Rivals Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Congratulations to one of my favorite opponents and greatest rivals on returning to the WWE. The Rock is the BEST promo man of all time.

  Chris Jericho

  Congratulations, Men, Rocks

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2011

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• Could there possibly have been an incumbent more easy to knock-off than George W. Bush? A real-life opposition party would have been insulted to be matched with a such an unworthy and frail rival. The Democrats, by contrast, got their lights punched out.

  Marc Cooper

  Real, Party, Light

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• Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
  Then beauty is its own excuse for being:
  Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
  I never sought to ask, I never knew:
  But, in my simple ignorance suppose
  The selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Ignorance, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Rhodora”

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• If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

  C. S. Lewis

  Fit, Moments, Pupils

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Criticism, Noble, Critics

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 149-52, Curiosities of Literature, Literary Journals, 1922.

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• Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.

  Hesiod

  Jealous, Competition, Enemy

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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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• 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

  Order, Courtship, Please

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• A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.

  Edwin Booth

  Christian, Rejoice, Superiority

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• I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

  Ehud Barak

  Sides, Politician, Both Sides

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• I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

  Chris Cleave

  Athlete, Thinking, Two

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• I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.

  Peter Storey

  Legs, Broke, Feels

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• In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival.
  Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado.

  Ka

  Rap, Men, Hip Hop

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• If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.

  William James

  Fun, Fighting, Survival

  William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.412, Courier Corporation

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• Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people, custodians of the American heritage. It is my task to report the State of the Union--to improve it is the task of us all.

  John F. Kennedy

  People, Progress, Custodians

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.5, Best Books on

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• It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.

  Todd McFarlane

  Growing Up, Couple, Book

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• 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

  Crush, People, Priests

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2012). “Purple Hibiscus: A Novel”, p.220, Algonquin Books

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• The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

  Andre Malraux

  Artist, World

  "L'Intemporel". Book by Andre Malraux, 1976.

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• Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm. ?

  Camille Paglia

  Block, Moving, Men

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is not that he wished to leave certain perspectives open, nor to please everyone. It is rather that he was identifying himself, for his part, with a consciousness of self, of the world, and of others that was "strange" (the word is his) in a sense which is equally well destroyed by the rival explanations.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Self, Perspective, World

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• Life is art's rival and vice versa.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Vices, Life Is

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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