Enemy Quotes
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...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)
— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do…
— William Nicholson
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I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm…
— Kristin Cashore
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Oh yes. Blood is everything. But the only blood I'm interested in flows from my enemies. Look around you! These cats are bathed in blood.…
— Erin Hunter
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Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)
— Vince Flynn
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My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When…
— Terry Pratchett
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Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it…
— C.S. Lewis
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Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are…
— Wallace Stegner
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People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.
— Jodi Picoult
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If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.
— Paulo Coelho
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there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.
— Mario Puzo
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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end,…
— Karl Kraus
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That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at…
— Margaret Atwood
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The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
— Sylvia Plath
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When you're in the arena...you just remember who the enemy is" - Haymitch
— Suzanne Collins
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But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy.
— Melina Marchetta
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