Quotes About Adversary

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

We are not to be alarmed when Satan hinders us, for it is proof that we are on the Lord's side and are doing the Lord's work. In His strength, we will win the victory and triumph over our adversary.

Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.

The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

better is a sure enemy to well.

Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream.

In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

Victory is sweet, but sweeter when your opponent is butt-ass naked in defeat.

COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

ANTAGONIST, n. The miserable scoundrel who won't let us.

He who ignores the law of probabilities challenges an adversary that is seldom beaten.

Satana: Vorrei chiedere un unico favore, egli disse. Dio: Di' pure. Mi risulta che sta per essere creato l'uomo. Avrà bisogno di leggi. Miserabile! Tu, destinato ad essere il suo avversario, tu, che dall'alba dell'eternità sei stato riempito d'odio per l'anima sua, tu chiedi il diritto di fargli le leggi? Chiedo perdono; ciò che domando è che gli sia permesso di farsele da solo". E così fu ordinato.

Satan has long been known as the Adversary, but God fears women even more than He fears the devil—and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man, and in all ways has proved Herself a more deserving object of man's worship than Christ, that unshaven fanatic who lusted for the end of the world.

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great adversary suffices and who can dispense with success. Life for him was an adventure, perilous indeed, but men are not made for safe havens. The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

A enemigo que huye puente de plata [If your enemy turns to flee, give him a silver bridge].

My desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.