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Rivals Quotes - Page 5

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.

"Alfie Allen and Emilia Clarke interview: Game Of Thrones, TV fantasy, HBO and more". Interview with Ryan Lambie, www.denofgeek.com. March 31, 2011.

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.105, Arcade Publishing

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.15

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2012). “Purple Hibiscus: A Novel”, p.220, Algonquin Books

The good is the greatest rival of the best.

Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.31, University of Toronto Press

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

"Athenaeum Fragments". Book by Friedrich Schlegel (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.240

The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

"Dreams of My Russian Summers". Book by Andreï Makine, September 6, 1995.

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”