Quotes About Adversary

The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honor in challenging; it was ineptitude—a gray spread of cotton that 'seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way.

She thought suddenly that she was wrong about his lack of emotion: the hidden undertone of his manner was enjoyment. She realized that she had always felt a sense of light-hearted relaxation in his presence and known that he shared it. He was the only man she knew to whom she could speak without strain or effort. This, she thought, was a mind she respected, an adversary worth matching.

El adversario al que se veía obligada a combatir no le parecía ya digno de la lucha ni de la victoria; no era una superior inteligencia la que desafiaba, sino la ineptitud; una gris extensión algodonosa, blanda y sin forma, que no ofrecía resistencia a nada ni a nadie...

I began to understand the true nature of my adversary. I wasn't running against Hillary Clinton or John Edwards or even the Republicans. I was running against the implacable weight of the past; the inertia, fatalism, and fear it produced.

I began to understand the true nature of my adversary.

Je commençais à comprendre qui était réellement mon adversaire. Ce n'était pas contre Hillary Clinton ou contre John Edwards que je me battais, ni même contre les républicains. Je me battais contre le poids implacable du passé ; contre l'inertie, le fatalisme et la peur qu'il engendrait.

You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy.

debating with the devil had never been productive for anyone.

King immediately appreciated that Gandhi's theory of nonviolent resistance was not a moralistic affirmation of love, as nonviolence had been in the teachings of Jesus. Instead it was a set of hardheaded tactics to prevail over an adversary by outwitting him rather than trying to annihilate him.

to re-enter the roundtable of morality. As the psychologist Peter DeScioli points out, when you face an adversary alone, your best weapon may be an ax, but when you face an adversary in front of a throng of bystanders, your best weapon may be an argument.

People seek revenge by an accounting that exaggerates their innocence and their adversary's malice; when two sides seek perfect justice, they condemn themselves and their heirs to strife.

The soul willing to transform, as deeply as necessary, is the most effective enemy of the demonic serpents of ideology and totalitarianism, in their personal and social forms.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.

Bees are a warrior's greatest enemy.

Not a day goes by but what we have to deal with that ancient triple threat that Christians in the Middle Ages summarized under the headings of the world, the flesh and the devil:

Mark Hunt has a huge knockout power, but I will do my best to avoid that.

The science-denial machinery is a serious adversary, and it has a big advantage over real science: it does not need to win its dispute with real science; it just needs to create a public illusion that there is a dispute.

Brisbane Versus Becker

It never stopped seeming unlikely and magical to him, the way friction just quit, and gravity turned from adversary to ally.

A.M. The devil is

I would want to fight in the UFC or Bellator. Why CM Punk? Anyone, just a worthy adversary. It can't be a world-class fighter.

Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media player.

You have to beat your opponent, otherwise you get to walk home with a black eye and wounded pride.