Rivals famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
-- A.J. Ayer -
England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them
-- Alice Hoffman -
First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
-- Alva Myrdal -
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
-- Andre Malraux -
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.
-- Andreï Makine -
Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.
-- Anne Robinson -
There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace
-- Bernard Hinault -
The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs - would end up magnifying each other's sins rather than keeping each other in check.
-- Bethany McLean -
As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.
-- Betty Grable -
A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.
-- Charles Boyer -
The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
-- Christopher Hampton -
...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise
-- David Fairchild -
I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.
-- Dawn Fraser -
Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.
-- Edwin Booth -
I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.
-- Ehud Barak -
In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.
-- Emilia Clarke -
In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.
-- Franz Stampfl -
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
-- George William Russell -
Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.
-- Grace Kelly -
To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his authority.
-- Graham Kendrick -
After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.
-- Gunter Grass -
Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.
-- H. L. Mencken -
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
-- Harold Bloom -
I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.
-- Hermann Maier -
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.
-- Honore de Balzac -
A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . . . He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.
-- Hugh Nibley -
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
-- James Lovelock -
Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them.
-- James Parton -
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
-- Jean Racine -
Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.
-- Jean-Marie Le Pen -
When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals.
-- Jenny Frost -
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
-- John Boyd Orr -
We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.
-- John C. Danforth -
To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith -
The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.
-- John Mearsheimer -
I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.
-- Jonathan Dimbleby -
No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop
-- Jose Marti -
Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.
-- Joseph Addison -
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
-- Joseph McCabe -
William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.
-- Kenneth Tynan -
The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.
-- Kristi Yamaguchi -
I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.
-- Lech Walesa -
Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.
-- Man Ray -
I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?
-- Marc Webb -
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going.
-- Mark Cane -
The Australian Open attracts one of the most competitive line-ups in the world and I’m looking forward to putting the heat on some of my old on-court rivals.
-- Mark Philippoussis -
No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win.
-- Mas Oyama -
If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
-- Michael Porter -
Paris Hilton isn't my rival. I met her one or two times and she's making out there's this big rivalry between us and there so isn't.
-- Mischa Barton -
Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.
-- Morton Blackwell -
For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.
-- Morton Feldman -
I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.
-- Muhammad Iqbal -
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The good is the greatest rival of the best.
-- Nellie L. McClung -
Keep your friends close — and your rivals even closer.
-- Nelson Mandela -
An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.
-- Nick Hornby -
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
-- Novalis -
I can say that Thiago Silva has no rival in his position. He is by far the best defender in the world. It’s a compliment for me to be compared to him.
-- Paolo Maldini -
We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.
-- Paulo Coelho -
I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?
-- Philippa Gregory -
I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.
-- Picabo Street -
Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.
-- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos -
No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
-- Propertius -
Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you...
-- Rex Stout -
As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?
-- Richard Attias -
Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.
-- Richard Dawkins -
Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.
-- Richard Dawkins -
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
-- Robert Anton Wilson -
Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
-- Robert Anton Wilson -
-He's his rival in love!*inuyasha hits shippo*why'd you do that!? shippo,if you bug inuyasha you'll only feel his fist.-Miroku+shippo
-- Rumiko Takahashi -
The ideal revolutionary command should effectively direct all planning and implementation. It must not allow the growth of any other rival center of power. There must be one command pooling and directing the subsequent governmental departments, including the armed forces.
-- Saddam Hussein -
Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival.
-- Sara Genn -
And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
-- Scott Westerfeld -
Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.
-- Sid Waddell -
Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each other. To Strange's surprize Childermass understood perfectly and even addressed one or twoquestions to Minervois in his own language. Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.
-- Susanna Clarke -
Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.
-- Thiruvalluvar -
Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.
-- Thomas Seward -
My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is.
-- Valentino Garavani -
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
-- Virgil Thomson -
Unfortunately, I've been fighting injuries recently more than facing rivals in the ring.
-- Vitali Klitschko -
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
-- Wallace Stevens -
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
-- Will Durant -
How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.
-- Willard Van Orman Quine -
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
-- William E. Gladstone -
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right .
-- William E. Gladstone -
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
-- William Ralph Inge -
But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
-- William Wordsworth -
Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.
-- Arthur Desmond -
I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals.
-- Dayron Robles
