Rival Quotes

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. (Djuna Barnes)
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. View quote
George William Russell
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival. View quote
André Malraux
It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached. View quote
Imre Lakatos
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. View quote
Salman Rushdie
But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. View quote
William Wordsworth
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him. View quote
Jean Racine
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. View quote
Helen Fisher
First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. View quote
John Boyd Orr
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)
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. View quote
Saddam Hussein
I will not say with Lord Hale, that "the law will admit of no rival, and nothing to go even with it;" but I will say, that it is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favours, but by a lavish homage. View quote
Joseph Story
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. View quote
Joseph McCabe
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. View quote
Wallace Stevens
It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. View quote
Emil Cioran
In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time. View quote
Emil Cioran
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. View quote
Joseph Addison
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. View quote
Roger Ebert
Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must set out to please, so as to be preferred to him. If you don't have one, you must still please so as to obviate the possibility of having one. (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
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. View quote
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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. View quote
Willard van Orman Quine
When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block, as a confidant and not as a rival. View quote
André Maurois