Top 100 Enemy In Quotes
#1. It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Thomas Paine
#2. With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. Then you will be able to fight with advantage.
Sun Tzu
#3. It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#4. I am not afraid of death, Abigail. I am afraid that I might draw back and not be bold in proclaiming the gospel." He hesitated, then said, "And I am afraid that I might not stand firm. That under the heel of the enemy, in pain, I might deny my Lord.
Janette Oke
#5. In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last
George Orwell
#6. The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.
Franz Halder
#7. Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
Robert Frost
#8. Do you know what a friend is, milord? (Emily)
An enemy in disguise. (Draven)
Kinley MacGregor
#9. Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach
Bob Dylan
#10. Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#11. Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.
Mao Zedong
#12. An enemy, in Karhide, is not a stranger, an invader. The stranger who comes unknown is a guest. Your enemy is your neighbor.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#13. To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
#14. Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him in most respects except the uniform. One possible tactic is to try to get the uniforms off.
Germaine Greer
#15. There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
George S. Patton
#16. Men of outstanding ability are more likely to lack the power of controlling their own people than of defeating an enemy in battle.
Livy
#17. Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
Erwin Rommel
#18. To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting
Jacqueline Carey
#19. When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#21. The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.
Chester W. Nimitz
#22. Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.
John Stuart Mill
#23. You can destroy an enemy in confrontation but to win a friend you have to love.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves
David Hackworth
#25. Angels and demons were identical
interchangeable archetypes
all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.
Dan Brown
#26. There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#27. It is safer to face a strong enemy in the field of battle, than to fight a war by the side of a weak friend.
Luis Marques
#28. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)
William Shakespeare
#29. I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.
Heather O'Neill
#30. The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters ... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#31. he was the friend who would become an enemy in order to remain a friend. 3
Anne Bishop
#32. Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.
Dan Aykroyd
#33. Ho, hm, well, we could, you know! You do not know, perhaps, how strong we are. Maybe you have heard of Trolls? They are mighty strong. But Trolls are only counterfeits, made by the Enemy in the Great Darkness, in mockery of Ents, as Orcs were of Elves.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#34. This sport is just crazy. Your worst enemy in college is your teammate and friend when you get to the NBA. Who would have thought it?
Gilbert Arenas
#35. When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.
Saadi
#36. We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy.
Michael Savage
#37. Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
Tobias Wolff
#38. Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
Mike Tyson
#39. Our poisoned hearts must be cured. And the most difficult battle to be won against the enemy in the future must be fought within ourselves, with an exceptional effort that will transform our appetite for hatred into a desire for justice.
Albert Camus
#40. He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.
Oscar Wilde
#41. Don't attempt to fight the enemy in your own strength. You will experience burnout, and you will fail. Don't even think about it! The key is to engage in spiritual warfare God's way. And that is by resting in him and fighting from victory, not for victory!
Pedro Okoro
#43. Most people are dependent on legal drugs but this is somehow not an obstacle to seeing an enemy in every underground addict.
Plamen Chetelyazov
#44. I turned to the guard. "Keep her here, Rodrick. Unless she comes up with a plan to destroy the remainder of the enemy. In which case you're to let her do it.
Mark Lawrence
#45. If you are not willing to serve God in the abundance that He has given you, then you will have to serve your enemy in hunger
Sunday Adelaja
#46. When you look at your enemy in the face and all you feel is love, then you have achieved acceptance.
Joan Ambu
#47. The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.
Tess Gerritsen
#48. Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. My first professional role was in 'Romeo and Juliet,' and I played Tybalt, who was Romeo's enemy, in a small production of that in the U.K.
Sean Bean
#50. The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.
Kelly Miller
#51. The multifaceted nature of the strong points of the enemy in this brutal warfare calls for nothing less than a global scale collaborative response that is stubbornly radical, yet humanely civil.
Ray Anyasi
#52. Petermann's staunchest enemy in Great Britain was Clements R. Markham of the Royal Geographical Society. Markham had come to regard Petermann as a charlatan and a windbag.
Hampton Sides
#53. If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
Bela Lugosi
#54. She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.
Frederick Buechner
#55. We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.
