15 Quotes Tagged: rivalry

Rest you, my enemy,
Slain without fault,
Life smacks but tastelessly
Lacking your salt!
Stuck in a bog whence naught
May catapult me,
Come from the grave, long-sought,
Come and insult me!

When two persons are too close, they fall apart.

He who is not enviable is not admirable.

The successful are not tolerated.

Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in.

People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.

Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.

The people who start to elect a man to get what he can for his district will probably find they have elected a man who will get what he can for himself.

There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.

It is best to keep one’s own state intact; to crush the enemy’s state is only second best.

Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affairs, so the Scholars, for their part, would have been unable to see the rich seething stew of alliances and enmities and feuds and treaties which was a child’s life in Oxford. Children playing together: how pleasant to see! What could be more innocent and charming?

When the boy was grown and out hunting, the goddess brought Callisto before him, intending to have him shoot his mother, in ignorance, of course. But Zeus snatched the bear away and placed her among the stars, where she is called the Great Bear. Later, her son Arcas was placed beside her and called the Lesser Bear. Hera, enraged at this honor to her rival, persuaded the God of the Sea to forbid the Bears to descend into the ocean like the other stars. They alone of the constellations never set below the horizon.

Adopt as your ambition the creation of a world in which those who work against you see the light and wake up and succeed, so that the better at which you are aiming can encompass them, too.

I'm not into those kind of rivalries. I remember standing out in front of Stratford, minding my own business. Carload of about eighty kids would pull up: 'STRATFORD SUCKS!' Am I supposed to run after these guys? I'd just stand there, you know. They'd back up. 'STRATFORD SUCKS! ...STRATFORD SUCKS!' I'd say, 'I know. I go there. You're wasting gas, man.

Mine Enemy is growing old — I have at last Revenge — The Palate of the Hate departs — If any would avenge

Let him be quick — the Viand flits — It is a faded Meat — Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat