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Quotes About Enemy

This was dreadful news for the British. It meant that the long Spanish coastline was now enemy territory.
~ Unknown
The hostile shore facing the British stretched now from the Friesian Islands in the north
~ Unknown
Badcock's ship had already tried to push ahead of the Victory and lead the dash towards the enemy line,
~ Unknown
The enemy of our country is poverty and hopelessness.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
We are living in very interesting times, and the enemy wants us to talk on prosperity, breakthrough, success, and every other thing except the coming of the Lord.
~ Unknown
Contempt for common evaluations; one should even take care to avoid straying accidentally into the right. Even to be an enemy is too comforting; one must be an alien, a beast. Nothing is more absurd than a philosopher seeking to be liked.
~ Unknown
Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader's limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books that blunt his critical sense and damage his literary sensibility. (I, 258)
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The soul should open itself up to foreign invasion, refuse to defend itself, favor the enemy, so that our authentic being appears and arises, not like a fragile structure protected by our timidity, but like our rock, our incorruptible granite.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Even the enemy of technology denounces its public, but trivial, outrages more than its invisible, but disastrous, destructions. (As if contemporary man's feverish migration, for instance, were disturbing because of traffic accidents.)
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
By God, the point of the thing is not in this property, which can be confiscated, but in that which no one can steal and carry off! ... Forget this noisy world and all its seductive fancies; let it forget you, too. There is no peace in it. You see: everything in it is either an enemy, a tempter, or a traitor.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
~ Norman Podhoretz
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy–whether he knows it or not.
~ Unknown
Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.
~ Obert Skye
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
~ Olin Miller
Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. Frankly, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.
~ Omar Bradley
These two misfortunes happen to armies, to become so terrified of the enemy that they are unwilling to attempt any offensive, and so bold that they are unwilling to take any precautionary measures. With regard to each the general must arrange his plans, and know when by voice and look he must make the enemy appear weak, and when more threatening and formidable.
~ Unknown
Christmas Gift Suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
~ Oren Arnold
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.
~ Orson Scott Card
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
~ Orson Welles
For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
~ Os Guinness
We stress the importance of martyrdom operations against the enemy, these attacks that have scared Americans and Israelis like never before.
~ Osama bin Laden
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.
~ Unknown
The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
~ Oswald Chambers
The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough.
~ Oswald Chambers