Quotes About Adversaries

I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

In my career, I've been lucky to do the bad guys that are more interesting, where the audience wants to spend more time with them and get to know them. That's what I'm always looking for and trying to do.

I've always enjoyed bad guys throughout all movies.

passing: the righteous, fair-skinned Nephites, led by Nephi, and their bitter adversaries, the Lamanites, as the followers of Laman were known. The Lamanites were "an idle people, full of mischief and subtlety," whose behavior was so annoying to God that He cursed the whole lot of them with dark skin to punish them for their impiety.

If you couldn't kill your adversaries, or keep them imprisoned for ever, there was surely only one option left in the Colonel Alexander canon: you change their minds.

Hay que tener cuidado al elegir a los enemigos porque uno termina pareciéndose a ellos.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends

A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it's a good plan.

My adversaries… applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.

Let's learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.

I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.

No matter what one's side in any strife, some allies would make better enemies.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Lawyers and soldiers are the Devil's playmates.

Where history showed us only ramparts and frontiers, poetry discovered a mysterious predestination that makes two adversaries, whose meeting is inexorable, worthy of each other. And Homer asks no quarter, save from poetry, which repossesses beauty from death and wrests from it the secret of justice that history cannot fathom. To the darkened world poetry alone restores pride, eclipsed by the arrogance of the victors and the silence of the vanquished.

As individuals and as a nation we have become dependent on a vast digital infrastructure. That, in turn, has made us vulnerable to cybercriminals and foreign adversaries that target that infrastructure.

When I'm practising on my own, my game feels great, but there's a big difference between practising on your own and playing against people.

You've got to have baddies that you can boo.

As far as I'm concerned, I bowl at other team batsmen not at Indian batters.

You can give me top boxers, Adrien Broner, Mikey Garcia. I would love to get in the ring with them.

In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.

In politics, sometimes the best measure of success is the reaction of your enemies.