De Rivals Quotes & Sayings

My body is not a tomb for other creatures. — Leonardo Da Vinci

If you allow failure to take on more of a role in your life than possible, then you'll always look at it on the defense and you'll always shoot yourself down before it even goes anywhere. — Pharrell Williams

Don't confuse having a career with having a life. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival. — Honore De Balzac

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival. — Michel De Montaigne

I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy! — Tom Jones

Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest. — Laurent Angliviel De La Beaumelle

Man is gifted with reason; he is life being aware of itself he has awareness of himself, of his fellow man, of his past, and of the possibilities of his future. This awareness of himself as a separate entity, the awareness of his own short life span, of the fact that without his will he is born and against his will he dies, that he will die before those whom he loves, or they before him, the awareness of his aloneness and separateness, of his helplessness before the forces of nature and of society, all this makes his separate, disunited existence an unbearable prison. He would become insane could he not liberate himself from this prison and reach out, unite himself in some form or other with men, with the world outside. — Erich Fromm

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival. — Honore De Balzac

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. — Tom Robbins

How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station? — Gus Grissom

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 is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature ... This conquering of the inner man, understanding the secrets of the subtle workings that are within the human mind, and knowing its wonderful secrets, belong entirely to religion. — Swami Vivekananda

Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil. — Antoine Destutt De Tracy

It was safe to assume he'd not only read the play but then re-read it, cross-referenced the annotations, and probably joined an online chat group called Buds of the Bard or something equally nerdy — Simon Holt

Struggle is what it means to be alive and free. — David Budbill

Sometimes I remind myself of all the things that make me feel so blessed. And then I remind myself to remind myself more often. — Lights

If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing. — Hayden Schlossberg

Giving and helping from the heart becomes like a magnet, amplifying the energy to all those involved in the exchange. — Heidi DuPree

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one. — Pierre Choderlos De Laclos