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Quotes About Enemies

If you can't make your enemies trust you, you can at least make them mistrust each other.
~ Joe Abercrombie
There's only one kind of good news, and that's dead enemies.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Generosity and goodwill sit well on you but they simply do not go with my complexion at all. A certain number of bitter enemies are an essential accessory for a lady of fashion.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood.
~ Joe Abercrombie
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.' Heinrich Heine
~ Joe Abercrombie
When God means to punish a man, the Kantic scriptures say, he sends him stupid friends, and clever enemies.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Where do we find allies?' Father Yarvi smiled. 'Among our enemies, where else?
~ Joe Abercrombie
Pick your enemies more carefully than your friends," Nothing was muttering at the flames. "They will be with you longer.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Only friends get left behind. Enemies are always at your heels. The
~ Joe Abercrombie
Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. And most of us would far rather have a king with no friends and no enemies, than a king with plenty of both. Most of us would rather have things stay as they are, than risk an uncertain future.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You might use your enemies to reaffirm your addiction to hatred, your parents to reaffirm your addiction to guilt, your Facebook feed to reaffirm your addiction to insecurity, the news to reaffirm your addiction to anger, your ex to reaffirm your addiction to resentment, and your relationship with money to reaffirm your addiction to lack.
~ Joe Dispenza
Stay on the high road. Let God be your vindicator. Let Him pay your enemies back. He sees what's happening. He sees every injustice, every hurt, every wrong. If you'll leave it up to God, He'll vindicate you better than you can vindicate yourself.
~ Joel Osteen
Proverbs 16:7 says, "When God approves of your life, even your enemies will end up shaking your hand" (The Message).
~ Joel Osteen
A regime responsible for such a scheme of mass killings was corrupt to the core and did not deserve to survive. It's a disgrace that we didn't overthrow it, but left it to be eradicated by our enemies.
~ Johann Voss
Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.
~ John Shelby Spong
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
~ Honore de Balzac
I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.
~ Romain Rolland
Meta-Essence is the life-force of Wonderland. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can. Use it wisely.
~ Cheshire Cat
This is no time to make new enemies.
~ Voltaire
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
~ Earl of Chesterfield
You found the words for what we feel. We curse your enemies, Mavis Moody." "Oh. Well, then, um…" "May they rot in hell.
~ Eden Robinson
To live, for him, has no meaning other than to drive oneself, to act with all one's strength. An existence without stress, without struggle, without growth has always struck him as mindless. Those who remain on the sidelines he sees as cowards, and consequently his personal enemies.
~ Edmund Morris
If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.
~ Edmund Morris
The tragedy of modern war is not so much that the young men die but that they die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
~ Edward Abbey