Rivalrous Vs Non Quotes & Sayings

Beauty, Olympia has come to understand, has incapacitated her mother and ruined her life, for it has made her dependent upon people who are desirous of seeing her and of serving her. — Anita Shreve

Evangelization is leading people to Jesus, not ourselves. — Paul George

Knowledge is after all a non-rivalrous good — Mark O'Connor

Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice ... — Margaret Mead

I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His ears have tripled in size. Everyone's started calling him Dumbo. Which wouldn't be so bad, except they've started calling me Mrs. Dumbo. You can't even tell he's got curly hair anymore. There's nothing left to run my fingers through. Just this weird blond AstroTurf sprouting out of his skull. — Sonya Sones

It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist. — Brooke Hauser

One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis. — Terence McKenna