Adversary Quotes
145 quotes by 128 authors
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The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
— Albert Camus
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In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
— Eric Cantona
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I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary.
— Chester Crocker
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing…
— Lionel Trilling
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The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and…
— Sun Tzu
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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him…
— Sun Tzu
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The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the relative size of…
— Sun Tzu
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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent…
— J. William Fulbright
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No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why…
— Bobby Jones
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In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally…
— Charles Brown MacDonald
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In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being…
— Adolf Hitler
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When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your…
— Eustace Budgell
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be…
— Patrick Henry
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Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail;…
— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to…
— Frederick The Great
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In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in…
— Glenn Cunningham
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