#rival

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#better #fight #i #myself #other

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#beaten #eye #face #i #kicked

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#away #because #by the time #close #college

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#glory #gray #gray hair #hair #love

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. ↗

— Jane Bryant Quinn

#away #between #day #lies #minute

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him. ↗

— Jean Racine

#him #i #only #rival #strangle

I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals. ↗

— Dayron Robles

#best #get #i #london #looking

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#alliance #avert #chamberlain #desires #england

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going. ↗

— Mark Caine

#going #his #knows #over #rivals

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#armed #bands #burning #central #children