Enemy Quotes
4792 quotes by 2645 authors
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A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
— Early Wynn
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The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without strife.…
— Laozi
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The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or…
— Michael Chertoff
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Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.
— Dalai Lama
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There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.…
— Walt Kelly
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Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.
— Sun Tzu
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I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.
— Duke of Wellington
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As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles…
— Duke of Wellington
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You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil…
— Horatio Nelson
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
— P.D. James
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One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.
— Sun Tzu
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To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than…
— Sun Tzu
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This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road…
— Sun Tzu
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What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.
— Horatio Nelson
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Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of infinite knowledge. Science…
— Heinz Pagels
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It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.
— John Taft
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Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise an…
— Mark W. Clark
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Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those…
— Bruno Jasienski
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In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on…
— Norman Podhoretz
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