Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.

The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in.

He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

Mister Straw hat is going to be an enemy of mine but even a bond of enmity is still a bond.-Trafalgar Law

Nothing unites a group more than a common enemy, be it the Soviet Union or Nasty Nick from 'Big Brother.'

The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.

Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.

The enemy's plan is to take away God's glory. God's plan is to have as much glory shown through your life.

Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.

I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.

As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

I'm not wanting to make carbs the enemy - because it's really hard to keep carbs out of your life forever.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes.

Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]

When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.

Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.

No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]

She is by my side, as my sister, but he is my soul.He is my enemy, my tormentor, my demon.He is my beloved.

Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.

I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

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