Enemy Quotes
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He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the life of a sentinel--of a sentinel never relieved, whose business it is to look out for and expect an enemy, which is an evil not very far short of perishing by him.
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To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.
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Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.
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A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.
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Who’s a friend, who’s an enemy? ‘Cause sometimes they look the same to me. But looks can be pleasing, yet so deceiving. Sweet words from a serpent’s tongue. It’s like playing with a loaded gun!
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You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.
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Our thought is our big enemy, guided by ego that walks on evil path.
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One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.
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There have always been people during periods of history that thought that we could get along with the enemy if only we would reach out. Peace in our time is a philosophy.
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Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
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“Sarcasm,” he said, “is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you’ve run out of bullets.” Siri
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We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
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The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I'm concerned, he's public enemy No. 1. We're never going to have a recovery while this guy's in charge.
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If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this?
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Comfort is the enemy of the artist.
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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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.
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I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn't need to be given "permission" to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them.
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Commercial radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.
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The arms of the enemy are too short to box with God! In Christ, we have the victory.
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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
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King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."
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And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
