Rivalling Quotes & Sayings

The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief. — John Hanning Speke

To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses. — Dan Hill

Following its recognition as a state in 1832, Greece spent most of the remainder of the 19th century under the control of creditors. The pattern started with a default in 1832. In consequence, Greece's finances were put under French administration. — Steve Hanke

You can change your life if you really want to. You can improve it, make it better. And it all starts with changing the way you think. — John C. Maxwell

I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised. — Sylvia Kristel

He welcomed challenges; they kept him sharp, showed that he was approachable, and oftentimes made him explore avenues previously unthought-of. — Christie Golden

Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite. — Craig Brown

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves. — Marya Mannes

Protect your dreams from your nightmare — Munia Khan

Solutions: ( ... ) Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent. — Warren Farrell

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing. — Carrie Fisher

Never, never tell jokes about a man with easy access to weapons of mass destruction. — Peter Chernin

The writer, indeed every real artist, was the devil, rivalling God in creativity, trying even to surpass him. God was surely man's most fatal creation, the devil's kitsch bitch. It was God, with his insistence on being worshipped and admired, who made the argument of art necessary, keeping the fire of dissent alive in men and women. This dissident was the artist, who spanned with his imagination reason and unreason, the under and the over, the dream and the world, men and women. — Hanif Kureishi

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams? — Wallace Stevens

I simply was not able to risk wrecking her world, and I could see no possible way I could move the whole kingdom. So I left her with the only thing I could - the certainty of a little more time. — Mary Oliver

This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.' — Dave Ramsey