Top 83 Quotes About Nemesis
#1. In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
Nemesis will have her dues,
And all our struggles and our toils
Tighter wind the giant coils.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'
Brian Aldiss
#3. We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines)
Olivier A. Blanchard
#5. There is no such thing as a historical fatality; there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when action was still possible.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#6. The limit is the sky, and I live on cloud. And I recognize my nemesis gon try, to put a finish in my shine. But pussy we'll hurt you, life in the power circle.
Kendrick Lamar
#7. And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other.
"Why didn't you just ... fade?" Gaia demanded plaintively.
"You hit me," Nemesis said. It was a little boy's voice coming from Caine's mouth. "And that's not okay.
Michael Grant
#8. The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
Jack Nicklaus
#9. I saw darkness in her beauty, and she saw beauty in my darkness. Yin and yang. Black and white. Beauty and scars; fury and forgiveness. She should've been my nemesis, but in her, I found something I didn't know I was looking for.
Keri Lake
#10. Restlessness is my nemesis/ It's hard to just chill and sit still
Mos Def
#11. I should have known better, of course. Whenever I'm feeling up to the mark and congratulating myself, some fearful fate trips me headlong, and I find myself haring for cover with my guts churning and Nemesis in full cry after me.
George MacDonald Fraser
#12. He gave them descriptive names that wouldn't scare people. It wouldn't do to call them Nemesis or Thor or Grond. So instead it was Potatohead, Mr. Spinny, Acorn, Peach Pit, Scoop, Big Boy, and Kidney Bean.
Neal Stephenson
#13. And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!
William Watson
#14. It's not easy being number two. As a marketer, you have limited choices - you can pretend you're not defined by the market leader, or, you can embrace your position and go directly after your nemesis.
John Battelle
#15. Never sleep in a small tent with your nemesis.
Tom Chappell
#16. Many of us spend our early years in unconscious flight from our true purpose, only to run smack into it at last, like a fleeing movie heroine who backs around a corner - we know what comes next - and turns abruptly to find herself face to face with her nemesis, or, more often, her deliverance.
Carey Harrison
#17. Let's be real. Like I would date someone who didn't go out of their way to be my nemesis." - Shane Carver (The Carver's Magic)
B.L. Brooklyn
#18. I feel exposed. The camera is my nemesis. Right up there with mirrors.
Donna Cooner
#19. Kalaj would say, "I've got the eyes of a lynx, the memory of an elephant, the instincts of a wolf ... "
" ... and the brain of a tapir," would interrupt his nemesis, the Algerian.
Andre Aciman
#20. Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places ... gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.
Gay Talese
#21. Are you the cursed kid Nemesis mentioned?" Leo asked. "But you're a girl."
"You're a girl," said the girl.
"Excuse me?
Rick Riordan
#22. As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, truest love can turn into truest nemesis.
Nikhil Kushwaha
#23. If you were casting the part of the evil scientist who would prove the Caped Crusader's deadliest nemesis, you'd likely glance at the headshot of German-born psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham, with his owl-like glasses and severe Prussian features, and think, "Nah, too on-the-nose.
Glen Weldon
#24. Maybe to his nemesis, the world was a stage, reality was a fraud, and all was artifice. How
Dean Koontz
#26. No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.
Philip K. Dick
#27. I think the world is ready for people of color to take on more heroic and leading roles, and not always be the sidekick, the nemesis or any sort of stereotype of what a person of color can play typically in a Hollywood picture.
Jessica Alba
#28. There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.
Wallace Stegner
#29. My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.
Jennifer O'Neill
#30. You want to be a superhero still, Grace? Well, every hero has a nemesis. And I'm yours.
Bree Despain
#32. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
Erica Jong
#33. To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
Linus Torvalds
#34. And the storm was my nemesis, my goddess, my salvation
Amy Lane
#35. There's the good girl leading a charmed life who secretly covets to be the rare and elusive femme fatale and the femme fatale who yearns to be good and then there is their nemesis - men who dream and desire both.
Donna Lynn Hope
#37. Imagine having a well-cultivated pirate crew and established career as the terror of the seas, only to have some bloody ten-year-old show up claiming he's the spirit of youth and joy and your unholy nemesis, Oh, and he's rallied a bunch of other little boys to come and kill you.
Austin Chant
#38. If you'll curtail your literary pursuits a moment I'll introduce you to my counterpart and Nemesis; I would be trite and say, 'to my better half,' but I think that phrase indicates some kind of basically equal division, don't you?
Ken Kesey
#39. Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.
Pittacus Of Mytilene
#40. I imagined, too. And so imagination became my nemesis; my mind created monsters out of nothing.
Samantha Shannon
#41. Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I was so motivated and thought that if I did I wouldn't succeed.
