Top 100 Quotes About Enemy
#1. Blessed the one who, exalted by love, has become a city founded upon a mountain, from which the enemy, when he saw it, withdrew in fear, trembling at its security in the Lord.
Ephrem The Syrian
#2. 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
#3. Was mutual need enough to risk more lives trusting a calculated enemy in hopes of destroying a more powerful one?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#4. Harry! Don't you see? Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back! Voldemort
J.K. Rowling
#5. The prophet Micah preached to his downtrodden people: Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen [true, not to be minimized], I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light. (7:8 NIV)
Louie Giglio
#8. I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it.
Antonio Banderas
#9. Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy - love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.
Ruta Sepetys
#10. Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.
John Arbuthnot
#11. I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.
Anson Mount
#12. Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
Sun Tzu
#13. 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
#14. Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.
William B. Ogden
#15. But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I'd feel myself a failure.
Johnston McCulley
#16. Time would be my friend, I told myself.
Yet time, I knew even then, was my enemy.
Robin Maxwell
#17. The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.
Gautama Buddha
#19. I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can be the enemy sometimes. Some songs don't need to be told perfectly. Life is messy and has loose ends, and sometimes I think the songs should reflect that.
Patterson Hood
#20. It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible?
Ford Madox Ford
#21. The greatest enemy to the movement of Jesus Christ is Christianity.
Erwin McManus
#22. Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.
Joe Slovo
#24. Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.
Sun Tzu
#25. She made a suck-bad prisoner of war wanting to sleep with the enemy.' (Abbie)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#26. What a spineless thing I must be not to have one enemy!
L.M. Montgomery
#27. Your enemy is most humbled when he finds out that the person that he looks up to ... looks up to you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#28. He'd know that I think that ... well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems.
Meg Cabot
#29. In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him: in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. Already
George Orwell
#30. Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.
Bill Shuster
#31. We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
Chief Seattle
#32. We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.
Stephen Covey
#33. Our days are exactly the same. Shoot at the enemy. Hit some civilians. Apologize. Reload your rifle. Shoot again.
David Christopher Perez
#34. A mn ages hs enemy because he hates his own hate. He says to himself: I hate him not because he's my enemy, not because he hates me, but because he arouses me to hate.
Elie Wiesel
#35. You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.
Thomas E. Mann
#37. Scars are simply modern battle wounds. Sometimes the enemy happens to be inside us.
Andrew Grey
#38. So in a sense, that little war in the Levant had a horrendous effect in terms of the stability of countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, over the long term. Because once again, it proved to Muslims that their governments couldn't protect them and would side with the enemy.
Michael Scheuer
#39. God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We do not ask favors or indulgence but ask that, if You will, use us as Your instrument for the right and an aid in returning peace to the world.
Robert Lee Wolverton
#41. I believe that it is important for us to understand the reason why the enemy attacks the womb because it is then that we will have a more accurate way to pray against it and overcome it.
Theresa Pecku-Laryea
#42. It's right to learn, even from the enemy.
Ovid
#43. When the enemy of my enemy is willing to use plasma weapons inside a hotel, I think I can do better than stupid aphorisms, General.
-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn
Howard Tayler
#44. Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.
Victoria Moran
#45. Because Rakkim knew the seduction of hiding in plain sight. The singular pleasure of blending into the background, of setting the table in the house of the enemy and watching him eat dinner.
Robert Ferrigno
#47. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
Sun Tzu
#48. Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.
Euripides
#49. Fear could break a line faster than any enemy charge.
Sarah J. Maas
#52. The probability of direct confrontation increases with the aggressiveness of the enemy. So, rather than try to outbid the enemy with complicated schemes, one should, on the contrary, try to outbid him in simplicity
Carl Von Clausewitz
#53. Atheists are not the enemy; the real enemy knows Jesus Christ. Satan and all false prophets know very well that Jesus came from heaven, but still reject him. Matthew 10:36
Felix Wantang
#54. If the enemy is a significant part of your body, then how do you destroy it without killing yourself?
Toba Beta
#55. Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.
Attila The Hun
#56. I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy.
-white oleander
Janet Fitch
#57. Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.
Melina Marchetta
#58. It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
Chris Kyle
#59. But all should know that the people's participation in the elections will take the country forward ... an election full of excitement will be a major blow to the enemy.
Ali Khamenei
#60. John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world.
George Eliot
#61. Before her lay the enemy. The only end guaranteed if she forgot that fact? Death - or worse. Strangely enough, approval from those who don't even bother to introduce themselves before commenting on my shortcomings ... tends not to make much of an impression on me.
Danielle Monsch
#62. Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.
John F. Kennedy
#63. Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
Dogen
#64. Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.
Michael Rapaport
#66. Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.
Sun Tzu
#67. In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
Brian Mulroney
#68. Embrace all emotions: sadness, happiness, sorrow, hate, love, prejudice, fear; they are weapons against our greatest enemy: indifference.
Dave Matthes
#69. Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.
Giulio Douhet
#71. 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
#72. You can transform an enemy to friend by love and kind action.
Debasish Mridha
#74. While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.
Henry David Thoreau
#75. The writer is an infantryman. He knows that progress is measured in yards of dirt extracted from the enemy one day, one hour, one minute at a time and paid for in blood. The artist wears combat boots.
Steven Pressfield
#77. Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, all the times you can, for as long as ever you can. Our own feelings of helplessness are our own worst enemy.
Mia Farrow
#78. From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
Jones Very
#79. Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.
William Nicholson
#80. Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.
Stefan Molyneux
#81. Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#83. The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.
William Faulkner
#84. I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
Gary Coleman
#85. Experience had taught me it's better to be wary and feel ridiculous than to get conked on the head, or abducted, or whatever the enemy plan of the day might be.
Charlaine Harris
#86. At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.
John Stott
#87. Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money to make sure that everyone hears this song a certain number of times a day - that feels like the opposite of folk music.
Will Sheff
#88. Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.
Ellen G. White
#90. Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.
Stephen Covey
#91. In the midst of your enemies, one should not lose his morality. Morality is what separates us from our enemy. Morals keep us from losing ourselves to our situations.
Trenton Quinn
#93. We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.
Bertrand Russell
#94. God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!
Paula White
#95. Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child.
Edward O. Wilson
#96. The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.
Adolf Hitler
#97. Politics is the enemy of a sound economic entity, he mused. New laws, harsher tax rates, meddling . . . and now this.
Philip K. Dick
#98. Do not give the terrorists, the enemy combatants, the people who blow up folks at weddings, who fly airplanes into the twin towers, the ability to sue our own troops all over the country for any and everything.
Lindsey Graham
#99. Sun Tzu said: We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) Entangling ground; (3) Temporizing ground; (4) Narrow passes; (5) Precipitous heights; (6) Positions at a great distance from the enemy.
Sun Tzu
#100. You will know who the enemy is intimidated by because they're the ones he targets and keeps beating down.
Donna Lynn Hope
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