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Quotes About Enemies

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.
~ C.J. Cherryh, Deceiver
Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.
~ Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!
~ John Green
My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they're dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.
~ Rick Riordan
The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies.
~ Dennis Miller
He was king, if he didn't have enemies he wasn't doing it right.
~ S.E. Zbasnik, The King's Blood
The answer to enemies who heal annoyingly fast is always, always decapitation. That is why swords will never go out of style.
~ Kevin Hearne, Hexed
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
~ Nelson Mandela
As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them.
~ Tikhon of Zadonsk
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen
~ Stephen King, The Stand
Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don't invite either into your mind.
~ Don Roff
A giggler always wins his/her enemies.
~ Euginia Herlihy
And then I got what she was saying. In the paranormal world, everyone was your enemy.
~ Jayde Scott
For the true victory,neither enemies nor allies don't die without difference
~ Jan Guillou
He was praying the Psalms, as he'd done in times past, with the enemies of King David translated into his own enemies of fear and remorse and self-loathing, which, in their legions, had become as armies of darkness.
~ Jan Karon
Let us bathe ourselves, our family, and friends in prayer. Let us bathe our work and our enemies in prayer. And let us always come boldly to the throne of grace . . . that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
~ Jan Karon
In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility.
~ Jane Hamilton
Buried under these rationalizations is a God-given intuition that serves as a compass to find authentic love. When women begin to doubt or ignore the voice of their conscience, they become their own worst enemies. They then wonder why love seems so elusive.
~ Jason Evert
Having an enemy gives you a great story to tell customers, too. Taking a stand always stands out. People get stoked by conflict. They take sides. Passions are ignited. And that's a good way to get people to take notice.
~ Jason Fried
Sin desgracias para nosotros, se entiende; para los enemigos, qué importa: sus desgracias son nuestra fortuna, hasta que termina la contienda y se rinden.
~ Javier Marías
Destroying your enemies—even destroying a planet—was understandable. But this wasn't simple destruction. It was annihilation; obliteration. The very fabric of the Force had been shredded. Anyone capable of turning an entire planet into a nihilistic abomination had to be completely mad.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
Sometimes the 'fault' you perceive in another isn't even there. It is a total misinterpretation, a projection by a mind conditioned to see enemies and to make itself right or superior. At other times, the fault may be there, but by focusing on it, sometimes to the exclusion of everything else, you amplify it. And what you react to in another, you strengthen in yourself.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself. In that sense, you have much to learn from your enemies
~ Eckhart Tolle
The others are most other when I see them as my enemies.
~ Eckhart Tolle