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Quotes About Enemy

Your mind is your biggest enemy and your dearest friend.
~ Debasish Mridha
Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Cuando se le agotaba el fuego, ingería de nuevo la lava que había vomitado o devoraba las armas de los enemigos caídos y las fundía en el crisol que tenía por estómago.
~ Javier Negrete
En una discusión, triunfamos cuando convencemos al público. En una lucha, vencemos cuando dominamos al enemigo.
~ Jay Heinrichs
Now is not the time to grow weary in the face of evil. Now is not the time to allow our hunger for peace to obscure our enemy's desire for war. Innocent lives are at stake, and immense evil is on the march. Let's call our nation to action again.
~ Jay Sekulow
The highest moment of freedom was attained. To fire on God, to wound him and make him a deadly enemy. I fired. I fired three shots.
~ Jean Genet
Todellinen vihollinen löytyy poikkeuksetta linjojen takaa, omasta selustasta, ei koskaan edestä eikä myöskään sisältä. Jokainen ammattisotilas tietää tämän, ja kaikissa armeijoissa kaikkina aikoina on esiintynyt kiusausta jättää muodollinen vihollinen sikseen ja kääntyä ympäri selvittämään tilit todellisen vihollisen kanssa kerta kaikkiaan!
~ Jean Raspail
The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard--especially if a lot of people prayed at once--maybe God would change things. The trouble was, what if your enemy was praying, too? Which prayer would God listen to?
~ Jeanne DuPrau
For so long there had been a deadness. For so long I'd sat back and watched the world go by without me. The world had become the enemy, because it wasn't essentially real. Everyday human
~ Jeff Foster
This has the benefit of originality," I said. "I agree. Keep them off balance. Hurl crazy hookers at the enemy at every opportunity. Sun Tzu said that, didn't he?" "I believe he did.
~ Jeff Johnson
Pride can easily cause us to nod our heads in agreement at God's Word and yet not allow it to gain traction in our hearts and minds. Complacency is one of the Christian's worst enemies.
~ Jeff Kinley
In unusual situations there can be a comfort in the presence of even someone you think might be your enemy.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Delusional. Naïve. Unworkable. Dangerous. That is what the enemy called the necessities for survival. For flourishing.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
In the end, if you change the enemy enough, if you wear them down, perhaps losing is good enough.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
La vida es imposible cuando se es cobarde- dijo Dinello. [...] -La timidez o es cobardía o es cortesía y hay que romperla con un gesto brutal- agregó Dinello [...] -¡Cruzar las líneas enemigas!- Contestó él sin titubear.
~ Elena Garro
In retrospect I must confess that I do not know, or no longer know, what I wanted to achieve with my words. I only know that without this testimony, my life as a writer—or my life, period—would not have become what it is: that of a witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory.
~ Elie Wiesel
How was one to rehabilitate and transform words betrayed and perverted by the enemy?
~ Elie Wiesel
man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves. Hell is the burning fever that makes you feel cold.
~ Elie Wiesel
A mn ages hs enemy because he hates his own hate. He says to himself: I hate him not because he's my enemy, not because he hates me, but because he arouses me to hate.
~ Elie Wiesel
You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves.
~ Elie Wiesel
Stripped of their property, crushed and mutilated, they still embody the nobility of Israel and the eternity of God, while their enemy—who is your enemy as well—embodies all that is most vile in man. I shall act not as their detractor, but as their melitz yosher, their intercessor.
~ Elie Wiesel
Armies and governments the world over have a definite technique for provoking hate. By speeches and films and other kinds of propaganda they create an image of the enemy in which he is the incarnation of evil, the symbol of suffering, the fountainhead of the cruelty and injustice of all times.
~ Elie Wiesel
Plantain branches, like these ones here, Sister Whittaker, are also said to be symbolic of the human body. Because of that shape, plantains are used as gestures of peace—as gestures of humanity, you might say. You throw one on the ground at the feet of your enemy, to show your surrender or your willingness to consider compromise.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Unlike the land, where courage and the simple will to endure can often see a man through, the struggle against the sea is an act of physical combat, and there is no escape. It is a battle against a tireless enemy in which man never actually wins; the most that he can hope for is not to be defeated. It gave Shackleton
~ Alfred Lansing