Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.

I never have a problem with the weight cut. My number one enemy is injuries because I train so hard.

A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.

Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.

Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.

Islamic extremism is the prime enemy of civil society and social peace, both in Italy and in Israel.

You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.

Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.

I get in my own head, and at the end of the day, I'm my biggest critic, and I'm my worst enemy, too.

The biggest enemy is doubt. If you don’t believe in what you are doing, you aren’t going to make it.

The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm

If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

I got deeply involved with the Trotskyists. I assumed simply that my enemy's enemies were my friends.

The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

I think my worst enemy was myself. It's like I've been in my own way more than anybody else has been.

My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

I feel that it's important our professionals have the tools to keep the enemy, to stop their attacks.

I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.

The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

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

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

I'm down for you, so ride with me. My enemies your enemies, Cause you ain't ever had a friend like me.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

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

You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.

Happiness is the enemy. It weakens you, puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

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