Quotes About Allies

I think we draw people into our lives. It's as though we broadcast our deepest needs, and certain people hear the signal somewhere in their own subconscious and heed the call. For better or worse, we attract our teachers, our allies, and sometimes even our nightmares. Some of us have louder signals.

Carrie suddenly found herself flanked on one side by the Sholans and on the other by the guerrillas. Each side had its men grouped protectively around its Captain. "Perhaps you'd like to introduce us to the Sholans, Carrie," said Captain Skinner.

Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that of his enemies.

If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of her allies would speak even more loudly about clearly of her life.

Success can breed fake friends and true enemies...Keep your circle tight.

is the last word (I hope) on the horrors of the Vietnamese re-education camps that our allies were sentenced to when we left them swinging in the wind.

It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends. Wouldn't you agree, Commandant?

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

You have dangerous friends. You need not fear enemies.

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

You don't make peace with your friends.

They accept us as martyrs: maybe afterwards they'll put up monument in the ghettos, but as allies they won't accept us," Dov said (discussing the partisans and rebel groups who did not want to work with Jews)

Women watched their allies as much as their enemies, if they wished to prevent trouble and keep their power. Especially if all of their subordinates and peers were men. Unfair, perhaps, but practical.

It was unnerving to have allies who struck you as goofy; it made your own opinions seem suspect.

Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

My friends know that they're my friends - even my enemies know that they're my friends.

It is important to remember that if we treat people who could be allies as enemies, we can only alienate them from our cause.

Our friends, the enemy.

For the first three weeks in June, the conquistadors and their Indian allies fought skirmishes on the outskirts of the city.

On December 28, 1520, three days after the Feast of the Nativity, Cortés left Tlaxcala at the head of an army of 550 Spaniards, about 10,000 Indian allies, and forty horses. The next day, the army was in Mexican territory.

Cortés had allies in Tlaxcala who were prepared to stand by him in need. For twenty-two days, the captain general and his men rested and recovered from their wounds. During this period, Moctezuma's successor died of smallpox, and Cuauhtémoc, a young man of about twenty-five and Moctezuma's nephew, ascended the Aztec throne.