Rivals Quotes
254 Rivals quotes by 232 unique authors
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of…
— Camille Paglia
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The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs -…
— Bethany McLean
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This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both…
— James Madison
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.
— Emilia Clarke
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Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.
— Richard Dawkins
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Paris Hilton isn't my rival. I met her one or two times and she's making out there's this big rivalry between us and there so…
— Mischa Barton
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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
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Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.
— Man Ray
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Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.
— Grace Kelly
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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…
— Roger Ebert
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Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson…
— Kate Elliott
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Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of…
— David Eagleman
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or…
— Harold Bloom
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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or…
— Ida B. Wells
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in…
— Will Durant
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For me, I'm in the driver's seat; I'm No. 1 in the world. I've won the last couple of meetings, and I've won the big…
— Roger Federer
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Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
— Emile M. Cioran
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No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five…
— Ron Clarke
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Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents; fear, too, of…
— Franz Stampfl
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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…
— George William Russell
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
— Gautama Buddha
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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this…
— Mark Cane
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