Rivals Quotes
254 Rivals quotes by 232 unique authors
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Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win.
— Mas Oyama
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In all of America, there is no more promising an urban area for revitalization than your own Over-the-Rhine. When I look at that remarkably untouched,…
— Arthur Frommer
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The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Anything that effects our decisions besides that of the Glory of God and His Will Alone is an idol. Why are people so free to…
— David Wilkerson
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Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in…
— Germaine Greer
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Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each…
— Susanna Clarke
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Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search…
— Frederick Douglass
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Unfortunately, I've been fighting injuries recently more than facing rivals in the ring.
— Vitali Klitschko
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No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each…
— Herbert Hoover
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I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find…
— Pat Summitt
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As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't…
— Betty Grable
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The good is the greatest rival of the best.
— Nellie L. McClung
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I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
— Christopher Hampton
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In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.
— Franz Stampfl
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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each…
— Oscar Wilde
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If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then…
— Bertrand Russell
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Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical arsenal needed for…
— Daniel L. Akin
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Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous.…
— Stephen Prothero
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Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals…
— Johan Cruijff
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China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S.…
— Jo Ann Emerson
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But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be…
— Helen Garner
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The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival…
— Aldous Huxley
Who Wrote These Rivals Quotes
232 authors contributed a total of 254 Rivals Quotes, led by these top contributors: