#rivals

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#fight #groups #images #make #natural

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#departures #find #lay #life #more

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#encounter #himself #least #love #many

Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo. ↗

— Paul Oakenfold

#done #even #futuristic #got #hong

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#love #rivals #love

I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#anything #appointments #arrivals #checks #chris

I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know? ↗

— Marc Webb

#i #just #kind #know #like

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#abraham lincoln #admiration #audacious #better #both

Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other. ↗

— Liu Xiang

#athletes #competing #course #each #encourage

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#contributing #feeling #felt #get #good