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We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies. — Cardinal Richelieu

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we? — Philippa Gregory

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. — Emile M. Cioran

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke. — Penn Jillette

Come, shadow, come, and take this shadow up,
For 'tis thy rival. — William Shakespeare

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. — Isaac D'Israeli

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated. — Harold Holzer

In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself! — Erica Jong

No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win. — Mas Oyama

Paris Hilton isn't my rival. I met her one or two times and she's making out there's this big rivalry between us and there so isn't. — Mischa Barton

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job. — Ron Fournier

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. — John Boyd Orr

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. — Christopher Hampton

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

In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival.
Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado. — Ka

He is my most beloved friend and my bitterest rival, my confidant and my betrayer, my sustainer and my dependent, and scariest of all, my equal. — Gregg Levoy

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

Savannah is a ... lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets ... There are legendary scenes ... to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams. — Rosemary Daniell

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart. — Morton Feldman

Thus did Jeff Bezos become one of the original investors in Google, his company's future rival, — Brad Stone

Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor ... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car. — Ross Perot

When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation — John Piper

Most of the states of Europe had no prospect of social transformation, and thus little ability to rival or counter the Nazis and the Soviets. — Timothy Snyder

A rival may raise your game in the short-term. An Ally will raise your game for the long-term. — Morag Barrett

My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart. — Michelle Moran

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did. — Susan Choi

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself. — Henry A. Wallace

Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time. — Alyson Noel

Perhaps if he stumbled onto a bath and a tailor he could even be considered handsome. — Katherine McIntyre

Stephanie has walls around her that could rival Fort Knox. She's determined not to let me in, but I'm going to do my damnedest to get inside. — Nina D'Angelo

Death has no rival. — Marty Rubin

There was one thing unforgivable, like things in the schoolroom so bad that only Mommy could deal with, to set up a rival good to God's. — Evelyn Waugh

The good is the greatest rival of the best. — Nellie L. McClung

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him. — Jean Racine

America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom. — Orson Scott Card

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair. — Sextus Propertius

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time. — Emile M. Cioran

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace — Bernard Hinault

He was furious, and that was reflected in his passion to start what was, no matter how he spun it, a rival company. — Walter Isaacson

A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival. — Edwin Booth

In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives. — Richard Dawkins

Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours! — Barbara Corcoran

It was hard for them to accuse their wives of infidelity when their rival was an invisible man. — Diane Wakoski

Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11. — Loretta Lynch

In arms and science tis the same Our rival's hurts create our fame. — Matt Prior

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them. — Alice Hoffman

I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs. — Lech Walesa

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. — Joseph McCabe

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival. — Man Ray

It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone

Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer. — Hesiod

Mayor Resigns After Caught Tossing Dog Poop On Rival's Yard AP — Anonymous

Although my mind recognizes that Kate Brooks is now my rival, apparently my cock hasn't gotten the memo. — Emma Chase

Life is art's rival and vice versa. — Wyndham Lewis

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. — Hesiod

Maybe it's my ego. Maybe I crave someone who will never be my rival. — Sylvia Plath

I thought how wise he was to lure his rival out into the woods, where every fight's fair. — Peter Geye

( ... ) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. — Andrei Makine

Blinded by the limits of our own imagination, historically we have found it difficult to envisage another entity with capabilities that rival our own — Margi Prideaux

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me. — Jack Nicklaus

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence. — Harold Holzer

Read what you love and love what you read. — Rival Gates

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism' ... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition. — John Gresham Machen

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours. — Robin Hobb

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore. — Fred Wilson

I'm young enough not to be a rival to Mr. Basescu. — Victor Ponta

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fame is a jealous mistress
And will brook no rival. — Thiruvalluvar

If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal. — Peggy Guggenheim

Sounds like the rival is a good soldier, Cono said. Like the Russians say, a bad soldier is one who doesn't try to become a general. — Victor Robert Lee

Those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight. — Plato

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely. — Emilia Clarke

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival. — Andre Malraux

Just as Hitler had predicted, it was rival empires more than indigenous nationalists who propelled the process of decolonization forward. — Niall Ferguson

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden

It should go without saying that these rival belief systems [Judaism, Islam, Christianity] are all equally uncontaminated by evidence. — Sam Harris

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you. — Dennis E. Adonis

The fear created by commercial experts may not quite rival the fear created by terrorists like the Ku Klux Klan, but the principle is the same. — Steven D. Levitt

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war. — Alva Myrdal

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill. — Robert Anton Wilson

Concentrate ... for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul. — Orison Swett Marden

So he was her husband, Edward might eat her, and no one's hair could rival his. — Cynthia Hand

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival. — William Ralph Inge

Bear patiently with a rival. — Ovid

There's always a rival for anything better. — Toba Beta

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. — William Wordsworth

Few things rival the torment of the once-famous actor, the fallen politician or, as Tocqueville might have remarked, the unsuccessful American. — Alain De Botton

Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy. — Barbara Tuchman

A good rival is almost like a friend, isn't she? You make me try harder. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

True warfare in which large rival armies fight to the death is known only in man and in social insects. — Richard Dawkins

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power. — James Lovelock

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival! — Marcus Tullius Cicero

My love is unique. No one can rival her, for she is the most beautiful girl alive. Just by passing, she has stolen my heart. — Tyne O'Connell

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. — Djuna Barnes

Women are jealous of cigars ... they regard them as a strong rival. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Well is it said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour. — Geoffrey Chaucer