Enemy Quotes - Page 124

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.

If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.

Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.

If you help manufacture an enemy that's really evil, you can point to the fact that it's really evil, and say, "Hey, it's really evil."

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but not often. It was too risky.

Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

As your enemies and your friends, so are you

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

How could you beat an enemy you couldn't see?

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

Money has a way of trumping even the gravest of enemies over time.

The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. --Doroga

I think that we're our own worst enemies in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to doing work where you're criticized a lot or doing work where there's a lot of hater directed at you; and to not constantly second-guess yourself.

lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

I think that cynicism is the enemy. Cynicism thinks it knows how things work. "Oh yeah, you know how that works." I think uncertainty is the thing you have to keep embracing. You have to keep saying, I actually don't know, and going out is going to tell me something every time.

To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly enemies. They draw very fine distinctions.