I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals. — Hermann Maier Copy Share Image
In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is greed or financial difficulty that makes people fix matches, not gaining an edge over rivals, so it is different from… — Neil Robertson Copy Share Image
But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I've been fighting injuries recently more than facing rivals in the ring. — Vitali Klitschko Copy Share Image
Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Slowly but surely, people don't see 'Popstars: The Rivals,' they see Girls Aloud. We're a band in our own right. — Nadine Coyle Copy Share Image
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and… — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for… — Ron Clarke Copy Share Image
There is no way to avoid the reality that the American government in the past years has been the most spectacularly hypocrisy-driven… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The ideal revolutionary command should effectively direct all planning and implementation. It must not allow the growth of any other rival center… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
“Mira was scowling. It annoyed her, almost as a matter of principle, that anyone of this man's age, race, gender, wealth, and… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe,… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
“Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
What care though rival cities soar Along the stormy coast, Penn's town, New York, Baltimore, If Boston knew the most! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals. — Dayron Robles Copy Share Image
“My love is unique. No one can rival her, for she is the most beautiful girl alive. Just by passing, she has… — Tyne O'Connell Copy Share Image
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself. — Franz Stampfl Copy Share Image
it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
Rivals are not your enemies; for they are the people who tend to seek to surpass each other helping each others by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are playing, you play as rivals. When off the field, we are friends. I feel that's a good thing. That's… — Shikhar Dhawan Copy Share Image
“I thought how wise he was to lure his rival out into the woods, where every fight's fair.” — Peter Geye Copy Share Image