#rival

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#best #heart #imperfections #jealous #knows

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#ambition #aspired #graceful #indulgent #love

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#contrary #departure #doctrine #journey #metaphysical

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#control #effective #effective way #energy #fact

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#day #every #every day #fact #fragmented

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America. ↗

— Patti Davis

#had #i #odd #rivalry #sibling

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

— Benjamin Franklin

#himself #love #rivals #who #will

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#army #arrival #comrades #conjecture #could

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#baby #false #feminist #first #goes

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#because #i #lost #much #races