Enemy Quotes · Page 118

“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.”

— Laurens van der Post

“Your enemy is most humbled when he finds out that the person that he looks up to … looks up to you.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

— Nelly Mazloum

Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

— Alex Berenson

One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.

— Sun Tzu

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

— Sun Tzu

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

— Robert Jordan

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

— Jose Mourinho

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His son, much more, being reconciled, we…

— Paul the Apostle

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world…

— Leos Carax

When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

— Brigham Young

We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We…

— Malala Yousafzai

Rock music had its own constituency, its own steering wheel. It was beyond the control of the establishment, and we saw TV…

— Ian Gillan

A strong man understands some battles cannot be won, but a wise man can see that some battles are actually not battles…

— Ash Sweeney

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there…

— Michael Moore

However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none…

— Sun Tzu

Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love…

— Samuel Logan Brengle

Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem…

— Georges Bernanos

Military and absolutist regimes are undoubtedly well fitted to get the jump on an unsuspecting or unprepared enemy; but the history of…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

What [Margaret Thatcher] made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with…

— Hilary Mantel

Often, during combat, the warrior of light receives blows that he was not expecting. And he realizes that, during a war, his…

— Paulo Coelho

Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon,…

— Annia Ciezadlo

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common…

— Samuel Adams

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!

— Dorothy Parker

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

— Gene Luen Yang

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

— Gene Fowler

When the ball is snapped I want to tackle the other guy, the other team is my enemy.

— Brian Urlacher

“A mafia could never kill an alliance. That’s how you become safe from the enemy, you befriend them.”

— Basma Salem

Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.

— Miyamoto Musashi

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

— Philippa Gregory

“The treachery of a friend is worse than the treachery of an enemy.”

— Kevin Crossley-Holland

United Airlines: Passengers are our worst enemy. We're not too fond of luggage either.

— David Letterman

A free press isn't the enemy of America; it's a big part of why makes America great.

— Jonathan Karl

That's politics. Your friend one day is your enemy the next and vice versa.

— Jon Tester

If you view everyone as your enemies, everyone around you will be your enemies.

— Jack Ma

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

— Sidney Sheldon

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

— John Christopher