#vicious

The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him. ↗

— Pancho Gonzales

#because #champions #competitor #competitors #dislike

What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#ever #injustice #just #madly #nation

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. ↗

— Ann Landers

#battle #brings #constructive #couples #cruel

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#fury #itself #like #mind #punishment

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career. ↗

— Howard Stern

#career #fire #got #little #narcissistic

Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things. ↗

— Howard Stern

#angry #back #because #feel #fired

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#because #before #called #couple #did

Be virtuous and you will be vicious. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#virtuous #will #you

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#burn #damaging #go #head #injustice

George was full of hatred. Of his own weakness and stupidity, of his magic, of the stubbornness and the pride of Beatrice and Marit, and, last of all, hatred of Dr. Gharn, who had started it all. But the hatred swayed to pity. Then to hopelessness. Then back to anger. Every once in a great while, he felt a moment of peace, usually when he caught a glimpse of Beatrice and Marit together. He loved them both in different ways. But that could not be. He turned away, and the cycle began again. ↗

— Mette Ivie Harrison

#conflicting-emotions #despair #emotional-upheaval #hate #love