Saul Bellow Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
-
Let my enemies devour each other.
-
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
-
President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
-
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
-
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
-
To the confusion of our enemies.
-
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
-
I have lots of friends, but I'm probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn't be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies.
-
Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?
-
Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.
-
When I stepped out from doing films and had a dark period, I never did anything dark on a set, so I never made enemies on a set. I never was a bad girl on a set; I always considered films a really sacred space, so when I had my problems, I had them very much away from the film community.
-
Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!
-
Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.
-
I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.
-
We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.
-
Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in.
-
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
-
Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape
-
This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.
-
After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.
-
Let the enemies of life step down.
