Rivals Quotes
254 quotes by 233 authors
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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
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
— Pablo Casals
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The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would…
— Tom Ridge
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The real key to Jack's [Nicklaus] success was his fantastic ability to score. His drives sometimes went into the rough, but he could plow the…
— Gardner Dickinson
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In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you…
— Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are…
— Roland Barthes
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It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a…
— John Stuart Mill
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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…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.
— Honore de Balzac
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It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases…
— Francis Galton
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man.....it is simply…
— Thomas Huxley
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They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor and…
— Pat Derby
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The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that…
— Anson Dorrance
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I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the…
— Venus Williams
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There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that…
— A.J. Ayer
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the…
— Charles Lyell
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