Enemy Quotes - Page 22

• To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

  Alain de Botton

  Hate, Self Loathing, I Hate Myself

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• Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.

  Will Durant

  Rome, Long, Unity

  Will Durant (2011). “Caesar and Christ: The Story of Civilization”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Dance, Winning, Succeed

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• Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Spiritual, Art

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Mean, Taunting

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• He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy,
  shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.

  Thomas Szasz

  Forgiveness, Unjust, Rewards

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• If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Battle, Should

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.53, Kodansha International

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• But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them

  Wilkie Collins

  Clever, Men, Brain

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.1947, Delphi Classics

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• Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Military, War, Air Power

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• To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war.

  Giulio Douhet

  Military, War, Mean

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Military, Lines, Saws

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.499, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Understanding future warfare is the most important responsibility of those who must defend a nation from future enemies!

  Perry M Smith

  Military, Responsibility, Understanding

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• Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks, too. But we're gonna fool them.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Strong, College

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

  John Dryden

  Forgiveness, Soul, Forgiving

  John Dryden (1882). “Dramatic works”

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• Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sports, Home, Waiting

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• I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Witty, Worst Enemy

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• Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Jealousy, Passion, Envy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.39

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• Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Obviousness, Economics, Correctness

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.48, 谷月社

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• We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

  John Stott

  Money, Light, Excess

  John R. W. Stott (1999). “Our Social and Sexual Revolution: Major Issues for a New Century”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

  E. W. Howe

  Success, Mean, Numbers

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• The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Running, Worst Enemy, Skills

  Uell Stanley Andersen (1954). “The key to power and personal peace”

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• Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

  George Santayana

  Weapons, Argument, Dangerous

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word "is". Literal and symbolic knowledge. The unknowable”

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• How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?

  Donella Meadows

  Light, Appreciate, Perfect

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• Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.

  Arrian

  War, School, Men

  Arrian (1970). “The life of Alexander the Great”

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

  Anita Diament

  Mother, Garden, Childhood

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