Rivals Quotes - Page 17

• In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

  Charles Darwin

  Change, Strength, Struggle

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• Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

  Morton Blackwell

  Mistake, Perfect, Winner

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• Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.

  Scott Simon

  Horse, Elephants, Waiting

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.76, Random House

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• To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Errors, Choices, Investing

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.351, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Emotional, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

  Joseph McCabe

  Atheism, Retreat, Scientist

  "The Existence of God". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1913.

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• Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence, and power. Indeed, business all too often pulls the strings of government. Competing institutions-religion, the press, even the military-play subordinate roles in much of the world today. If a values-driven approach to business can begin to redirect this vast power toward more constructive ends than the simple accumulation of wealth, the human race and Planet Earth will have a fighting chance.

  Ben Cohen

  Lying, Military, Fighting

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• We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Hate, Allies

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it.

  Paul Gallico

  Dog, Hate, Cat

  Paul Gallico (1972). “Honorable Cat”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth. () How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival - indeed, that she can put to shame - the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?

  Avro Manhattan

  Jesus, Names, Church

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• If you are to use Alexander Graham Bell’s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it as he would have wished; and Dr Bell insisted that all phone calls should begin with the words ‘Ahoy, ahoy’. Nobody knows why he insisted this – he had no connection to the navy – but insist he did and started every phone call that way. Nobody else did, and it was at the suggestion of his great rival Edison that people took to saying ‘Hello’. This seems unfair.

  Mark Forsyth

  Phones, People, Navy

  Mark Forsyth (2012). “Mark Forysth's Gemel Edition: The Etymologicon and The Horologicon ebook bundle”, p.334, Icon Books Ltd

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• Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Wind

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• O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.

  Helen Hunt

  Flower, Clouds, June

  H.H. (Helen Hunt) (1887). “Helen Jackson's Poems”

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• Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

  Roger Ebert

  Opportunity, Reality, Imagination

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

  Criss Jami

  Real, Mirrors, Competition

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.45, Criss Jami

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• It may be quite true that some negroes are better than some white men; but no rational man, cognisant of the facts, believes that the average negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the average white man. And, if this be true, it is simply incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed, and our prognathous relative has a fair field and no favour, as well as no oppressor, he will be able to compete successfully with his bigger-brained and smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried on by thoughts and not by bites.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "Emancipation – Black and White". Essay by Thomas Henry Huxley, mathcs.clarku.edu. 1865.

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• Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the Bible that they love you
  When really they no different from all your rivals.

  Nicki Minaj

  Hate, Love You, Self

  "Song: 'Pills N Potions'". 2014.

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• So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.

  Alexander Cockburn

  War, America, Drug

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• Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.

  Tertullian

  Flags, Violence, Christ

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• Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil.

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy

  Philosophy, Government, Giving

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• Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Self, Holocaust, Rabbits

  J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.21, Princeton University Press

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• Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Ideas, Apples

  "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Evolution as Fact and Theory", pp. 254 - 55, 1983.

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• Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Struggle, Reality, Gang

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• 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

  Literature, Poet

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• 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

  Real, Borders, Lasts

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