Quotes of: Rival Keyword

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

Robert Anton Wilson

As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?

Richard Attias

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

Kristi Yamaguchi

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

Henry A. Wallace

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.

John Gresham Machen

People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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.

Alice Hoffman

Ekrem: [shouting for his favorite team in the middle of a crowd with people who chants for the rival team] Arsenal, Arsenal!

Eastern Promises

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.

Bernhard von Bulow

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.

Imre Lakatos

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

Thomas Huxley

I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.

Peter Storey

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.

Nicholas D. Kristof

... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

Don Quixote

America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom.

Enchantment

(My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.)

Bossypants

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

Killosophy

Many today view love and doctrine as enemies, or at best as rivals.

Sound Doctrine: How a Church Grows in the Love and Holiness of God

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

My Education

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

The Other Boleyn Girl

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.

Abraham Maslow