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Quotes About Enemy

This is how mankind has always thought of the enemy — as the one who, if you do not kill him first, will sooner or later kill you.
~ Lee Harris
I'm researching the types of weapons used in jihad. My thesis is that they reflect the technology of their time and are often the same as those used by the enemy.' I chewed on my toast. 'Well, that makes sense.' 'But it violates some of the Sharia's rules, rules which have been conveniently forgotten. Such as not using fire because it is only Allah's prerogative to burn sinners in Hell. No human being should use fire on another human being.
~ Leila Aboulela
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
~ Lennart Nilsson
The sages taught the Jews not to rejoice over another's misfortune. "Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth" (Proverbs 24:17). (I must confess that I have always enjoyed gloating over the comeuppance suffered by the detestable, regardless of race, color, or creed.)
~ Leo Rosten
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I am trying to use reason and intelligence, said the strange new mongoose. Reason is six-sevenths of treason, said one of his neighbors. Intelligence is what the enemy uses, said another.
~ James Thurber
Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself. There will be times when he will surround you with walls of darkness. But remember always that your soul is secure to you, for your soul is entire, and that he cannot enter your soul, for your soul is part of God.
~ Jane Yolen
Ranger is a man of few words. He's Cuban-American, former Special Forces, he makes a much better friend than an enemy, and he's Vinnie's numero uno bounty hunter.
~ Janet Evanovich
I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy. -white oleander
~ Janet Fitch
I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despair wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favourite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy.
~ Janet Fitch
I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despair wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy.
~ Janet Fitch
I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despair wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy. It frightened me for Claire to bare her needs so openly. If a person needed something badly, it was my experience that it would surely be taken away. I didn't need to put mirrors on the roof to know that.
~ Janet Fitch
Despair wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy. It
~ Janet Fitch
I am not afraid of death, Abigail. I am afraid that I might draw back and not be bold in proclaiming the gospel." He hesitated, then said, "And I am afraid that I might not stand firm. That under the heel of the enemy, in pain, I might deny my Lord.
~ Janette Oke
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
~ Carroll O'Connor
President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.
~ Pete Hegseth
We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.
~ Emmanuelle Chriqui
The truth is nobody was a Muslim until Public Enemy came out. Then, everybody was Muslim this and Muslim that. It's a bandwagon thing. Islam is a way of life... it's a religion. It's not just something you put on a record.
~ KRS-One
But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
~ Paul Weyrich
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.
~ Douglas Bader
Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
~ Ban Ki-moon
The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].
~ John S. Mosby
Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work
~ Napoleon Bonaparte