"Bear patiently with a rival."

-- Ovid

#Enemy Quotes #Rivals Quotes #Bears Quotes

“Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.”
“You get depressed because you're like, 'Everybody's working and I'm here sitting.' I feel for all gymnasts who get hurt. Injuries are just awful, but at least I had 'Bones' to work on when I wasn't training. It got my mind off the fact that I couldn't do anything.”
“Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.”

Source : 'The Crock of Gold' (1912) bk. 1, ch. 4
“I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.”
“The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.”
“To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe”
“Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.”

Source : Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.”

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