Quotes About Enemies

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

Not many people are enemies to anyone. But the ones full of greed or hate, pride or fear—their passion is strong enough to lever all the world into war.

En el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en el que le entiendo lo suficientemente bien como para derrotarle, entonces, en ese preciso instante, también le quiero.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy. I have learned from the buggers. You will learn from me.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think that it is rather vain.

It is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it.

I've been at some pains to tell you about myself because among other reasons I think we should know who our enemies are. I've known people to spend their lives nursing a hatred of phantoms and they were not happy people.

There was no wind and the silence out there was greatly favored by every kind of fugitive as was the open country itself and no mountains close at hand for enemies to black themselves against.

Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.

Whenever he felt the sharp pangs of homesickness he had come back here to his old enemies, where he didn't feel quite so out of place.

Es mejor tener mil enemigos fuera de casa que uno dentro. Proverbio árabe

But the smile with which he watched the soldiers pass was the smile of a man who had hid an explosive device in his enemies' house and was enjoying mingling with them knowing they had no idea he had planted that bomb. Wicked old man.

If you are a warrior, the nature and scale of your enemies will determine the nature and scale of your actions. In this sense, it is even more important to choose your enemies more wisely than your friends.

I met Pendragon when I made the journey to the far desert. He is from the tribe known as...as... Loor was scrambling. Bokka didn't know about the Travelers. I had to bail her out. Yankees, I said. The Yankees tribe. Hey, what can I say? It was the first thing that came to mind. It's a strong tribe, I added. Respected by all...except for our mortal enemies, the Sox tribe. They hate us. Especially the Red ones. Cannibals. Nasty characters.

Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin completed the manuscript of his immortal book The Origin Of Species he realized that the publication of his revolutionary concept of creation would rock the intellectual and religious worlds. So he became his own critic and spent another 15 years checking his data, challenging his reasoning, and criticizing his conclusions.

General Obregon's philosophy: "Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

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

This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since... I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.

You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You've hit no traitor on the hip. You've dashed no cup from perjured lip. You've never turned the wrong to right. You've been a coward in the fight.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

Warriors in some cultures drink the blood of their enemies. Some people consume the blood of animals." "As a rule, here on Ice Island, they restrain themselves.