Quotes About Enemies

In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there's no margin in having enemies.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.

The attack of the Jews and all secret enemies occurs, as it has for centuries, via seeds of discord, via lies, calumny, via shameless intrigue.

What Höss rationalised as hate for the enemies of the state might be better described as a sense of power and contempt for the inmates fostered in the guards by the camp system.

Ah efendim, dedi, bizi bizden daha iyi biliyorlar; Mesnevi'yi de, Rubiyat'? da, Gazali'yi de, Farabi'yi de bizden daha çok okuyorlar; bizden daha çok takdir ediyorlar; bizim bizden daha büyük dü?man?m?z yoktur efendim, yoktur.

The Dalai Lama calls it "the enemy's gift." From a Buddhist perspective, battling with enemies can help you develop greater compassion for and tolerance of others. "In order to practice sincerely and to develop patience," he says, "you need someone who willfully hurts you. Thus, these people give us real opportunities to practice these things. They are testing our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot.

The reason that Islamist militants can assert that jihad is necessary against the perceived enemies of Islam is that there is sufficient ammunition in the Quran to buttress their beliefs. The same could also, of course, be said for the Old Testament, which is full of scenes of violent death visited on the enemies of God.

If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies - it will fall apart on its own.

With enemies, it's easier to just have them be straight-up bad guys so they can just get beaten up.

I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

Hay que tener cuidado al elegir a los enemigos porque uno termina pareciéndose a ellos.

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny.

What is the kingdom [of God]? it lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.

The image of the Church favored by the Pope is that of a "field hospital" that welcomes in those injured and heals their wounds. Meanwhile, for fundamentalists, their image of the Church is "the fortress on the hilltop" that protects the "true believers" and defends the true faith against all the enemies of God.

I hate [slavery] because it deprives the republican example of its just influence in the world—enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites—causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

the sky. Finally, he looked down at them. "They're in space together," he said. "They're supposed to be our enemies, but they're up there laughing and screwing around." He lowered the directional and looked at Jun Do. "You were wrong," he said. "You were wrong—they are doing it for peace and fucking brotherhood.

Some men so needfully require complication, they find themselves defending their enemies.

An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both his friends and foes.

Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.