Rivalry Quotes

“Suddenly reminded, she clapped a hand over her mouth. "Oh- Simon!"
"No, I'm Jace," he said patiently. "Simon is the weaselly little one with the bad haircut and dismal fashion sense.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Suddenly reminded, she clapped a hand over her mouth. "Oh—Simon!"
"No, I'm Jace," said Jace patiently. "Simon is the weaselly little one with the bad haircut and dismal fashion sense."
"Oh, shut up," she replied, but it was more automatic than heartfelt. "I meant to call before I went to sleep. See if he got home okay."
Shaking his head, Jace regarded the heavens as if they were about to open up and reveal the secrets of the universe. "With everything that's going on, you're worried about Weasel Face?"
"Don't call him that. He doesn't look like a weasel."
"You may be right," said Jace. "I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“You don't need to worry, though. He's not my type."
"I don't think I've ever heard a girl say that before," said Simon. "I thought Jace was the kind of guy who was everyone's type.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.”
― Melody Carlson, The Jerk Magnet

“I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But two must always struggle for mastery. Two must always watch each other. The eyes of all the world will be on two, uncertain which of them to follow.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Odd as this might sound, I suppose I’m glad you’re here, Jacob.
[Edward Cullen]”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“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.”
― William Golding, The Spire

“The Master: The cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.”
― Terrance Dicks, Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

“In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Your wit never ceases to underwhelm me.”
― A.E. Kirk, Midnight Poison

“He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.”
― Takayuki Yamaguchi, シグルイ 15

“Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“Jerusalem was capital of southern Israel, known then as Judah. Isn't it true that there's always a rivalry between north and south? North and South Korea, North and South Vietnam, Northern and Southern Ireland, Yankees and Rebels, uptown and downtown. Somebody please tell me why that is? Maybe southerners get too much sun, like Mr. Sock over there, frying his threads, and northerners don't get enough (although I hardly think northern Israel a cool spot in the shade), but southern peoples--tropical and downtown types--always seem to lean toward decadence, whereas uptown, in the north, progress is favored. Decadence and progress obviously are at odds.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

“On the page was exactly what I had written, but it was clearer, more immediate. The erasures, the transpositions, the small additions, and, in some way, her handwriting itself gave me the impression that I had escaped from myself and now was running a hundred paces ahead with an energy and also a harmony that the person left behind didn't know she had.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“Her face may have been the most beautiful female face I have ever seen. Yet, it was a beauty that was intimidating and overwhelming. It was an exquisiteness that made you want to turn and run, instead of approach.”
― Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney, Asha in Time

“Every great phenomenon is followed by degeneration, particularly in the realm of art. The model of the great man stimulates vainer natures to imitate him outwardly or to surpass him; in addition, all great talents have the fateful quality of stifling many weaker forces and needs, and seem to devastate the nature around them. The most fortunate instance in the development of art is when several geniuses reciprocally keep each other in check; in this kind of a struggle, weaker and gentle natures are generally also allowed air and light.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“The successful are not tolerated.”
― Aeschylus, The Ancient Greek Drama Collection: The Plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

“Sam studied his brother. At one time he thought Frankie had a good head on his shoulders. Sure, he had a temper. And he was conceited. But he always used common sense. But now he wasn’t so sure if that were true. He had brought him his lifeless fiancé. Like a dog dragging in a dead rabbit looking for praise.”
― holly hood

“He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.”
― Edith Pargeter, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury

“He who is not enviable is not admirable.”
― Aeschylus, Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus: Ad Fidem Manuscriptorum (1812)

“Rivalry, like love, required some measure of possession.”
― Isabel Agajanian, Modern Divination

“The biggest danger facing the world is that the United States will at some point adopt an aggressive stance that treats China as the enemy and seeks to isolate it.”
― Martin Jacques, When China Rules the World (2009)

“Let's keep the rivalry. But not hate each other.”
― Avijeet Das

“One, two, three...was I on my tiptoes when I circled this space?

Four, five, six...did counter clockwork make any difference for a prayer?

Seven, eight, nine...ten?

Was it ten turns that got me dizzy?

What could interest me more than counting twirls in the darkness?

I sat down to listen.

Some pieces made the window shards duller.

Gossip was the best price that could be paid.”
― Sara Ellie MacKenzie, Casting Shadows

“I had to take a leaf out of her book. Smile to her face, but hold a knife to her back.”
― Philip Anthony Smith, The Woman He Left Behind

“I hope you choke on your devilled eggs you--”
― Ardin Patterson, Feral

“Let not the daily and unending horrors of this world blind you to the loving human that you ought to be.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire

“Unhealthy competition makes people who should work together, conspire against one another.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“Your hatred is my pride, and your envy my appreciation. If you hunt me, I thank you for making me the center of your life.”
― Aaron K. Archer, The Malignancy Protocol: A Near-Future Techno-Thriller