Quotes About Adversary

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

I was point man, which meant I was the first through the door, hunting down Taliban commanders, knocking down forts every night.

I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people - just talking bad.

I guess, if someone was really kicking your ass, you'd want them to be special. I mean, I'd rather have Batman kick my ass than Mickey Mouse any day.

Hay aspectos en los que sigue aferrado a esa vieja rivalidad. ¿Es cierto que odiaba a Lewis? «Bueno, era mi rival, así que no quiero ser amigo de alguien a quien tengo que vencer», explica Johnson. «Fue mi primer y último gran rival. El único».

Know your enemy. Know the terrain. Know the conditions under which the battle will be fought.

I can be a good friend, or a bad enemy.

If you know yourself but not your enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. - Teddy Sumner

Thank goodness we don'y meet many people like [Miss Trunchbull] in this world, although they do exist and all of us are likely to come across at least one of them in a lifetime. If you ever do, you should behave as you would if you met an enraged rhinoceros out in the bush--climb up the nearest tree and stay there until it has gone away.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

Without a worthy opponent a man or group cannot grow stronger.

It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.

Every dangerous creature had a weakness. I would find his. If we were supposed to play to win, I would dominate. You don't know me at all. . . .

Napoleon said, 'When your enemy is doing something stupid, don't interfere.

That sense of entitlement is precisely where we want them because the right to happiness is directly opposed to one of The Adversary's greatest curatives —gratitude.

They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.

Churchill , he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.

Never fear your enemy but always respect them

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

To defeat your adversary and bury him is one thing. To dress him in a jester's costume and have him perform for you is another, more crushing blow. He survives to give witness to his own powerlessness."16 This is what both Chaplin and Brooks did to Hitler.

If you can hit your opponent's nose more than he can hit yours, you too will taste victory.

A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

And thou shalt smite thine enemy even unto the wall, gnashing thy teeth, and he shall grow small in thy mirrors.