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Quotes About Adversaries

When you're in championships, it's never about what you do. It's always about what other people do.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
~ Mahershala Ali
Batman has what is quite possibly the best rogues' gallery every created. People who have never read a comic can name half a dozen of his foes, and that's barely scratching the surface.
~ Gail Simone
to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history & the written word were friends, rather than adversaries!
~ Richard Flanagan
The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love the pride of my adversaries, of my servants, and my lover; and my house shall be, in all humility, in the wilderness a civilized place.
~ Karen Blixen
The merciful man is rarely victorious. One's enemies are like snakes; though one may learn to handle them, they are always poisonous.
~ Karen Essex
What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
~ Joseph Addison
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
~ Edward Young
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]
~ George Herbert
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.
~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
~ Bill Gates
We Kurd must do everything in our power to create structures which prevent the repeat of mass murder by our adversaries, And It's better to call for independence.
~ Davan Yahya Khalil
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
~ Walter Lippmann
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
~ Ronald Reagan
To all my enemies, I will destroy you.
~ Frankie Boyle
pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
~ William B. Irvine
OTHER PEOPLE, as we have seen, are the enemy in our battle for tranquility. It was for this reason that the Stoics spent time developing strategies for dealing with this enemy
~ William B. Irvine
For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?
~ William Tyndale
I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't
~ John McCain
There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and that's what I enjoy the most.
~ Casey Stoner
The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from them).
~ Gichin Funakoshi