Close Enemy Quotes

#1. If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.

John Jay Chapman

#2. I thought it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox,
-Jace

Cassandra Clare

#3. To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a common enemy.

Paul Graham

#4. Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move ... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example

George S. Patton

#5. In the city that the wolf enters, enemies will be close by. An alien force will sack a great country. Allies will cross the mountains and the borders.

Nostradamus

#6. Death is very close, he thought. When you think in this manner. I can feel it, he decided. How near I am. Nothing is killing me; I have no enemy, no antagonist; I am merely expiring, like a magazine subscription: month by month.

Philip K. Dick

#7. We are not only to use our armor to protect and defend ourselves from them - as important as that is - but also to go on the offensive against them as well. When we do that, we close doors to the enemy and open doors to the will of God to be done on earth. We advance God's kingdom.

Stormie O'martian

#8. Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest distance and knock him down from point-blank range. You'll get him from in close. At long distance, it's questionable.

Erich Hartmann

#10. Keep your friends close and your enemies dead.

Paul Dale

#11. The outsiders have become kings and queens of the castle. It is a whole lot easier to sit outside the tent and throw firecrackers inside; it is much, much harder to sit inside the tent and govern not only your enemies, but your close friends as well.

Hal Rothman

#12. Your big heart will make you care and care a lot - About nature, a friend, a moment, even an enemy. Sometimes you will feel no one else does. Take a breath and trust it will be momentarily. Keep looking for those who care and keep them close to you.

Septem Nuntius

#13. I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

Jay-Z

#14. Don't believe what you hear, don't believe what you see.
If you just close your eyes.
You can feel the enemy.

U2

#15. The more you run away from the devil, the more you will realize that it is closer to you than before. Don't run away from it; RESIST the devil and it will FLEE from you!

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. Nico wasn't sure whether to kick himself or Will Solace. If he hadn't been so distracted bickering with the son of Apollo, he would never have allowed the enemy to get so close.

Rick Riordan

#17. The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

Horatio Nelson

#18. We were friends, somehow. But in the end, somehow, he intended to be a mortal enemy. All the while that he was making the gestures of a close and precious friend he was fattening my soul in a coop till it was ready for killing

Saul Bellow

#19. A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

Rajneesh

#20. Keep your fiends close and your enemies even closer.

Sun Tzu

#21. Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

Chuck Close

#22. It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

Michael Lewis

#23. The enemy was close. Despite my fear, I was somehow having fun. Being chased and killed by villains was a thrilling vision. My paranoia really excited me.
It stimulated me. In short, it was pleasant.
If it was pleasant, it also must be fun.

Tatsuhiko Takimoto

#24. Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

Abraham Lincoln

#25. Keep their friends close and their enemies closer.

Sun Tzu

#26. I know something of taking an enemy into your bosom. His blade goes in quicker when he is close. With

Robert Jordan

#27. she was this close to getting the guts and becoming the unthinkable and loathsome family enemy - an Independent Author.

Lucian Bane

#28. As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.

Pete Hegseth

#29. Keep your friends close and ridiculously gorgeous guys who should be your enemy even closer.

Lisa Roecker

#30. Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov

#31. Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

Audre Lorde

#32. Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one's spirit, the more vulnerable it is.

Andrew Vachss

#33. Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?"
"I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.

Cassandra Clare

#34. I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.

Wanda Sykes

#35. Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

Jane Addams