Adversaries Quotes · Page 2

“We can defeat our adversaries without having to hate them.”

— Arne Klingenberg

Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.

— Mason Cooley

You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.

— Nelson Mandela

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

— Oscar Wilde

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

— Milan Kundera

Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.

— Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

— Lucan

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

— Tennessee Williams

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

— George Santos

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

— Christopher Jones

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

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

— Chester Crocker

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth…

— Ellen G. White

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your…

— Saint Peter

When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a…

— Madeleine Albright

America can be a partner with China. We don't have to be an adversary in any way, shape or form. We can…

— Mitt Romney

The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive…

— Benjamin Franklin

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose…

— Phyllis McGinley

Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting…

— Ludwig von Mises

Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will…

— Hillary Clinton

“He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do,…

— John Lanchester

“If the people of this religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry…

— Anonymous

“But sailors were much better adversaries than the average aristocrat. They flipped cards with feral tricks, swore when they lost, swore when…

— Marie Rutkoski

We’d spent years as adversaries, two predators sharing territory and a certain, unwelcome attraction. Somehow, during all those years I spent outwardly…

— Patricia Briggs

An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

From Lehi's vision we learn that we must take hold of this safety railing-this iron rod, found alongside our individual straight and…

— Ann M. Dibb

I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless…

— Adolf Anderssen

Just as our adversaries evolve, so, too, must the FBI.

— Christopher A. Wray

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

— Winston Churchill

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

— Jonathan Franzen

God has not given us the spirit of fear. That comes from the adversary.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Write down three things you like about your adversaries.”

— Bryan Cohen

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

— Gloria Steinem

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

— Edmund Burke

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

— Ayn Rand