Time Enemy Quotes

#1. You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

Maxwell Perkins

#2. Each time I stopped I stripped myself of something vitally important. I was, becoming my own enemy! And I can't tell you how it hurt me when I found that out. What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#3. By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.

John Byng

#4. The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#5. My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.

Otto Skorzeny

#6. We are our best friend and worst enemy we wil ever fight with. Time is our enemy, but how can we fight even when time will wipe us out?

Debasish Mridha

#7. When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

George Polya

#8. When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.

Jane Fonda

#9. The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

Al Gore

#10. That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail
but there was so much of it; you killed an hour, but what good did that do when there were thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions more hours just waiting to take its place?

K.J. Parker

#11. I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

Anita Diamant

#12. Time is my greatest enemy.

Evita Peron

#13. I'm not so Pro-Israel'I'm Pro-Africa. Africa's greatest enemy of all time is the Arab Muslim Empire'they enslaved us for one thousand years and have committed untold atrocities and genocides against the East African people.

Kola Boof

#14. It was a strategic victory as bloodless for the defeated as for the victor-and the less men slain on the other side, the more potential adherents and recruits for Caesar. Despite the substitution of manoeuvre for direct assaults upon his enemy the campaign had cost him only six weeks of his time.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#15. We are almost men, not quite warriors, and on some fateful day we meet an enemy for the first time and we hear the chants of battle, the threatening clash of blades on shields, and we begin to learn that the poets are wrong and that the proud songs lie.

Bernard Cornwell

#16. If you have to fight an enemy at a critical point in time, and you have an ally who happens to be a dictator, you don't say: Let's stop fighting right now, because you're not a democrat. That would be ridiculous.

Natan Sharansky

#17. If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them enjoy the hope for a short time.

Ernst Rohm

#18. Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

Victor Davis Hanson

#19. Silence isn't the enemy. It can bring comfort and clarity and validation. It's a reminder of time for what it is ... presence.

Kim Holden

#20. We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#21. The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

#22. The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble ... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.

Garry Kasparov

#23. Time is the enemy of freedom.

Andy Hargreaves

#24. Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy ...

Winifred Holtby

#25. If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

Elizabeth Warren

#26. Doors and corners are always dangerous, because you're moving into something without being sure what's there. By the time you see the enemy, you're exposed to them." "Sir?" Havelock

James S.A. Corey

#27. Now is not the time for making new enemies.

Voltaire

#28. One enemy at the time.

Sarah Dunant

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Time would be my friend, I told myself.
Yet time, I knew even then, was my enemy.

Robin Maxwell

#32. To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Thomas Paine

#33. My only enemy is time.

Charlie Chaplin

#34. Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney J. Harris

#35. Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.

David Foster

#36. The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

C.S. Lewis

#37. Time is a mother's enemy.

Anita Diamant

#38. Remember, men. it is better to wound than to slay, since it takes time to carry an injured man to the rear and sometimes requires two of the enemy rather than one.

John Jakes

#39. If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?

Emil M. Cioran

#40. Quality takes time and reduces quantity, so it makes you, in a sense, less efficient. The efficiency-optimized organization recognizes quality as its enemy. That's why many corporate Quality Programs are really Quality Reduction Programs in disguise.

Tom DeMarco

#41. Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping.

Joshua L. Liebman

#42. 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

#43. He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy.

Albert Camus

#44. There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last

Edward Abbey

#45. There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.

Joan Baez

#46. That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another's hopes and plans.

Napoleon Hill

#47. Time is denial's mortal enemy and is always victorious against it.

Chris Dietzel

#48. I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

John Knowles

#49. Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Leon Uris

#50. Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.

Ian Fleming

#51. Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

John Dryden

#52. The enemy of memory isn't time; it's other memories.

David Eagleman

#53. Time is one terrible enemy.

EXO Books

#54. Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.

Brigham Young

#55. We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

Dan Hawkins

#56. The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.

Robert Breault

#57. In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Daniel Boone

#58. Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#59. One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

E.B. White

#60. It's an enemy that I can't allow to wound me a second time. It's already done enough damage: most of it hidden far from the surface.

Andrea Pirlo

#61. The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.

