Quotes About Enemy

In America's 'nonlinear war', with no frontline or clear political or territorial goals, the number of enemy killed apparently revealed who was 'winning'. 'The military kill' became 'the prime target, simply because the essential political target is too elusive for us, or worse, because we do not understand its importance'.

At the present rate of attrition, Haig delighted in informing the prime minister, 'the enemy's man power will be running out next May or June at the latest'.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

As Richard mounted his horse to follow, some of his Household protested that he must not wear into battle the helmet with the golden crown, for it would mark him as the prime target for the enemy. Quietly Richard replied that he would live, and die, King of England.

I learned from my parents the ability to question, never to trust implicitly those in charge, not to believe the promises made in speeches and never to ignore the atrocious propaganda posters in public places … this kind of propaganda is designed to cause fear, and people who live in fear of a common enemy can be easily manipulated.

The chief enemy of creativity at work is not time. It is fear.

The story raises the ugly truth about international banks assisting in the creation of a formidable enemy and then making tons of money financing an American war machine capable of containing it.

They had a red scalp and two blond scalps, very long ones that waved and shook in the wind, and in that hair was the soul of the enemy held tight, tight. There was light all around them and all around their war horses and it was as beautiful and dangerous as the color of lightning.

La memoria... esa cruel enemiga del consuelo.

Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.

O sangue viscoso do inimigo escorria pelas falgas da montanha e transformava-se em lava seca, donde brotavam diamantes de ternura.

Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.

Your greatest enemy to conquer is that of practicing a lifestyle of sin.

if the enemy goes undetected and is not exposed, he will gain the advantage by default.

The enemy. As long as we never expose what he is doing, he will work in the darkness.

If you have the attention of the enemy, you also have the attention of God.

As I learn about pest control, it reminds me of international relations - fraught with unintended consequences and shifting alliances and deals, a place where the enemy of my enemy is my friend and has always been my friend and will always be my friend, until the next shift in the balance of power when it's suddenly the other way around. The whole thing is a delicate dance (...)

Inevitably, the Enemy will do anything to divorce prayer and proclamation - to stop the evangelist praying and the intercessor evangelising. Why? Because the two combined are explosive!

Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.

Ignorance is the enemy, curiosity the weapon of choice

It is the epitome of entropy, the final enemy of all things.

There must be so many humans spread across the galaxy now; it isn't hard to think they found one star that's safe from the enemy.

The enemy declared, ëI will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.í

And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.