Enemy Is Behind Us Quotes

#1. The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!

Douglas MacArthur

#2. There are so many ways to betray someone.
You can whisper behind his back.
You can deceive him on purpose.
You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you.
You can break a promise.
The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?

Jodi Picoult

#3. Behind your enemy's smile lies treachery. Show him that behind yours lies steel. Fail to do so, and you only make him bolder.

C.L. Wilson

#4. The heretic is the one who speaks against the community from a place within its territory. He is the enemy within. The heathen, by contrast, is safely behind the walls, excluded by his own invincible arrogance.

Roger Scruton

#5. Music is unique because you can get behind enemy lines a little bit, get into people's houses and into their heads, on their stereos, and win hearts and minds.

Conor Oberst

#6. If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.

Sun Tzu

#7. You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.

Daniel Craig

#8. Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

Ardant Du Picq

#9. It's war. Don't leave anything behind for your enemy to use. Scorch the earth, kill the cattle, foul the water.

Lesley Livingston

#10. You can't win a war sitting behind a wall and hoping the enemy decides to leave.

Jim Butcher

#11. 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

#12. Society has always been the free man's greatest enemy. And the free man has been society's greatest friend. How did society treat Jesus, Socrates, Galileo, or Martin Luther King? Yet look what they have left behind.

Laurence Boldt

#13. Prayer is how we isolate the real problems. And prayer is how we get up behind those problems and attack them at the roots. It's how we isolate the real enemy. It's how we keep him on his heels and off our man.

Priscilla Shirer

#14. The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.

Bianca Scardoni

#15. The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.

Mark Helprin

#16. I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

Conor Oberst

#17. Never leave an enemy behind, or it will rise again to fly at your throat !

Shaka

#18. If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#19. What do you do when you're wound up?' she asked. 'Do you play that drum?'. 'No,' said the child. 'We used to dance.' 'But now we walk,' said the father. 'And behind us an enemy walks faster.' 'That's life,' said Euterpe.

Russell Hoban

#20. It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. Time, the cradle of hope ... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

#22. 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

#23. The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you

Winston Churchill

#24. The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

Dan Quisenberry

#26. The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

Alfred De Musset

#27. In the sea you've got to be constantly sort of alert. It's worse in the sea [than anywhere else in the animal kingdom]. In the sea you've got an enemy behind every rock.

Karl Pilkington

#28. Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.

Bill Shuster

#29. Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.

Charles M. Schulz

#30. The allure is a passage behind the parapet of a castle wall. Great for defense when the enemy is approaching. You know you're safe on the allure." She tucks her head beneath my chin, twining her hand with mine. "Like we're safe with each other.

Nina Lane

#31. In their dreams they touch, they intertwine, it's more like a collision, and that is the end of flying. They fall to earth, fouled parachutists, botched and cindery angels, love streaming out behind them like torn silk. Enemy groundfire comes up to meet them.

Margaret Atwood

#32. People want everything to come out of a drive thru window. They want it instant and they want it fast. I succumb to that, we all succumb to that. We're in it. That's the culture. So the enemy, the powers that be, the manipulators behind the scenes play to our natural weaknesses.

Alex Jones