Enemy Quotes - Page 20

• Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Heart, Evil

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

  William James

  Education, Allies, Nervous

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

  Abraham Flexner

  Real, Men, Wings

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• One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

  Takeda Nobushige

  Dragons, Soldier, Abuse

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• Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

  Stanley Crouch

  Brotherhood, Bigs, Leap

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• I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

  Sigmund Freud

  Religion, Dangerous, Psychiatry

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• Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

  Propertius

  Fighting, Sheep, Horny

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• I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.

  Elliott Smith

  Leaving, Comfort, Littles

  Song: A Fond Farewell, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004

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• Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

  Robert Frost

  Play, Able, Cowardice

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• An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

  James Mattis

  Military, Marine, Accomplishment

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• Our comfort zones can be our greatest enemy to our potential.

  David Cottrell

  Comfort, Comfort Zone, Zone

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• Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

  Whitney Houston

  Worst Enemy, Decision, Devil

  "Transcript: Whitney Houston: 'I'm a Person Who Has Life'". "Primetime" with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. December 4, 2002.

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• O you, who spends his lifetime disobeying his Lord, no one amongst your enemies is wicked to you more than you are to yourself

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Wicked, Lifetime, Lord

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• For my own part, I believe that in dealing with skeptics, and unbelievers, and enemies of the Bible, Christians are too apt to stand only on the defensive. They are too often content with answering this or that little objection, or discussing this or that little difficulty, which is picked out of Scripture and thrown in their teeth. I believe we ought to act on the aggressive far more than we do, and to press home on the adversaries of [Biblical] inspiration the enormous difficulties of their own position.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Inspiration, Believe

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• My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Revenge, Hoe, Lust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

  Cecil Beaton

  Whole, I Can

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• A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of our possible enemies.

  William Sims

  Powerful, War, Navy

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• No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wise, War, Home

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

  Marshall Ganz

  Abstraction

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• Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.

  Propertius

  Men, Rejoice, Mines

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• Unless people can see broad vistas of unused resources in front of them, the belief in limited resources tends to follow as a matter of course. And if the idea is accepted that the world's resources are fixed, then each person is ultimately the enemy of every other person, and each race or nation is the enemy of every other race or nation. The extreme result is tyranny, war and even genocide. Only in a universe of unlimited resources can all men be brothers.

  Robert Zubrin

  Brother, War, Moon

  Robert Zubrin (2012). “The Case For Mars”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Battle, Allies

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• The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Politics, Common

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• I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I don't think you see your mind. You think of the mind as the clutter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Thinking, Mind

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