Quotes About Adversaries

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few, but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

Just like in everything else, there are people in football who you don't particularly like.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with this knowledge it was that I confounded and silenced all my adversaries; for they seek not to fathom and understand the Scriptures; they run them over negligently and drowsily; they speak, they write, they teach, according to the suggestion of their heedless imaginations.

The next time that we meet we meet as enemies!

You must understand: the unholy trinity Scripture names as the world, our flesh, and the evil one conspire to undermine your character.

Danny knew what Armando would say: "You don't try to make peace with assholes," or words to that effect

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift— "THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, MORAL AND DIVERTING

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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Your enemies don't care about you or your life so stop listening to their opinions of you. Their job is to make you miserable.

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

Our cruellest adversaries are not those who contradict and try to convince us, but those who exaggerate or invent things that are liable to distress us, taking care not to present them in a justifiable light, which would diminish our distress and perhaps lead us to entertain some slight respect for an attitude they are anxious to display to us, to complete our torment, as being both hideous and unassailable.

In point of fact, we always discover after the event that our adversaries had a reason for taking the side they do take, and one that does not depend on the degree to which that side is in the right, and that those who think as we do have been constrained to do so by, if their moral nature is too contemptible to be invoked, intelligence, and if they have no great acumen, uprightness.

Françoise had not yet grasped that our cruelest adversaries are not those who contradict and try to convince us, but those who exaggerate or invent things that are likely to distress us, taking care not to present them in any justifiable light, which would diminish our distress and perhaps lead us to entertain some slight respect for an attitude they are anxious to display to us, to complete our torment, as being both hideous and unassailable.

To win against your enemies you have to do the OPPOSITE of what they expect you to do.

In reality we always discover afterwards that our adversaries had a reason for being on the side they espoused, which has nothing to do with any element of right that there may be on that side, and that those who think as we do do so because their intelligence, if their moral nature is too base to be invoked, or their straightforwardness, if their penetration is feeble, has compelled them.