Adversaries Quotes · Page 5

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

— Esther Peterson

Hillary Clinton hates Julian Assange, she is just an adversary of internet freedom.

— Kim Dotcom

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary.

— Chester Crocker

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it…

— Seneca the Younger

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

— Ayn Rand

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

President Biden's decision to rejoin the failed Paris Climate Accord props up our adversaries at the expense of American workers.

— Bill Hagerty

And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our…

— David Frum

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to…

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

We're going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary - at work everywhere, its…

— Bill McKibben

I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I…

— Laurence Sterne

Ho Chi Minh sought to defeat both adversaries [French and American] primarily by using diplomatic and political means, combined with paramilitary activities.

— William J. Duiker

If we are faithful in keeping the commandments of God His promises will be fulfilled to the very letter. . . .…

— Heber J. Grant

I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within…

— Jack Nicholson

As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power…

— Richard Diebenkorn

A man who knows a thing, recognizes a given danger, and sees with his own eyes the possibility of a remedy, damned…

— George Lincoln Rockwell

“It is not a conclusive proof of a doctrine’s correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to…

— Ludwig von Mises

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well…

— Alexander Hamilton

Strong countries and strong presidents talk to their adversaries. That's what Kennedy did with Khrushchev. That's what Reagan did with Gorbachev. That's…

— Barack Obama

Up until now, I believed the nuclear threat to the U.S. from Iran was limited to the ability of terrorists to penetrate…

— Joseph Farah

If America chooses, we can develop our own energy resources and not be pressured into wars in the Middle East. Cheap energy…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

Your greatest adversary is also your greatest teacher. Like it or not, it is the job of certain people to bring out…

— Iyanla Vanzant

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

— Georges Bernanos

“Be creative. Use your wits. Save your true power and efforts for the adversaries that warrant them.”

— Joseph J. Bailey

What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is…

— Christopher Jones

Infrastructure, telecommunications, and military-related fields must be protected from our adversaries at all costs.

— George Santos

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

— Plutarch

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

— Phil Keoghan

Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

— William Shakespeare

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

— William Shakespeare

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

— Darrell Royal

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

— Richard M. Nixon

Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will…

— Richard J. Foster

“A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.”

— Paulo Coelho

concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of…

— Thucydides

I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with…

— Guillermo del Toro

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

— Peter Gay