Enemy Quotes
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You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
Daniel Craig
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.
Xenophon
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E. B. White
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Stay well away from the enemies of Allâh during their festivals.
Umar
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A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
Early Wynn
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The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.
Brian Tracy
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Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend.
Confucius
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
H. R. McMaster
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
Major Owens
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
Gavin Newsom
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Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.
John Byng
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I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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There must be no concessions to the enemy. When a man is allowed to speak because he is rich and powerful, it aggravates the crime of denying the right to the poor and humble.
Frederick Douglass
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Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
Baltasar Gracian
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Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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In fifty words: Granted mobility, security (in the form of denying targets to the enemy), time, and doctrine (the idea to convert every subject to friendliness), victory will rest with the insurgents, for the algebraical factors are in the end decisive, and against them perfections of means and spirit struggle quite in vain.
T. E. Lawrence
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Government is the enemy until you need a friend.
William S. Cohen
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Too much research can be the writer's enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or prowling the streets with a Dictaphone, and it's easy to convince yourself that you're working hard. Often, it can be an excuse not to work; a classic displacement activity.
Mark Billingham
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Institutionalized racism is an imaginary enemy.
Bret Stephens
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Against what should fire be opened? Against the obstacles which may delay the march of infantry. The first obstacle is the enemy gun. It will be the first objective assigned to artillery masses.
Ferdinand Foch
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People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
Manfred von Richthofen