Marina And The Diamonds
#42. He's [Captain Cold] not the big bad, but he's certainly playing a pretty big role. Especially in the early part of the season, he's Barry's main nemesis. There is a very definitive big bad in Season 1 that will become apparent as you watch the show. How's that for saying nothing?
Andrew Kreisberg
#43. The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#44. He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.
Terry Pratchett
#45. He may well be my nemesis. And my antithesis! How about that?
Laura Buzo
#46. You will always be the outsider, Nemesis had told him, the seventh wheel. You will not find a place among your brethren.
Rick Riordan
#47. Well, being 6' 5', pull-ups are my nemesis. I have really long arms so I have to do twice the work of someone with short arms to get the weight up there.
Joe Manganiello
#48. That's your evidence? Flimsy. Maybe he secretly fights crime and he's texting infuriating riddles to his nemesis," suggested Karou.
"Yes, I'm sure that's it. Thank you.
Laini Taylor
#49. The goddess Nemesis, Bertol Grimmer's favourite motif after the War. The goddess of revenge.
Jo Nesbo
#50. False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is.
Ymatruz
#51. I am called Nemesis in both Greek and Roman. I do not change, because revenge is universal.
Rick Riordan
#52. To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.
William Quan Judge
#53. The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#54. The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.
David Lyons
#55. Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.
Sam Tanenhaus
#56. Some day you will have a nemesis,' Madame warned bitterly. 'It's not easy, you know. Someone who has the ability to do everything you wish you could, but with greater ease, style, success.
Kathleen Tessaro
#57. I think Jo Kwon is my nemesis, because he looks like me.
Jay Park
#58. What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.
Mason Cooley
#59. I recognised uneasily the hand of what I sometimes thought to be my personal nemesis, the spirit of farce.
William Golding
#60. It is hard because I love Cornettos, so that will always be a weakness, and I've realised that bread is my nemesis. I believe bread has been sent to destroy me to the core.
James Corden
#61. The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is
not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth.
Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great
a little understood
thing.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#62. I let the curtains fall back against the glass, effectively blocking the view of my nemesis standing there beneath the twinkle lights, looking way too hot in his charcoal-colored suit.
It would be so much easier to hate him if he didn't look so good. And I want to hate him; I really do.
Kristi Cook
#63. Caldwell speaks in the dry, inflectionless tone of a lecturer, but her expression hardens as she stares down at the thing that is both her nemesis and the focal point of her waking life. "If
M.R. Carey
#64. Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.
Mary Midgley
#65. We therefore have a good chance of overcoming the problem of resource scarcity. The real nemesis of the modern economy is ecological collapse. Both scientific progress and economic growth take place within a brittle biosphere, and as they gather steam, so the shock waves destabilise the ecology. In
Yuval Noah Harari
#66. Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get rid of his nemesis; then there's no story.
Bill Maher
#67. Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.
David Agus
#68. And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.
Edgar Pangborn
#70. The best friend of a blind Us is a nemesis Us - Them. Nothing unites Us like a collectively hated anti-Us, and the blind tribe is usually defined almost as much by hating the dogma of Them as it is by abiding by the dogma of Us. Whatever
Tim Urban
#71. Hello, Darkness," Caine said.
Gaia's face fell. Her bloody, feral grin faded to be replaced by lips drawn right with fear. Her killer blue eyes widened as she looked at Caine who was no longer Caine.
"Nemesis," Gaia said.
Michael Grant
#73. Your pussy taste like night."
"It's enchanted.
Misty Kayn
#74. Do I seem like a fool to you?"
"Peep!"
"Is that a yes?
Misty Kayn
#75. Just because it looks like a leprechaun and talks like a leprechaun, it doesn't mean it can't act like the little fucking demon it is.
N.L. Gervasio
#77. It's been fifteen years since I've killed a man. At least a man against whom I held a grudge.
L.J. Martin
#78. I haven't dated Clancy - God help me if I do - but he's tipping my all-men-are-jackasses theory completely over the edge of the scale. To add insult to injury, he looks like the damn cover of a romance novel. I hate those covers.
N.L. Gervasio
#79. Some might call us a monstrous pair, and they would be right. Tyrus and I were both scorpions in our way, dangerous creatures crossing the most treacherous of rivers together. Together we might sting - but we also would float.
S.J. Kincaid
#80. A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person you've been created for.
S.J. Kincaid
#81. Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.
Tim McGraw
#82. Perhaps scorpions were the only ones who could save each other.
Whatever lay ahead, it would always be the two of us above the rest of the universe, and woe to any who dared step in out path.
S.J. Kincaid
#83. The goddess shrugged. 'One of my sons recently traded an eye for the ability to make a real difference in the world.
Rick Riordan
