Enemy Quotes - Page 72

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

The time has come when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy, not permitting the greater portion of our armed forces and our valuable material to be immobilized within the continental United States.

People loving people. That's the enemy of everything that's evil

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day.

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.

Glance is the enemy of vision.

Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Good is often the enemy of best.

Beware of the man who has no enemies.

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.

He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.

In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.