Enemy Quotes

• I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

  

  Arthur Wellesley
  • God
  • Men
  • Enemy

• To us, anyone who opposes dictatorship is our friend. Those who support it, our enemy.

  

  Li Lu
  • Support
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to look upon negativism as prudence and inferiorities as humility. Strip off those false cloaks and see these attitudes in their nakedness - as enemies of you and of your possibilities.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Friends
  • Attitude
  • Humility

• Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.

  

  Bill Shuster
  • Military
  • Enemy

• There comes a time to everyone when the world narrows for him to a strait alley, with Death at the end of it, and all his thoughts are fixed on that waiting enemy of mankind.

  

  John Buchan
  • Time
  • World
  • Death

• O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Brain
  • Scene

• A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a really unconscious day and I'm going to let it all out. Or, today's going to be analytical. And some days all mixed up.

  

  K. M. Soehnlein
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Today

• The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Liberty
  • Force
  • Destroy

• The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

  

  Max Eastman
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Enemy

• It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Men
  • Important
  • Children

• I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.

  

  William Shirley
  • Kind
  • Opinion
  • Trade

• 'I'll put a word in for you, Sharpe, because a man shouldn't be disciplined for killing the enemy, but I don't suppose my help will do you any good.'

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Good
  • Help
  • Enemy

• The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

  

  Leos Carax
  • World
  • Believe
  • Enemy

• When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

  

  Doug Liman
  • War
  • Movie
  • Fighting

• The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • History
  • Illness
  • VIsitations

• What Margaret Thatcher made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Community
  • Greedy
  • Collectives

• Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Enemy
  • Arrows

• There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.

  

  William Powell
  • Purpose
  • Chance
  • Combat

• Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work. Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons. Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.

  

  Watchman Nee
  • Christian
  • Firsts
  • Overcoming

• No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Friend
  • Teacher
  • Enemy

• You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.

  

  George Eliot
  • She
  • Hope
  • Forever

• I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

  

  Ken Buck
  • Believe
  • Enemy

• I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • War
  • Peace
  • Desire

• I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

  

  Billy Sunday
  • Enemy

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