Enemy Quotes
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Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
Norman Maclean -
Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon, or where it had essentially become an extension of the government, like in Iraq, people tend to see a journalist as an agent of his or her government. That can be dangerous if the United States military is occupying their country, or aligned with their enemies.
Annia Ciezadlo
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Our enemies are our outward consciences.
William Shakespeare -
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt -
The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.
Thomas Hobbes -
I believe the enemy has numerous tactics to keep us from praying because he knows that it is the greatest way for the kingdom of God to expand.
K. P. Yohannan -
Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world
Erik Larson
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Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.
Martin Luther -
For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted by the like danger.... so those who are besieged and assaulted by their spiritual enemies will ever after more carefully arm themselves against them with the graces of God's Spirit, that they may not be overcome nor foiled by them.
George Downame -
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
William Butler Yeats -
Any American who joins al Qaeda will know full well that they have joined an organization that is at war with the United States. Any American who did that should know well that they in fact are part of an enemy... and that the U.S. will do anything that is possible to destroy that enemy to save American lives.
John O. Brennan -
The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.
Eric Maisel -
The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo.
Erwin Rommel
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Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.
Bill Press -
One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.
Alexander Suvorov -
As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything else except what you're making.
Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene -
Fear is the enemy of curiosity.
Warren Berger -
I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.
Herb Ritts -
I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country.
Steve Truglia
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“Our invisible enemy plants a sinful thought in the soul of a person, and then records it as if it were the person’s own thought, so that later he can accuse the person at the terrible judgement of God.”
Ambrose of Optina -
A prince is also respected when he is a true friend and a true enemy; that is, when he declares himself on the side of one prince against another without any reservation.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
William Shakespeare -
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Thomas Carlyle