Rivalship Quotes & Sayings

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them. — William Hazlitt

If it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it. — Charles Bukowski

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. — John Ruskin

Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness of the heart. — John Of Kronstadt

Writing is a simple but elusive art," he said. "To write is to describe. Describe accurately and respectfully. And perhaps passionately. — Josh Farrar

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists. — Kathy Acker

Truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon facts. — Neville Goddard

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously. — Dan Auerbach

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want people to understand that there is a group of Christians out there who want to be more open and understanding and tolerant and loving of all kinds of people, even the people that don't believe in God at all. — Kristin Chenoweth

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing. — Helen Keller

Time vanquishes even the strongest of strongholds. — Patrick Hall

This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their constitutional limits by a certain rivalship, which will ever subsist between them. — Alexander Hamilton

Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it — Charlotte Symonds

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club. — John W. Campbell Jr.