#rival

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

#commonplace #degrading #fail #having #humiliating

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#england #europe #france #india #indies

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#arrival #elevation #fact #itself #life

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#fresh #i #i can #land #lucky

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

#deep #emotional #emotional truth #fairy #fairy tales

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks. ↗

— John Hume

#background #banks #before #borrow #class

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#existence #extinction #holds #intellectual #much

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

#dissolution #every #hated #institution #most

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way. ↗

— Paul Allen

#apply #arrival #coming #hasten #horizon

For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters. ↗

— Nicole Appleton

#being #between #cause #ever #issue