Enemy Quotes - Page 16

That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.

No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to be exploited--or even to remain idle and go hungry when it is not in the interest of the bosses to exploit them. We are therefore enemies of the State which is the coercive violent organization of society.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

Happiness is the enemy. It weakens you, puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

Pronouns are the enemy of improv.

However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surprised, take the enemy by surprise.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

There can be no true friends without true enemies

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

The IRS takes your money. Congress uses our money to arm our enemies. The IRS takes more of your money. Congress uses that money to fight the enemies Congress just armed.

Everyone is curious about the intentions of their enemies.

There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

If your enemy is superior, evade him

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit...

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.

I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.

But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.

The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.

If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.