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Rivalry doesn't help anybody. -- Peter Jackson
Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests. -- Louisa May Alcott
Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader. -- Elbert Hubbard
Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins. -- Josh Billings
Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past. -- Peter Thiel
There was no excuse for Dallas Cowboys to lose to Washington. Rivalry or not, Redskins are a bad team. -- Jemele Hill
Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions. -- Serena Williams
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other. -- Luciano Pavarotti
We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement. -- Pope Francis
I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic. -- Ranulph Fiennes
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on. -- Eric Cantona
I had this odd sibling rivalry with America. -- Patti Davis
Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them. -- James Parton
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. -- Harry S. Truman
Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy. -- Honore de Balzac
My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us. -- Erma Bombeck
I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary. -- Chester Crocker
It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes. -- Joseph Addison
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. -- Joseph Addison
If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best. -- John Dryden
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation. -- Charles Horton Cooley
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. -- Henry Adams
It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority. -- George Eliot
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds. -- Henri Nouwen
Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others. -- Elizabeth Fishel
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them. -- Peter De Vries
A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence. -- Jean Vanier
Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing. -- Gretchen Wilson
It's a shame anyone had to lose that. What a great rivalry. -- Mike Tice
Look around. There are no enemies here. There's just good, old-fashioned rivalry. -- Bob Wells
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. -- Harry S. Truman
We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best. -- Michelle Wie
Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention. -- Janine di Giovanni
I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else. -- Cyndi Lauper
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. -- Brooks Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. -- Henry Adams
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation. -- Charles Horton Cooley
There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day. -- Mackenzie Astin
In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively. -- Ismail Haniyeh
Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry. -- Earl Campbell
The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents. -- Hailee Steinfeld
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it. -- Paul Theroux
Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds. -- Michael Johnson
I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together. -- Harlan Coben
To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match. -- Martin Rees
The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype. -- Bill Simmons
I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses. -- Jimmy Connors
Could rivalry be a productive system? -- Sara Genn
What rivalry? I win all the matches. -- Martina Hingis
Insecurity is at the heart of every rivalry. -- Beth Moore
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There is no overt rivalry among our children. -- Martin Milner
What causes sibling rivalry?" "Having more than one kid. -- Tim Allen
There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising. -- Maurice Saatchi
Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports. -- Carl Yastrzemski
There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry. -- Edward VII
There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham. -- David Pleat
Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry. -- John George Nicolay
Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it. -- Obafemi Awolowo
As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry. -- Soundarya
Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit. -- Anthony Zinni
With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry! -- Andy Roddick
I got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug. -- Carrie Fisher
I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault. -- Rob Corddry
Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry. -- Samuel Johnson
I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry. -- Zelo
It was a rivalry-revenge game for us. They beat us very badly on our field last year. -- Todd Martin
The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties. -- George Eliot
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry. -- Jorge Luis Borges
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues. -- James Dyson
There is a very specific, unique brand of rivalry that exists between twins. You're always wondering who the Alpha twin is. -- Alex Hirsch
People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R. -- Hideo Kojima
For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters. -- Nicole Appleton
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. -- James Mark Baldwin
A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks. -- Sharon Stone
every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings. -- Linda Sunshine
A primary campaign can get very intense and times nasty. But it`s never going to be quite as vicious as between-parties rivalry. -- Ruth Marcus
The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of. -- William Perry
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
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality. -- Indira Gandhi
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. -- Khalil Gibran
No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry. -- Louis Kronenberger
It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us. -- Bobby Thomson
Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior. -- Plutarch
Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies to rivalry, jealousy, and acquisitiveness reinforce. -- William James
I have been compared to Mao since we were both junior skaters. We've felt the rivalry since then, so we wanted to avoid each other. However, she has been my motivation. -- Kim Yuna
Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry? -- Woodrow Wilson
Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him. -- Novak Djokovic
The world's politics are in turmoil, not to mention the Mideast, where the US has mounted attacks from Libya to Iraq to Syria, and ISIS is attacking governments in today's pipeline rivalry. -- Michael Hudson
I'm at the top of my game so, when I win or lose, I don't freak out...I don't think we can call it a rivalry yet. There's just to many great players around. -- Roger Federer
They were like fire and water, two opposing forces forever lost in an epic rivalry. Quite frankly, it would have been easier attempting to break a deal with wild horses than these two boys. -- Louise Gann
The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations. -- Kathe Kollwitz

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