Quotes About Rivalry

Besides, our nearness to the King in love Is near the hate of those love not the King.

The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.

I think it's fun to love-to-hate people.

Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

where we won't have to watch old Scooter show off all day.

Yard Apes! yelled Ramona, her name for the sort of boys who always got the best balls, who were always first on the playground, and who chased their soccer balls through other people's hopscotch games.

Seldom – perhaps never – has science been driven forward more swiftly and successfully by animosity.

I had no idea that the Scottish so loathed the English that their favorite team in the world is whichever one is presently playing England.

Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment. Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport.

Sun Tzu said, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport. As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking.

When Sun Tzu said, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer," he had a point.

We spent so many years searching for an archrival for Jordan—the Frazier to his Ali, someone who'd bring out the best in him—when really, that player was probably Len Bias. We were robbed.

Their relentless competitiveness brought out the worst in opponents; I always found it fascinating that, for a team that ended up in so many fights, the Pistons never threw the first punch

By the time Payton had finished whipping him like a dominatrix, Stockton was thirty-four and heading toward the twilight of his career.

The brutes do not admire each other. A horse does not admire his companion. Not that there is no rivalry between them in a race, but that is of no consequence; for, when in the stable, the heaviest and most ill-formed does not give up his oats to another as men would have others do to them. Their virtue is satisfied with itself.

Conway agreed with Bannon that if the Trump campaign could make the race about Hillary, not Trump, they would win with those hidden Trump voters. If the race stayed about Trump, "we'll probably lose.

Cohn concluded that Trump just loved to pit people against each other.

Trump just loved to pit people against each other.

You want Felicity. And you're trying to buy her.' Deerhurst shoved him backward. 'What if I am? How is that different from you keeping a place you don't want just so you can hang about her? I've seen how you look at her.' Rafe shoved back, hard enough to send the earl staggering against the wall. 'Don't start something you won't be conscious for at the finish.

No day is safe from news of you. --from The Rival, written July 1961

Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow and torment me.

I gathered all my news of Joan into a little, bitter heap, though I received it with surface gladness. Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow and torment me.