Adversaries Quotes - Page 9

• We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries. We assume that they must somehow relish what they do.

  Lewis Thomas

  Sleep, Thinking, Disease

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in challenging; it was ineptitude - a grey spread of cotton that seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. She stood, disarmed, before the riddle of what made this possible, she could find no answer.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Challenges, Ineptitude

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• If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.

  James K. Polk

  Men, Hands, Political

  Polk, James K. (1910). “The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4”, p.264, Best Books on

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• One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries.

  Robert M. Gates

  Home, Golf, Weekend

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• For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.

  Howard Staunton

  Kings, Moving, Men

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• For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.

  Howard Staunton

  Kings, Moving, Men

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• The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Writing, Reader, Spectators

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Character, Men, Numbers

  Alexis de Tocqueville, John Canfield Spencer (1854). “American Institutions and Their Influence”, p.260

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• Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.

  Richard J. Foster

  Three, Crowds, Noise

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.

  Criss Jami

  Knowing, Weakness, Impossible

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.128, Criss Jami

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• I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.

  Monte Irvin

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.

  Elie Abel

  War, Choices, Nuclear

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• If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

  Ronald Reagan

  Simple, Thinking, Politics

  Ronald Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.136, Humanix Books

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• No wonder nobody around the world is nervous about America anymore. No wonder we're not intimidating our adversaries and they're running around wild in the world, because they know we're not investing in our defense anymore. We need to make or military strong, not to wage war, but to avoid war and to bring peace and stability in the world.

  Chris Christie

  Running, Strong, Military

  "Shields and Gerson on GOP’s Patriot Act rift, Islamic State’s victories". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2015.

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• Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Teeth, Noble

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

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• There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries.

  Jimmy Carter

  People, Generosity, Degrees

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• The good Lord gave me eight grandchildren, and I am convinced that through schools like Desert Christian that we are going to overwhelm the adversaries, not just with bombs and bullets, but with the demonstration of Christian principles.

  Oliver North

  Christian, School, Grandchildren

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• As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest which just precedes the point where 'elicit' is no longer apt usage. 'Dictates' is the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Power, Progress, Moments

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• When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Communication, Risk

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

  Samuel Johnson

  Oratory, Argument

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.24

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• I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries.

  Fukuzawa Yukichi

  Running, Thinking, Adoption

  Yukichi Fukuzawa, Eiichi Kiyooka (1966). “The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa”, p.225, Columbia University Press

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• I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.

  Steven Weber

  Civility, Junkyard, Niceness

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is narual for enemy to attack on the weaker side of the adversary.

  Chanakya

  Political, Enemy, Sides

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• Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

  Jules Verne

  Two, America, Enemy

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From The Earth To The Moon / De la terre à la lune (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.79, Jules Verne

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• I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Country, Views, Government

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