Rival Quotes

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 with impunity.

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 to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.

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 the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

I am my own main rival.

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

Bear patiently with a rival.

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

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.

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 eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.

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. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

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 it does not exist.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

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 them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

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 become his rival.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.