Rival Quotes

174 Rival quotes by 156 unique authors

(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. — AndreÃ¯ Makine
There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in… — Leo Tolstoy
Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time. — Alyson Noel
I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we? — Philippa Gregory
My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart. — Michelle Moran
Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness,… — Sylvia Plath
And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight? — Scott Westerfeld
Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who… — Sri Chinmoy
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
Killing your rival doesn’t guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than… — Jeaniene Frost
In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time. — Emile M. Cioran
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… — Baruch Spinoza
Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Some spider silks are really strong, but not all of them are. The ones that are really strong can actually rival steel and approach the… — Cheryl Hayashi
As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop… — Richard Attias
Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11. — Loretta Lynch
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden
In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York which… — Jacob Ruppert
This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will… — Joe Lieberman
As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how… — Wayne Kramer
The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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… — Todd McFarlane
I am my own main rival. — Dayron Robles
A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are… — Jeff Lindsay
The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be… — C.S. Lewis

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