(147 quotes found)
“A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.”
Charles Boyer
“[But longtime friend and competitor Robert Johnson, who founded BET, says,] To me, his achievements would rival those of any business person in America, ... He had charisma, tenacity and passion to convince people that there was such a thing as a black consumer market.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Of all the plagues a lover bears,Sure rivals are the worst!”
William Walsh
“Nay more, though all my rival rhymesters frown, / I too can hunt a poetaster down.”
Lord Byron
“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
“Bear patiently with a rival.”
Ovid
“The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author”
Benjamin Disraeli
“IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I think we really had something personal with Stanford. They are our rivals and they had our number and beat us three years straight.”
Ayinde Ubaka
“(This game) has become our rival. It was physical. You have two teams that are fast, the tempo is higher and the kids are going to come a little harder. It's bound to get physical and then add our history with Appleton.”
Brian Holt
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