Enemy Quotes - Page 104

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.

Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

After Trump's election victory, I explained why there would be no friendship between Putin and Trump. The contradictions between the systems are too great. And Putin needs an enemy. He wants to be the leader of the anti-American, anti-European world. And given that he cannot be friends with their heads of state and government, he instead needs to generate scandals and resistance.

It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.

Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.

The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.

Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.

I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.

The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

Light and lust are deadly enemies.

Our enemies are our outward consciences.

Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.