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I took my menial life for granted until it became clear, why my early years resulted in a lack of adoption.- J.D. Stroube (Rival: Prelude to the Mirage Chronicles.) -- J.D. Stroube
Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival. -- Sara Genn
I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create children of a beauty, perhaps of a harmony, previously unknown. Or long forgotten. -- Richard Rodriguez
Bear patiently with a rival. -- Ovid
I am my own main rival. -- Dayron Robles
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him. -- Jean Racine
Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me. -- Jack Nicklaus
Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal. -- Grace Kelly
No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair. -- Propertius
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. -- John Boyd Orr
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. -- Thomas Jefferson
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. -- Djuna Barnes
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power. -- James Lovelock
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
I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that. -- Tina Fey
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. -- Ida B. Wells
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
The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. -- Jack Nicklaus
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. -- Ray Comfort
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
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. -- Cheryl Hayashi
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. -- Salman Rushdie
Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected. -- Ron Fournier
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. -- George William Russell
This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing. -- Joe Lieberman
A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. -- Charles Spurgeon
A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores. -- Jeff Lindsay
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival. -- Helen Fisher
Life is art's rival and vice versa. -- Wyndham Lewis
IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors. -- Ambrose Bierce
Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival. -- Thiruvalluvar
The good is the greatest rival of the best. -- Nellie L. McClung
No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop -- Jose Marti
Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind. -- Salman Rushdie
Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival. -- Eddie Vedder
No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win. -- Mas Oyama
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ. -- Tertullian
And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight? -- Scott Westerfeld
There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace -- Bernard Hinault
We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies. -- Cardinal Richelieu
Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time. -- Toni Morrison
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival. -- Edwin Booth
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival! -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame. -- Thomas Seward
In arms and science tis the same Our rival's hurts create our fame. -- Matt Prior
Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11. -- Loretta Lynch
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival. -- Andre Malraux
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. -- Hesiod
The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely. -- Emilia Clarke
...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise -- David Fairchild
To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies. -- Cardinal Richelieu
No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair. -- Propertius
The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart. -- Morton Feldman
I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival. -- Man Ray
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. -- Joseph McCabe
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. -- Emile M. Cioran
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself. -- Henry A. Wallace
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. -- AndreÃ¯ Makine
It was hard for them to accuse their wives of infidelity when their rival was an invisible man. -- Diane Wakoski
A rival may raise your game in the short-term. An Ally will raise your game for the long-term. -- Morag Barrett
Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer. -- Hesiod
I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did. -- Susan Choi
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. -- William E. Gladstone
My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart. -- Michelle Moran
If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal. -- Peggy Guggenheim
Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car. -- Ross Perot
I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we? -- Philippa Gregory
To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival. Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado. -- Ka
Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival. -- Honore de Balzac
Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives. -- Richard Dawkins
Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy. -- Barbara Tuchman
What care though rival cities soar Along the stormy coast, Penn's town, New York, Baltimore, If Boston knew the most! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival. -- Michel de Montaigne
There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war. -- Alva Myrdal
But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. -- William Wordsworth
Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival. -- Honore de Balzac
I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke. -- Penn Jillette
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. -- Giles Foden
We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America. -- Howard Schultz
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
Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams. -- Rosemary Daniell
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Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job. -- Ron Fournier
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In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time. -- Emile M. Cioran
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival. -- William Ralph Inge
In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself! -- Erica Jong
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
Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival. -- Arthur Desmond
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
Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other. -- Ann Voskamp
It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time. -- Alyson Noel
One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, His confidence and compassion increase every day. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore. -- Fred Wilson
-He's his rival in love!*inuyasha hits shippo*why'd you do that!? shippo,if you bug inuyasha you'll only feel his fist.-Miroku+shippo -- Rumiko Takahashi
Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul. -- Orison Swett Marden
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No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival. -- Honore de Balzac
It's a brilliant song! C'mon"'Every day is like survival. You're my lover, not my rival.' What could be more meaningful than that? (Jesse) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit. -- Norm MacDonald
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
It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career. -- Ronaldinho
In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many. -- Edmund Burke
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
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 isn't. -- Mischa Barton
Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours! -- Barbara Corcoran
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
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage. -- Novalis
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

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