But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
It’s a brilliant song! C’mon…’Every day is like survival. You’re my lover, not my rival.’ What could be more meaningful than that? (Jesse)
At 14 I was the fastest runner in Denmark. I was nearly a professional goalkeeper. I could have been the rival of Peter Schmeichel.
Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.
First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
Biggest rival is Kaillie Humphries of Canada, and we are actually training partners. She was at my wedding, and I consider her a close friend.
Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.
I can honestly say that every time I go on court, I see the opponent in a competitive way, but not a rival.
Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.
It's a great thing to be underestimated because it puts off your rival or enemy - they're not on their full game if they underestimate you.
I can say that Thiago Silva has no rival in his position. He is by far the best defender in the world. It’s a compliment for me to be compared to him.
Facebook's position with rival tech companies boils down to this: if you want access to all the information we've collected, strike a deal with us.
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.
My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart.
Shanghai is a beautiful city, with theatres, shopping malls and restaurants that can rival anything in London.
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.
Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
I feel pity for Mayawati that joined hands even with rival Akhilesh Yadav only in an attempt to stop Narendra Modi.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.
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.
I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team.
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them
What care though rival cities soar
Along the stormy coast,
Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,
If Boston knew the most!
Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.
When you see the rival make a certain pass, you don't need to look behind you. You know 100 per cent that all your teammates will go with you.
I ain't never going to apologize for a 21-point win over a state rival, ever.
For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.
I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.
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.
I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
I have too many to count. Put it this way, I rival my wife with the amount of shoes she has in Jordans.
I guess what I'm really saying is something obvious - that there's a unique pride in watching a home team from rival turf, especially when we're not supposed to be any good.
Paris Hilton isn't my rival. I met her one or two times and she's making out there's this big rivalry between us and there so isn't.
It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career.
I will not allow continued planned street violence between rival factions to take place on the streets of Portland.
Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams.
The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.
In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.
Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.
To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.
I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.
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