Enemies-and-opposition Quote by Jon Ronson

“Alexander (at the trial of Philotas): How much happier to have fallen in the fighting, felled by a foe, rather than die by a…

— Andrew Chugg

“Do not try to change someone's fate. Their choices have led them there.”

— Tricia O'Malley

“We don’t choose our enemies, Robert thought. They choose us – and there is not a damn thing we can do about it.”

— Jennifer Valoppi

“No one doubts your courage, but you are a headstrong knight and when you choose a way you cannot change your course even if…

— John Steinbeck

“You always chose to be bound by who you are. Now choose to be freed by who you are.”

— Robin Hobb

“If we are to tempt fate, then let us not be cowards about it.”

— Christopher Paolini

“I would rather be exposed to all their torments than be obliged to think about them in order to protect myself from their attacks.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Since the day I was born, the world had told me I must accept whatever woth men assign me. And maybe, despite my nonstop…

— Xiran Jay Zhao

“To flee was more than I could find courage for; but I registered a vow of unsleeping circumspection.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I can see that my choices were never truly mine alone--and that is how it should be, that to assert otherwise is to chase…

— Barack Obama

“To think you cannot fight fate is only an act of surrender.”

— John Duigan

“As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time,…

— Christopher Hitchens