Quotes about enemies
Virchand Gandhi -
May peace rule the universe may peace rule in kingdoms and empires may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
People can poison people people can also promote people. People can push people up people can also pull people down. Don’t just follow people cheerfully follow people carefully!
Criss Jami - Healology
Friends ask you questions enemies question you.
Matshona Dhliwayo -
Love fights with a kiss hate fights with a fist.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a weight that can push you hard. Don't agree to accept what critics say be prepared to silence them by doing what they think you can't do!
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend march swiftly to places where you are not expected.
George Orwell - 1984
We do not merely destroy our enemies we change them.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
An honourable man is fair even to his enemies a dishonourable man is unfair even to his friends!
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Any idiot or imbecile can easily make enemies the important and the hard thing is to make friends easily and keep them as friends always!
Baltasar Gracián - The Art of Worldly Wisdom
The most and best of us depend on others we have to live either among friends or among enemies.
Salman Al Odah -
It is not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the universe many are not aware of your existance!
Oscar Wilde -
Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.
Atom Tate -
Hell is a place reserved for people who want their enemies to rot in Hell for sinning against them. Heaven is a place of amnesty where the trespassers have forgiven their trespassers.
Debasish Mridha M.D. -
With weapons we can kill our enemies with love and forgiveness we can win them.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Bad guys have only one enemy: The Universe but the good guys have two enemies: The universe and the bad guys!
Donna Lynn Hope -
At least with zombies I know my enemy and I know what to do: Aim and shoot. It's not so easy with people.
Cristian L. Martinez -
Never get close to your enemies, you might start liking them.
Elizabeth I -
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
Voltaire -
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)
Eminem -
If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.
Emilie Autumn -
I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.
Derek Landy - Death Bringer
That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside.""Or give them a chance to redeem themselves.
Cormac McCarthy - No Country for Old Men
I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.
Chris Bradford - The Way of the Dragon
In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.
Thomas Jefferson -
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Sherrilyn Kenyon - Born of Shadows
Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good as any of them. I don't care who they are. Better in fact. In our world, Dagans are royalty and you, my son, are a prince.
Stephen King - Pet Sematary
A man who lies about beer makes enemies
William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.
Henry David Thoreau -
My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.
Victor Hugo - Choses vues 1849-1885
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.
Maria Callas -
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.
Eoin Colfer - The Wish List
Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense.
Terrance Dicks - Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
The Master: The cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.
Zooey Deschanel -
one day my best friend said to me 'Jess, you rock a lot of polka dots' and that was the deal breaker, now we're mortal enemies
John Lescroart - A Plague of Secrets
The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Book of Wisdom
Keep quiet and the enemy will reveal himself.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
Don’t just shun them; don’t kill them! Don’t curse them; don’t harm them! Pray for them, for they all a good part of the story; get understanding, and disarm them with wit and wisdom!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don’t just shun them; don’t kill them! Don’t curse them; don’t harm them! Pray for them, for they are a good part of the story, both for the good and for the bed; get understanding, and disarm the armed who seems to be a threat with wit and wisdom!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don’t just shun them; don’t kill them! Don’t curse them; don’t harm them! Pray for them, for they are a good part of the story, both for the good and for the bad; get understanding, and disarm the armed who seems to be a threat with wit and wisdom! Life is not a one day journey, so be be careful!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don’t just shun them; don’t kill them! Don’t curse them; don’t harm them! Pray for them, for they are a good part of the story, both for the good and for the bad; get understanding, and disarm the armed who seems to be a threat with wit and wisdom! Life is not a one day journey, so be careful!
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard
There had been no enemies, just one single adversary, herself; her future had been killed by her own imprudence, by the reckless Salina pride; and now, just at the moment when her memories had come alive again after so many years, she found herself even without the solace of being able to blame her own unhappiness on others, a solace which is the last protective device of the desperate.
Robin Sacredfire -
Most people believe that sharing the same flesh and blood, the same basic DNA structure, makes them your family. How sad that is. Because, you see, as a spiritual person, I believe you must deserve a family, not just own it. If those that are my family, don't behave as such, they are not my family. If I have chosen them before I was born, I have been betrayed. I owe them nothing, in this or the many lives to come. In fact, if they betray me in this life, they will return as my enemies in the nex
Fightium -
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and your family even closer because one of them is a backstabber.
Fightium -
Keep your friends close, your enemies close and your family damn close because one of them is a backstabber
Marie Lu - The Midnight Star
Watch your back, little wolf, they say. Enemies arise from unexpected places.
Marie Lu - The Midnight Star
It will be impossible to catch all the rats, my love,” he says. His hand brushes against mine. “Sooner or later, one will squeeze through the cracks. You need to be more careful.
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
Thomas Edison -
If you want to succeed, get some enemies.
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool.
Moosa Rahat -
Bury your enemies with success.
Christina Engela -
Disagreeing with someone does not mean that they have to be enemies or opponents.
Rainbow Rowell - Carry On
I was eleven years old, and I’d lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you.” “It made us roommates,” he says. I shake my head. “We were always more.” “We were enemies.”“You were the centre of my universe,” I say. “Everything else spun around you.
