Antagonist Quote by Edmund Burke

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

— Edmund Burke

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too.…

— Edmund Burke

“Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we…

— Edmund Burke

“Alice started to understand why people found her repulsive. In stories, anyone who didn't look quite right, who wasn't a perfect human being, was…

— Georgia Byng

“I mean, without the antagonist, there would be no story! It’d be like: ‘Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to…

— Shannon Hale

If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.

— William Atherton

Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We…

— Harrison Ford

I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care…

— Paul Haggis

Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in…

— Anonymous

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

— William Ellery Channing

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan