When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.
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 merit that vainly aspired to it.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.
I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.
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.
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
The buzz about Google these days is that it's like America itself: still the biggest game in town, but inevitably and irrevocably on the decline. Both are superpowers with unmatched resources, but both are faced with fast-growing rivals, and both wil...
I shrug. I'm an excellent shrugger. It's rivaled only by my ability to nod.
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.
I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.
If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.
Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
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 tensile strength of Kevlar. Thus far, the dragline silk seems to be the strongest.
Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.
Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!
