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Quotes About Enemy

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.
~ William Shakespeare
If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend
~ Paulo Coelho
Love your enemy. It will not only puzzle him, But finally illumine him.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.
~ Lawrence Durrell
God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.
~ Peter Kreeft
Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.
~ Tom Shadyac
Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.
~ Khalil Gibran
The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn't got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.
~ Bob Hope
Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War.
~ Max Brooks
most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. How
~ Max Brooks
most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
~ Max Brooks
By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from a history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as "the living dead"?
~ Max Brooks
They teach you how to resist the enemy, how to protect your mind and spirit. They don't teach you how to resist your own people, especially people who think they're trying to "help" you see "the truth.
~ Max Brooks
Betray. The word is an eighth of an inch above betroth in the dictionary, but a world from betroth in life. It's a weapon found only in the hands of one you love. Your enemy has no such tool, for only a friend can betray. Betrayal is mutiny. It's a violation of a trust, an inside job.
~ Max Lucado
Adam gave me a scandalized look. Fraternizing with the enemy! he cried. For shame, wench!
~ Meg Cabot
Even a steadfast enemy was better than a waffler.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
The gate was made out of blocks of stone bigger across than I am tall. Something else supposedly built by the old gods, it was topped by a solid stone lintel with two carved lions that were supposed to roar if an enemy of the king passed beneath them. At least they were said to be lions. The stone had been weathered by the centuries, and only indistinct monster figures remained, facing each other over a short pillar. They remained silent as we passed under.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
And the Emperor's dunderheaded idiot Knights of the Throne would refuse to ride a mare or a gelding. This made absolutely no sense at all, of course. If Kordas had been an enemy commander, one of his first moves would be to send a loose, wild mare in heat out onto the battlefield as soon as the Knights put in an appearance, but in the Empire, when masculine ego came into play, logic flew right out the window.
~ Mercedes Lackey
We, the Sworn Sisterhood, do solemnly vow to take back Acadia from those who are responsible for the scourge of the dragon and the tempests. We will fight them with our hands and our weapons. We will fight them with the power of our conviction. We will face the enemy without fear. We will take the enemy down and bring the enemy to justice and there is nothing that can stand in our way.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Make your motivations secret to the enemy, fool them into false planning, use their force against them, lead them onto harsh ground, hold true to the beliefs of your followers, and show them the ways they may become like you. Lead by example.
~ Mercedes Lackey
The neat binary categories of white and black or male and female are not there when it comes to class. How will they identify the enemy. How will they know who to fear or who the challenge.
~ bell hooks
Anyone who believes that you can make art from language is part of a small, nearly-vanishing community, and we should all form a wedge and march on the enemy. Do we need different uniforms in this struggle, different stripes on our arms so that it's clear who the realists are? Maybe, but I care less and less.
~ Ben Marcus