Rivals Quotes - Page 11

• There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Successful, Feelings, Worship

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• The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of those people for many, many years, is an amazing pleasure and a hit that some people say, and I've never done heroin, but some people say that it rivals the heroin hit, so there is that pleasure. The-it kills you the same way that heroin kills you.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Views, Years, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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

  Growth, Planning, Revolutionary

  "Saddam Hussein: a political biography". Book by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, 2002.

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• It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway than were to be found in Brest harbour. But her frigates and corvettes still scoured the ocean, closely followed ever by those of her rival. At the uttermost ends of the earth these dainty vessels, with sweet names of girls or of flowers, mangled and shattered each other for the honour of the four yards of bunting which flapped from the end of their gaffs.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Girl, Sweet, Ocean

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.6881, Delphi Classics

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• Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

  Roland Barthes

  Strong, Struggle, Joy

  Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). “Barthes: Selected Writings”

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• In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance.

  Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

  Barton Gellman

  Mom, Jobs, Love Life

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• Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.

  Ron Fournier

  Lying, Years, Negativity

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• Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.

  Helen Fisher

  Girl, Eye, Names

  "Jealousy — The Monster". www.oprah.com.

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• He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Life, Conceited, Narcissism

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 10, 1799.

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• 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

  Needs, Addresses, Might

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.144, Vintage

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• If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Envy, Hatred

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.122, Commodius Vicus

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• Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to Stalin in Moscow 1936 where he finished in 1st place, 1 point ahead of Botvinnik)

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Cheating, Player, Order

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• The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Feelings, Good Feeling, Felt

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• The real key to Jack's [Nicklaus] success was his fantastic ability to score. His drives sometimes went into the rough, but he could plow the ball out of the tallest grass and get it on the green; bad lies simply didn't affect him as they did the others. Jack also got tremendous height with his one-iron and two-iron, which meant that he could stop them better than his rivals.

  Gardner Dickinson

  Real, Lying, Golf

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• Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Art, Athlete

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• 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

  Army, Two, Lasts

  Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera (2011). “All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis”, p.189, Penguin

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• Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

  John Boyd Orr

  Empires, Defeat, Fallen

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• The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list.

  Tom Ridge

  New York, Cities, Would Be

  "'A Second 9/11': An Integral Part of US Military Doctrine" by Michel Chossudovsky, www.globalresearch.ca. October 31, 2008.

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• China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  Years, Europe, Population

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• For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

  Morton Feldman

  Years, Chairs, Said

  Morton Feldman (2000). “Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman”

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• Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Women, Church, Devil

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• The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil altogether subside, are neutralized by subsequent generations, absorbed by the incessant movements of future ages. But the discoveries of great men never leave us; they are immortal; they contain those eternal truths which survive the shock of empires, outlive the struggles of rival creeds, and witness the decay of successive religions.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Struggle, Science, Men

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.208

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• The Lord Jesus Christ is in a class all by Himself; there are no competitors, no rivals; He is unique. He is Lord of all. He is King of kings, Lord of lords, the image of the invisible God. He is Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Preeminent One.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hands, Mind, Tails

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The collected poetry of Aldous Huxley”

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