Leon Panetta

#62. In faith, I'm a believer in the do's - you know, love your neighbor, love your enemy. I don't spend a lot of time thinking on the don'ts 'cause I can't get the do's right.

John Kasich

#63. The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric of "equal time." But mistake it not.

Stephen Jay Gould

#64. Ethan thought he understood how a propaganda-stuffed young soldier must feel the first time in combat, stumbling by some sudden chance over his enemy's human face. He had gloried for a red moment in his power to break her. Now he stood foolishly with the pieces in his hands. Not at all heroic.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#65. [Once war is declared, he will not waste precious time in waiting for reinforcements, nor will he return his army back for fresh supplies, but crosses the enemy's frontier without delay.

Sun Tzu

#66. Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.

Alice Schroeder

#67. The barber in his shop, warmed by a good stove, was shaving a customer and casting from time to time a look towards this enemy, this frozen and brazen gamin, who had both hands in his pockets, but his wits evidently out of their sheath.

Victor Hugo

#68. You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy
is dead. Looks like we'll have to go over the lesson again the next time
I see you - which will be soon.
Love, D.

Richelle Mead

#69. The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

John Calvin

#70. They say time heals all, But time is our only enemy; breathe deep and find strength to smile tonight, for the morning may never come

Michael Biondi

#71. The old saying is: 'Time off is a wrestler's worst enemy.'

Ric Flair

#72. We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.

Nikolai Bukharin

#73. Money has a way of trumping even the gravest of enemies over time.

Jim Oberweis

#74. We're at war.
On the verge of an apocalypse filled with monsters and torture in a nightmare world.
And I'm standing here, a moonstruck teenager pining for an enemy soldier. What am I, crazy?
This time, I'm the first to turn away.

Susan Ee

#75. Time is your only enemy, it disappears very quickly and never gives you a second chance.

Steve Douglas

#76. Time will be your friend or your enemy; it will promote you or expose you.

Jeff Olson

#77. When boys played "guerrilla warfare," which was their version of cowboys and Indians, the enemy side would have thorns glued onto their noses and say "hello" all the time.

Jung Chang

#78. Many times we are our worst enemy. If we could learn to conquer ourselves, then we will have a much easier time overcoming the obstacles that are in front of us.

Stephan Labossiere

#79. We're in a declared war, but unless were clear about who the enemy is, we'll waste our time fighting enemies that aren't enemies at all. There's only one enemy and no matter what people do, say or react people are never the enemy. The enemy is our only enemy..

John Wimber

#80. As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.

Watchman Nee

#81. We somehow forget that we can choose whether to make time an enemy or an ally.

Deepak Chopra

#82. Patience is the gift of possibility. Time is merely an illusion. People lack patience, which is why time becomes their enemy.

Lionel Suggs

#83. We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.

Bill Nelson

#84. Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

Tobias Wolff

#85. You shall forget that I am part of an enemy army, I shall forget that you are a woman who spends much of her time working out how to subvert that army, and we shall just . . . be two people?

Jojo Moyes

#86. It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Margaret Thatcher

#87. When you have the Holy Spirit living inside of you, you possess a resource that can give you abundant life through the longest siege of the enemy. The enemy can camp at your doorstep for an indefinite period of time and it won't matter to you. The Holy Spirit is your indwelling source of

David Jeremiah

#88. Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war ... war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.

George Orwell

#89. 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

#90. Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#91. When two wise men are blaming one another,
then time has come for you to be the third one.

Toba Beta

#92. She'd heard theories in her time regarding the number-one enemy of everything, ranging from Osama bin Laden to premarital sex. The dust theory she liked.

Barbara Kingsolver

#93. The voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

Genesis P-Orridge

#94. When did we get too old for this, Daeng? What happened to those days when we were somersaulting through the air with a cutlass in each hand taking out the enemy twenty at a time?"

"I don't think that was us, Love. That was Bruce Lee.

Colin Cotterill

#95. There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.

Brian Van Reet

#96. The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.
It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for
heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not
the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we
drink in every night.

John Piper

#97. Time, it seemed, was not our enemy after all. It was just air and space and hours. Anything worth having was able to withstand it.

Courtney Cole

#98. The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened.

Frank Church

#99. I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the Enemy. The

C.S. Lewis

#100. Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement.

Michael Dolan