Quotes About Common Enemies

#1. I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

David Levithan

#2. Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

Voltaire

#3. Setbacks are common enemies of both achievers and people whose dream cut short. The difference is that the former persist against continual setbacks while the latter quit.

Assegid Habtewold

#4. A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing
articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.

Shirley Hazzard

#5. We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

Jerry Doyle

#6. Us women, no matter how crude we are with one another,we must always remember that we have two enemies in common."
The three of us look at each other confused, then back at Ms. Eleanor waiting for her to answer.
"Men," she sighs, still staring off. "And old age.

Chelsea Ballinger

#7. The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome.

Edward Gibbon

#8. I think the most fun I ever had was playing King Arthur in Spamalot on the West End.

Alan Dale

#9. common enemies make enemies become friends!

Eric Jerome Dickey

#10. The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.

John Lawson

#11. Drop your weapons once and they will dig you in to the grave forever.

Ameya Agrawal

#12. I can be a lazy dresser.

Michael Sheen

#13. We are a band of brothers. United in love for our common Savior, joined in his common cause of prayer for both friends and enemies, we find our affections kindled and our hearts warmed toward one another.

Megan Hill

#14. They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.

Suzanne Collins

#15. Think about it. When you die you'll be surrounded bu the people you killed. Who the hells goes around killing people they like? In the Afterdeath we'll be surrounded by our enemies.

Michael R. Fletcher

#16. I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as it seems only polite to do so. But at heart it's absurd; we should band together against the big common enemies.

Alain De Botton

#17. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

C.S. Lewis

#18. There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work together against their common enemies. That story again: Two radical terrorist groups managed to do what two American political parties cannot.

Jimmy Fallon

#19. Don't you think it's a bad sign that your best argument for your beau is that nothing has been proved in court?

Lish McBride

#20. You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

Paul Engle

#21. But the Butlerians turn fear into violence and panic into a weapon. By creating imaginary problems and raising the specter of nonexistent enemies, they transform common people into a wild herd that destroys everything they do not understand.

Brian Herbert

#22. I think business, government and unions have to work together, and the common enemies to the global economy. We're being beaten by the global economy, and we've got to unite together to win.

Stephen Pagliuca

#23. Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.

Barack Obama

#24. When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.

Max Horkheimer

#25. I'm not a wild and crazy person.

Jewel

#26. Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.

Jimmy Griffin

#27. Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.

Silvia Hartmann

#28. Despite his intent, tears sprang to his eyes, and he went into her embrace, both of them sobbing freely, like enemies joined by a common loss or lovers about to be parted. Or else souls who could not remember whether they were lovers or enemies and were weeping at their own confusion.

Clive Barker

#29. Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.

C.J. Cherryh

#30. It is normal to have enemies,
common to have acquaintances,
and unusual to have friends.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#31. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

Rob Sheffield

#32. Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

Roger L'Estrange

#33. Enemies may unite to eliminate a common threat, but never without a wary eye fixed on their ally.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#34. And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.

Ally Carter

#35. The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them common tools for common goals. Their goals are goals for all America - and their enemies are the enemies for progress. The two cannot be separated.

John F. Kennedy

#36. Some days are so difficult that if we didn't let wine steal our wits, how would we sleep?

Dean Koontz

#37. Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

Bernard Berenson

#38. One of those middle-aged mediocrities so common in London clubs who have no enemies, but are thoroughly disliked by their friends;

Oscar Wilde

#39. The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

Honore De Balzac

#40. One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

Ken Robinson

#41. Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

Ann Voskamp

#42. Women find men attractive who are aggressive ... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children.

Bryan Callen

#43. A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

Aristotle.