Quotes About Enemies

Contre qui, rose, avez-vous adopté ces épines? Votre joie trop fine vous a-t-elle forcée de devenir cette chose armée? Mais de qui vous protège cette arme exagérée? Combien d'ennemis vous ai-je enlevés qui ne la craignaient point? Au contraire, d'été en automne, vous blessez les soins qu'on vous donne.

An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, — He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

Until a bhakta has not abandoned himself and his life to you, so that he is yours and you his, the passions of his heart are his enemies, his home is a prison, and all his attachments are bondage. Once the surrender is effected, and all these old enemies turned over to you, they transform themselves into the most potent gifts for the life of devotion. When the Lord becomes one's own! With such bhakti, a man becomes a natural Sannyasi.

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

Those are not my friends, the ones who got me to tear the strips apart and so tear my own life down the middle; they are my enemies.

Enemies come, too, from opinions and thoughts. In five seconds you've made an enemy for life. Life's so short enemies must be made quickly.

They were dying slowly—it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now,—nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom.

Juzga a un hombre tanto por sus amigos como por sus enemigos.

He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right-wing friends to his Communist enemies, and he was thoroughly detested by both groups, who never defended him to anyone because they thought he was a dope.

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

namely, never interfere when your enemies are busily engaged in flagrant acts of self-destruction.

Love is not a feeling, which is, at most, merely an accidental attribute associated with it. We love our God, our spouses, our parents, our children, our friends, and our enemies, but we clearly do not have the same feelings toward our spouses as we have toward our friends or our enemies. Feelings vary; the love remains. Philosophically speaking, feelings are accidental; love is substantial.

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you to show that you are the children of your Father Who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and makes the rain fall upon the upright and the wrongdoers [alike]. Matthew 5:44–45

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.

I mean-- no offense, Leonard, but you really don't like to climb ropes, and get into the Marine Corps, and kill your countriy's enemies, do you?" I said that it wasn't one of the big goals of my life. "Well, maybe you'd like me to get you into this corrective gym class, where you can study toe dancing, and grow up to be a little Commie, sissy boy," Mr. Jerris said. I told him I would like that just fine…

When we are wronged, we must seek revenge. It is in our culture, our bloodstream. Each time you kill or torture us, you are creating an extended family of enemies that is honor bound to take retribution. - Ibrahim Fawaz

ISIS doesn't crucify only because it is cruel. It crucifies because, according to the Koran, crucifixion is one of the proscribed punishments for the enemies of Islam. It crucifies because it must. We civilized Westerners find this almost impossible to comprehend.

veil that hides the future from us is woven by an angel of mercy. Unfortunately, there's no veil that can shield us from our past. It's filled with ghosts. The ghosts of loved ones. The ghosts of enemies. They're with us always. They're here with us now.

We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.

Cuando un grupo político decide tomar el poder ¿qué es lo que hace? En primer lugar, elige a sus enemigos, a la gente «diferente», judíos, gitanos, homosexuales, ateos, comunistas, anarquistas... Es una antigua regla: «¡Dadme un enemigo y moveré el mundo! ¡Permanezcamos unidos, permanezcamos juntos y destruyamos a esta escoria! ¡Llenemos las cárceles con estos infames, Dios está con nosotros!».

In Psalm 68 we are reminded that Yahweh is not an aloof, austere King who stands afar and is unconcerned for the needs of His people. Rather, He daily bears our burdens, providing us a way of escape from enemies and troubles.