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Quotes About Enemy

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Take care, my worthy host, said Albert, better is a sure enemy to well.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Death is either a friend who rocks us gently as a nurse, or an enemy who violently drags the soul from the body.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Treville understood admirably well the warfare of that period, when, if you did not live at the enemy's expense, you lived at the expense of your compatriots: his soldiers formed a legion of daredevils, undisciplined for anyone else but him.
~ Alexandre Dumas
men who are truly generous are always ready to compassionate when the misfortune of their enemy surpasses the limits of their hatred.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Treville understood admirably the war method of that period, in which he who could not live at the expense of the enemy must live at the expense of his compatriots.
~ Alexandre Dumas
No war material has ever made that much difference.' 'No? I cite the fission bomb of 1945. I cite the Null-G anti-gravity installations of 2022. Talley's All-Field Radar Trip-Screen of 2194. Material can often make the difference, especially when there's the chance of the enemy getting it first.
~ Alfred Bester
The sea was a dangerous enemy, and we were surrounded by it. But I remembered what my father had told me. You could grow to love something so strong and elemental, but you'd have to value the beauty of it more than you did your own life.
~ Alice Hoffman
People brought up cruelly (and unfortunately that is still the majority) willingly submit to dictators and cheer them on when they supply them with an enemy they can execrate.
~ Alice Miller
kill the Big Monster first. You unravel the brainwashing and see alcohol for what it really is: an addictive poison that controls and debilitates those who take it. Then the Little Monster is easy to deal with. In fact, you can enjoy the process, confident in the knowledge that you're destroying a mortal enemy.
~ Allen Carr
Consult, v.t. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on. Contempt, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
~ Ambrose Bierce
ANTAGONIST, n. The miserable scoundrel who won't let us.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I used to love to hear stories of that man's exploits! One of my heroes, when I was young. Riding round the enemy, harassing his lines of communication, falling on the baggage train and whatnot." The Prince's riding crop rode around, harassed, and fell on imaginary baggage in the air before him.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are the dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.
~ Joe Abercrombie
One need not love one's enemy, or even fear him, to desire peace. One need only love oneself.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Cosca squinted through his eyeglass towards the mass of soldiery on the far side of the river. The enemy, though he held no personal rancour towards them. The battlefield was no place for rancour.
~ Joe Abercrombie
fear them?" "One need not love one's enemy, or even fear him, to desire peace. One need only love oneself.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The Northman chuckled. 'Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are the dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.
~ Joe Abercrombie
above him, the crossed hammers and the lion, holed and torn from victories in the North but never taken by an enemy. He smiled up as the sea wind made it flap and
~ Joe Abercrombie
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
~ Joel Osteen
God is fighting your battles. When you're at rest, God will make your enemies your footstool.
~ Joel Osteen
You will overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy
~ Joel Osteen
The enemy would love for you to worry about things that are never going to happen. He would love for you to miss the beauty of this day because you're so anxious about tomorrow. Don't fall into that trap.
~ Joel Osteen
What you say when the enemy is roaring is very important. Speak victory in the face of defeat, speak peace in the face of fear, speak health in the face of sickness, speak abundance in the face of lack.
~ Joel Osteen