The Enemy Quotes

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.

We're our own worst enemies a lot of the time, but I still blame men.

Until as women we all say, No! We are not going to starve ourselves, nothing is going to change. We're our own worse enemies sometimes but I still blame men.

Perfection is the often the enemy of greatness.

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 chair. Despair was the enemy." -white oleander

I could be your worst enemy. But i would rather have friends then enemies, and i go to great length to make that the case. There’s much more reward in having friends.

Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.

You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.

To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly enemies. They draw very fine distinctions.

lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

Money has a way of trumping even the gravest of enemies over time.

How could you beat an enemy you couldn't see?

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.

As your enemies and your friends, so are you

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.

I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but not often. It was too risky.

If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us.

If you help manufacture an enemy that's really evil, you can point to the fact that it's really evil, and say, "Hey, it's really evil."

Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.

If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

We are Americans first, Americans last, Americans always... Let us argue our differences. But remember we are not enemies, but comrades in a war against a real enemy...

How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?

As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.

The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.

An enemy of yours is an enemy of mine; an enemy of mine is an enemy of yours; if an enemy of mine is not an enemy of yours, then you're an enemy of mine.

The enemy can steal your song.

The enemy will hit you in your area of strength to discourage himself.

Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

A free press isn't the enemy of America; it's a big part of why makes America great.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.