Cleobulus
#56. Although we had no hope of defeating the enemy in the battlefield, nevertheless, we fought back to keep the idea of liberation alive. From a conversation with Richard Stengel, January 13, 1993
Nelson Mandela
#57. The best time to stop a fight is before it starts.
The best vitamin for developing friends is B1.
The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
#59. Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself ... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.
Gloria Steinem
#60. Police, I learned over the years, are like soldiers, normally good-natured people, but part of a culture of obedience to orders and capable of brutal acts against anyone designated as "the enemy" - in this case, the antiwar movement.
Howard Zinn
#61. The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn't got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.
Bob Hope
#62. And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
Bret Harte
#63. The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.
Genghis Khan
#64. He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
Eddie Cantor
#65. Security was now a thing of the past though it took a conscious effort to remember it; with no enemy in all the world there was little but the force of habit in it.
Nevil Shute
#66. The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.
Mike Epps
#67. Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation.
Francois Hollande
#68. What good to conquer an enemy in battle, only to be vanquished by hunger or cold?
Dan Millman
#69. We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.
Peter Kuznick
#70. Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.
Ralph Peters
#71. The single biggest advantage of being completely surrounded is that it gives you the opportunity to attack the enemy in any direction you choose.
James A. Owen
#72. In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable not to stir forth, but rather to retreat, thus enticing the enemy in his turn; then, when part of his army has come out, we may deliver our attack with advantage.
Sun Tzu
#73. Listen to me instead of your financial manager: It's okay to spend money, to save it, to give it away, to worry over it. It's just money. Your only enemy in life is time. Do be miser with time: hoard it, treasure it, don't squander a single minute of it.
Cassandra King
#74. There's no enemy in the auditioning process. Everybody wants you to be the right person when you walk in the room. We're all just trying to make a soup here, and they're trying to figure out the right ingredients for the soup.
Michael Mosley
#75. Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
George Savile
#76. Never offend an enemy in a small way.
Gore Vidal
#77. Oil companies earned a permanent enemy in me when they messed with the electric car the first time around, and I think they continue to do a disservice in making it seem like fossil fuels are cheaper than they really are in terms of total cost.
Chris Paine
#78. It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.
George McGovern
#79. Just then Warren's breathing, which part of me was listening to with rapt attention, stopped. Adam heard it too, crouching as if there were an enemy in the room. Maybe there was. Death is an enemy, right?
Patricia Briggs
#80. Was mutual need enough to risk more lives trusting a calculated enemy in hopes of destroying a more powerful one?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#81. Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.
Peter Brook
#82. If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.
Agnes Varda
#83. In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy.
Tony Kushner
#84. Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the Nazis in a concentration camp, to take an extreme case ...
Noam Chomsky
#85. The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates
#86. The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict our country ever faced. Those that won this war did so in obscurity. Those that gave their lives in the cold war have never been properly honored.
Harry Reid
#87. Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#88. The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.
Henry David Thoreau
#89. It is by the Lord's stripes that we are healed, and it is through our own stripes that we, too, are given the authority for healing. In the place where the enemy wounds us, once we are healed, we are given the power to heal others.
Rick Joyner
#90. If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.
Fidel Castro
#91. Why,' said he, 'does not the emperor, who has devised so many clever and efficient modes of improving the art of war, organize a regiment of lawyers, judges and legal practitioners, sending them in the hottest fire the enemy could maintain, and using them to save better men?
Alexandre Dumas
#92. We are not the Church in failure, running out the back door while the devil kicks in the front door. We are the Church of Luke 10:19 that has authority over all the power of the enemy.
Harold R. Eberle
#93. He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.
John Owen
#94. Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have in our spiritual arsenal to stand against the world's greatest enemy, the one who presents himself as an angel of light [2 Corinthians 11:14].
Billy Graham
#95. My friend you must understand that time forks perpetually into countless futures. And in at least one of them I have become your enemy. Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
Adrian McKinty
#96. Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.
Bernard Cornwell
#97. Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.
Joan Of Arc
#98. If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am.
Fran Lebowitz
#99. I hope to show in the process that critical analysis can be fun, and in doing so help to demolish the myth that analysis is the enemy of enjoyment.
Terry Eagleton
#100. While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.
Douglas MacArthur
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