V.E. Schwab - A Gathering of Shadows
Ah, there you are, Bard,” came a familiar voice, and she turned to see Alucard striding over.“Saints, is that a dress you’re in? The crew will never believe it.”“You’ve got to be kidding me,” growled Kell.
Steven Strogatz -
...nothing cements a friendship like hating the same person.
Raymond E. Feist - Honored Enemy
Old enemies must be friends when a greater evil looms.
G.K. Chesterton -
I suppose you can guess the whole story now? After all, it's a primitive story. A man had two enemies. He was a wise man. And so he discovered that two enemies are better than one.
Raymond E. Feist - Honored Enemy
Tragic to kill a friend in battle by mistake when there are so many enemies to go around.
Joel Osteen -
God can make your enemies your footstool.
Shannon L. Alder -
Have you ever considered that you shouldn't pray for God to deliver you from your enemies, rather deliver you from yourself so you can not hate them?
Quil Carter - The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 2
I was the Reaper and he was the Ghost, and his soul was long overdue for collection
Bianca Scardoni - Inception
One misstep was all it took, and it all came crashing down. And they were right there waiting for it—eager and ready to bury me in the wreckage.
Manasa Rao -
Screw friendship. I need more enemies. At least they admit they don't like you.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom
The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview
Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival
Sandra M. Michelle - Shake It Off: Neutralizing the Venom of Poisonous People
The reason people will attack you never really has anything to do with you. It stems from their OWN evil thoughts that they entertain and from wanting and not getting their way.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!
Sunday Adelaja -
Do not waste time trying to deal with your enemies.
Bohdi Sanders - Defensive Living: The Other Side of Self-Defense
Don't make the mistake of underestimating your enemies.
Sunday Adelaja -
There are benefits in confrontation. Even though we don’t like it most of the time, but people who obey this demand of life, live in peace better than the others. They avoid conflict and fights, better than others. They are able to identify their friends and enemies faster than others.
Sunday Adelaja -
It is important to give, not only to those closer to us, also to our enemies.
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
...dangers, to Francisco, were merely opportunities for another brilliant performance; there were no battles he could lose, no enemies to beat him.
Kamini Arichandran -
Focus on no enemies, liberate armies of truth— give berth to your worldview.
Anne Frank -
...if I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days.
Paul Watzlawick - or Psychotherapy & "Reality"
The ideological premise, however, "can" not be defective; it is sacrosanct. ... Whatever does not seem right, whatever does not fit, must be explained by something wrong outside of the ideology; for its perfection is beyond all doubt. In (t)his way the ideology immunizes itself by offering more and more hair-splitting accusations. Betrayal and the dark powers of inner and outer enemies lie in wait everywhere. Theories about conspiracies develop and conveniently hide the absurdity of the premise,
Amit Abraham -
Give a smile to your enemies and they will go mad wondering what you are plotting against them.
Charles Mackay -
You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.
Robert J. Braathe -
You want to take out an enemy? Ignore the things they write, the things they do, the things they say behind your back. Nothing will shut up rumors and innuendo more than to ignore them and diffuse them with silence.
Orhan Pamuk -
I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on...." - Conversations with Yahya Kemal
Assegid Habtewold - The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
When you stop worrying about your shortcomings, you deny your enemies, rivals, and/or competitors lethal weapons they may use to attack and defeat you.
A.J. Darkholme - Rise of the Morningstar
We must always be careful never to make more enemies than we could handle if they were all to attack at once.
Kate Elliott - Traitors' Gate
Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves?... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.
S.A. McAuley - One Breath One Bullet
Armise and I had met through the scope of our rifles and sometimes I wondered if that was also where we'd end.
eeton101 -
It is better to have live followers,then dead enemies.
Bruce Crown - Forlorn Passions
First, our enemies were the natives, then they were the Nazis, then after a while it was the communists. Finally, at the pinnacle of what we’re calling civilization, our enemies are the Islamic terrorists. Our enemies seem to change over the course of history along with our ways of fighting them. But what hasn't changed is government profit; politicians and leaders seem to always be getting richer by the blood of our soldiers. Makes you wonder who the real enemy has been all this time.
John Green - Paper Towns
I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies - Q
John Yang aka Private83 -
The most satisfying win over your enemies is to win them in life.
Rawi Hage - Carnival
Communists and Muslims are not the enemies to fear in this land, Fly. It is the food consumption that will eventually blow up in everyone’s faces.
Jennifer A. Nielsen - The Shadow Throne
Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could.
Mary E. DeMuth - Wall Around Your Heart
We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.
Richelle Mead - Blood Promise
We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever. Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.
Will Davis Jr. - 10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them
Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them.
S.E. Zbasnik - The King's Blood
He was king, if he didn’t have enemies he wasn’t doing it right.
Warder C. Allee - The Social Life Of Animals
The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!
Taras Shevchenko - Kobzar
There are no such enemies So dire as good people, They will rob you, mournfully, And condemn you, weeping, They'll invite you to their home, Welcome you profusely, Ask you all about yourself, To mock and abuse you, Later, mock at you and jeer, To grab you for sure... Without enemies on earth Somehow one can endure.But those good people yet will Everywhere beset you, Even in the other world They will not forget you.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann -
Relationships with your enemies; you need to cultivate those, because: "Only true enemies stab you in the front.
Ben Fountain - Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women