely mirrored the values of the party's base, creating a boomerang effect on her personal standing. Perhaps
~ Jonathan Allen
if philosophy develops in the right ways, it might help ease the conflicts between rival dogmatic certainties. But, even if this hope is right, philosophy will never be a quick fix. Its influence is slow, the result of patient questioning and discussion.
~ Jonathan Glover
There was a lot of animosity on the County side, a lot of jealously.
~ Jonathan Maberry
The text is candid about the dangers. In the heat of the moment, R. Yo?anan and Resh Lakish both say things they subsequently regret, with devastating consequences. But R. Yo?anan remains insistent that the search for truth can be no less important than the truth itself, that scholarship thrives on challenge, and that, as the sages put it, "rivalry between scribes increases wisdom
~ Jonathan Sacks
Well,' Lockwood said, "if you judge success by the number of enemies you make, that was a highly successful evening.
~ Jonathan Stroud
May my enemies live here [London] in summer!
~ Jonathan Swift
El fútbol es el bacilo de la guerra civil
~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela