Enemy Quotes
4792 quotes by 2505 authors
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And it seemed to me that there were fires Flying till dawn without number And I never found out things-those Strange eyes of his-what colour?…
— Anna Akhmatova
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Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)
— Voltaire
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I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable…
— Janet Fitch
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The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They…
— Douglas MacArthur
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He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.
— Leo Tolstoy
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All men are enemies. All animals are comrades
— George Orwell
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I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness. Self-rejection is…
— Henri Nouwen
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He said that hate makes the world go round People are afraid of what they really want They make enemies of all the things that…
— Henry Rollins
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It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he…
— Terry Pratchett
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to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to…
— Ayn Rand
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That's more than three questions, Max. And sometimes wheter someone is your friend or enemy is all in how you look at it. But if…
— James Patterson
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
— Edward Abbey
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Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
— George R. R. Martin
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Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical…
— Daniel Dennett
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I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
— Max Brooks
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If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for…
— C.S. Lewis
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We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did. Through the face guard of his…
— Rick Riordan
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However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their…
— Yukio Mishima
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Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same…
— Dalai Lama
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