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Quotes About Enemy

She made a suck-bad prisoner of war wanting to sleep with the enemy.' (Abbie)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
~ Edmund Spenser
Never make a fuss-it might attract the attention of an enemy tribe.
~ Paulo Coelho
A Warrior of the Light does not accept gifts from his enemy.
~ Paulo Coelho
Forgive your enemy, but do not mistake him for a friend.
~ Paulo Coelho
An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.
~ Paulo Coelho
Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.
~ Tom Jones
Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
~ John F. Kennedy
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. [Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961]
~ John F. Kennedy
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
~ John F. Kennedy
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
~ John F. Kennedy
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Halt shook his head. "You warriors don't do much geography in Battleschool, do you?" Horace shrugged. "We're not big on that sort of thing. We wait for our leader to point to an enemy and say, 'Go whack him.' We leave geography and such to Rangers. We like you to feel superior." "Go whack him, indeed," Halt said. "It must be comforting to lead such an uncomplicated life.
~ John Flanagan
But Hal shook his head angrily. "It's the enemy you don't see that gets you.
~ John Flanagan
Give an enemy one chance to surrender. But one chance only. After that, take action.
~ John Flanagan
Rikard nodded. Once Andras and the Raven's crew members left, he thought, he'd give them time to get clear. Then he and his men would head for the Stingray, moored against the quay in the inner harbor. Let Raven's crew do the fighting, he thought. They could keep the enemy occupied while Stingray slipped away.
~ John Flanagan
And as for the Pope, I refuse him as Christ's enemy, and antichrist, with all his false doctrine.
~ John Foxe
Speed and simplicity: these are the keywords to overcome the enemy.
~ John Giordani
What harm is done by that commonplace word? What distinctions will not, cannot be drawn where enemy holds sway? Is the concept "enemy" the enemy of clear thought, therefore of justice? What is gained by its invocation? Perhaps as important, what is lost?
~ John Jeremiah Sullivan
the British and the Americans still viewed destroyers as ships which could be 'thrown in' against the enemy battle line without regard to consequences – in a word they were 'expendable'.
~ John Jordan
Von Clausewitz («Toda guerra presupone la debilidad humana…») y de Sun Tzu («Dale a tus enemigos lo que esperan… esto los colocará en una situación de predictibilidad… mientras tú esperas el momento extraordinario, lo que ellos no pueden anticipar»)
~ John Katzenbach
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.
~ John Knowles
Instead of blaming us, find your true enemy. And, where the offence is, there let the great axe fall.
~ John Marsden