Adversary Quotes

145 Adversary quotes by 124 unique authors

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the… — Howard Staunton
For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King. — Howard Staunton
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator. — Jonathan Franzen
The Adversary seldom loses when you play on his playing field. It's called the home court advantage. — Randall Wright
The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary. — Winston Churchill
The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found… — Ayn Rand
If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of… — James K. Polk
Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied. — Richard J. Foster
To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to… — Criss Jami
I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do… — Monte Irvin
John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice… — Elie Abel
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
As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its… — Richard Diebenkorn
When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary… — Napoleon Bonaparte
War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who… — Napoleon Bonaparte
So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of… — Erasmus Darwin
He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater… — Brigham Young
We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius… — Gerald R. Ford
It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary. — Georges St-Pierre
I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state… — Hugo Black
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love… — Michel Foucault
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. — William Godwin
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda. — Paul Davies

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