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