Enemy Quotes
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Kerchak was dead. Withdrawing the knife that had so often rendered him master of far mightier muscles than his own, Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his vanquished enemy, and once again, loud through the forest rang the fierce, wild cry of the conqueror.And thus came the young Lord Greystoke into the kingship of the Apes.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
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Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.
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There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.
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Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
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Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.
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A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.
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Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.
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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.
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Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.
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Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
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We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.
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We have shown that even in trench warfare it is possible to mystify and mislead the enemy.
