Quotes About Adversary

There's no hero without a villain.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

The best way to beat the enemy is probably to go to their homeland. As our former leader Deng Xiaoping put it, we'll cross the river by touching the stones."49

Having thus disposed in his merciless way of an incautious adversary, Randolph proceeded to expose the follies of seeking abstract harmony in government, of expecting the great venerable Gothic edifice of society to conform to ideal classical proportions; with Burke, he believed that a state is better governed by the irregular patterns formed by common sense and tradition than by the laws of mathematics and the Procrustean methods of omnipotent majorities.

One day, he said that what you had to do in any adversarial situation was to kill the king, as in chess. I said people didn't have kings any more. He said he meant the centre of power, but today it wouldn't be a single person, it would be the technological connections.

Apple is our mentor, Facebook is our enemy.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

You have made yourselves an interesting adversary to one who loves challenges, and it will require all of my considerable influence to protect you individually and collectively from the avid lust you have so foolishly aroused.

He could almost hear her grind her teeth, and his mood lightened. Astonishing how entertaining it was to annoy his unwanted confederate.

This is your sword. You press the pointy end into the enemy. Try not to let him make eye contact with you and remember, he spits invisible poison. (Thorn)

An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.

Time is compared to golden sands running between two eternities, and 'tis an infinite mercy they are still running, that you have a day to work out your salvation, to agree with your adversary while he is in the way [Matt. 5:25; Phil. 2:12]--namely, to make up the breach between God and your soul (Rev. 2:21).

Su oponente era alguien que sabía que, a menudo, lo que nos amenaza de verdad y cuesta más de combatir es algo que procede de nuestro interior.

My enemy and my rider's enemy. He hunts her creatures.

Man is, without doubt, the defacer, the destroyer. But spending at least the last three years in trying to understand the enemy has almost seduced me to his side.

The German delegation, led by a clutch of Social Democratic politicians, arrived in Paris in early May. They expected to be treated, especially by Wilson, as a fellow democratic nation, there to negotiate a final equitable peace. Instead, to their shock and humiliation, they were received as a beaten adversary to be punished and reduced to impotence, while Wilson sat mutely by, doing nothing.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

Un lector es lo que antes ha leído, más el cine y la televisión que ha visto. A la información que le proporcione el autor, siempre añadirá la suya propia. Y ahí está el peligro: el exceso de referencias puede haberle fabricado a usted un adversario equivocado, o irreal.

Water shapes its course according to the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

You have to have an enemy to react against. We think it's important to have a sort of us-versus-them situation.

I loved playing Green Bay.