Brandon Mull Quotes

A common enemy is not necessarily a reliable basis for friendship.

Brandon Mull

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• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Eye
  • Friendship
  • Texas

• On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
  • Political
  • Reality

• Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Long
  • Money
  • Brain

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Experience
  • Change
  • Enemy

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Future
  • Friendship
  • Option

• History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Friends
  • History
  • Forever

• Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Best
  • Enemy
  • Wait

• In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Different
  • Important

• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Friendship
  • Depend
  • Depth

• Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Small
  • Friendship

• If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. If a friendship makes me love Hugh more, then I can trust that friendship. If it thrusts itself between us, then it should be cut out, and quickly.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Trust
  • Friendship

• The writer must take the right to explore, warts and all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges towards justice just ahead of Yeats's beast slouching to be born.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Enemy

• Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Effort

• On her fallout with Abhishek Bachchan The truth is if someone chooses not to invite you to their wedding you realize where you stand with that person. You may be deluded and think you are friends but maybe that friendship was only extended as co-stars on the sets. It doesn't matter. It became very clear to me that we were only co-stars not friends.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • May
  • Truth
  • Friends

• Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Quality
  • Enemy

• The captain called me to his bed and fumbled for my hand 'Take these silver bars,' he said, 'I'm giving you command.' Command of what? There's no on here. There's only you and me. The rest are dead or in retreat or with the enemy. 'Complain, complain, that's all you've done ever since we lost, If it's not the crucifixion then it's the holocaust.'

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Done
  • Giving
  • Lost

• Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Friendship

• "Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.” He was talking about friendship, but the way he looked at her… She would crackle like fire if he touched her.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Friendship
  • Talking
  • Looking For

• The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.

  

  Douglas Engelbart
  • World

• Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

  

  Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
  • Wind
  • Shadow
  • Cat

• A common enemy is not necessarily a reliable basis for friendship.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Enemy
  • Friendship