Enemy Quotes - Page 36

• When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Revenge, Men, Generosity

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• Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend.

  Confucius

  Heart, Target, Bigs

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• How unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No talebearer can inform on us; no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can come tumbling out of some hidden closet to abash us and expose out past; no unsuspected weakness in our characters can come to light to turn God away from us, since He knew us utterly before we knew him and called us to Himself in the full knowledge of everything that was against us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sweet, Father, Character

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• As long as the mind is unsubdued, there is always outside harm. Once the mind is subdued, once there is no anger in the mental continuum, there is no outside enemy. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Long, Mind, Harm

  Rinpoche Thubten Zopa (1994). “The Door to Satisfaction: The Heart Advice of a Tibetan Buddhist Master”, Wisdom Publications (MA)

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• Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.5

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• Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

  Jack Weatherford

  Victory, Made

  Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.8, Broadway Books

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• Don't forgive your enemies for their sake - do it for your sake.

  Bill Bartmann

  Forgiving, Sake, Forgive Your Enemies

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• ...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.

  Thucydides

  Heart, Knowing, Brave

  Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Hate, Mean, Tree

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• The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Law, Criminals, Purpose

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• Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Territory, World, This World

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

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• I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first.

  Harlan Ellison

  Mouths, Firsts, Graves

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• There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Self, Despair

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• The church persecuted is the church pure, and the church pure is the church powerful. I believe that Americans by and large have been cursed with blessings, and perhaps before long we'll be blessed with cursings. However, the assaults against the church will be turned around, and everything that the enemy meant for harm will ultimately be used for good.

  Adrian Rogers

  Powerful, Blessed, Believe

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• I was back on track, raring to go and then the insomnia kicked in. When you don't sleep, your faculties are not as sharp as they would normally be. My memory has been affected, I'm not as mentally agile as I would be if I were sleeping properly. I can't work because to act you need to be able to learn your lines and I can't do that at the moment. Insomnia is awful. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

  Emily Lloyd

  Memories, Sleep, Insomnia

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

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• Hiding out with the enemy brings only temporary relief.

  Max Lucado

  Relief, Hiding, Temporary

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• The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Coward, Doe

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• I am not haunted by memories of Vietnam. But I must admit I never thought we would again witness in my lifetime the specter of politicians picking targets and ruling out offensive measures in the absurd hope that the enemy would respond to our restraint by yielding to our demands.

  John McCain

  Memories, Target, Vietnam

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• How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?

  John McCain

  Exercise, Order, Victory

  "Cohen: U.S. casualties likely in NATO campaign". www.cnn.com. April 15, 1999.

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• We are Americans first, Americans last, Americans always... Let us argue our differences. But remember we are not enemies, but comrades in a war against a real enemy...

  John McCain

  Real, War, Differences

  John McCain's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.nytimes.com. August 30, 2004.

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• With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Woe, Trails, Without Hope

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.293, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The war of Armageddon has already started... God is using his many weapons. He is sending hurricanes so fast that [the blue-eyed devils] can't name them. He is drowning them in floods and causing their cars to crash and their airplanes cannot stay up in the sky. Their boats are sinking because Allah controls all things and he is using all methods to begin to wipe the devils off the planet, [and] the enemy is dying of diseases that have never been so deadly.

  Malcolm X

  War, Airplane, Blue

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• Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Waste, Wasting Time, Planning

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2014). “Unmade (The Lynburn Legacy Book 3)”, p.120, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The (campaign) ads all have the same tone - the voice is hushed and amazed when talking about The Enemy, as if you should worry how this amoral, power-mad, extremist puppy-strangler clawed his way out of hell and landed in your district. And the voice is happy and relieved when talking about The Most Noble Candidate, as though he's Santa, Will Rogers and Lincoln all rolled into one.

  James Lileks

  Talking, Voice, Mad

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• God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!

  Paula White

  Waiting, Turns, Ready

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