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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

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


#clary-fray #jace-wayland #rivalry #simon-lewis #worry

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.


Criss Jami


#battle #bias #combat #discernment #disputes

Solidarity was admirable; loyalty was the person standing next to you when the devil came to call.


Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson


#loyalty #sisters-sibling-rivalry #historical-fiction

As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.


Soundarya


#as far as #concerned #far #had #i

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.


Peter Jackson


#help #rivalry

Differences between Catholic and Protestant countries did not incite rivalries between European states, or cause the growing sense of national identity and, sometimes, isolationism that was developing among the countries of Europe. These were happening anyway, for a complex variety of political and economic reasons. But religious differences did, at times, contribute to them—for example in Spain, where the inward-looking institutions of the Counter-Reformation seemed aimed at creating a nation of soldiers and ecclesiastics in great contrast to the outgoing, trade-based, profit-minded society of the Calvinist Netherlands. These generalizations hide many local variations—there were busy Spanish merchants, and contemplative, spiritual, people in many Protestant lands. But travelers across Europe remarked on the increasingly striking differences between nations.


Fiona MacDonald


#business

He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.


Edith Pargeter


#family #rivalry #family

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


#rivalry #life

Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.


Novak Djokovic


#closer #coming #everybody #everything #feel






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