Quotes about enemy

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“Are we prepared to make an enemy out of the Kingdom? The question is, are you bastards prepared to make an enemy out of Fairy Tail?”

“I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.”

“Time is the enemy of identity”

“Just because you’re rivals doesn’t mean you have to be enemies.”

“Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.”

“Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually… we tell them to ourselves.”

“You're the enemy. I don't want to sympathize with you. So… So don't… Don't cry like that in front of me! Damn it…”

“One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.”

“Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.”

“… she studied his clothes, his top hat. “And you’ve just come from Parliament? How are you finding that?”

“It’s much like piracy. You tell your enemies that if they don’t fall in line, you’ll leave them to die.”

“I’d be glad of a retaliation that wouldn’t recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”

“It had been so good to see his enemy again. Positively heartwarming.

Hallmark really needed to start up a line of revenge cards, the kind that let you reach out to those you were going to come after with a vengeance.

- Lash”

“Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?”

“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”

“Let my enemies devour each other”

“It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.”

“I am your dwarf.
I am the enemy within.
I am the boss of your dreams.
See. Your hand shakes.
It is not palsy or booze.
It is your Doppelganger
trying to get out.
Beware… Beware…”

“Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy…. Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.”

“Men have committed the greatest crime against women. Insidiously, violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies, to mobilize their immense strength against themselves, to be the executants of their virile needs.”

“There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.”

“Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.”

“Hate Scars. I'm physically flawless-why can't everyone be? Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran. Lothair Enemy of Old”

“Release the demon under promise that I'd be repaid handsomely, my enemies destroyed? Hmm, where had I seen this before? Oh, right. Every demon horror movie ever made. And the horror part started right after the releasing part.”

“I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”

“The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.” I waited in silence”

“He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.”

“A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.”

“The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.”

“Glance is the enemy of vision.”

“We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool let's somebody tell them who the enemy is.”

“Don’t worry about it. We’re used to being told to go screw ourselves. And that’s from the people who actually like us. You should hear what our enemies say. (Nykyrian)”

“The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.”

“Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?”

“Is Loor a man's name or a woman's name?" Aja, TRB.
It is the name of a female warrior." Loor, TRB.
What did she do that was so heroic?" Aja, TRB
She killed her enemies and ate them." Loor, TRB.”

“The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.”

“Confusion to our enemies!”

“I will feast on enemies of Ra until my belly is full!”
“Charming,” Sadie whispered.”

“For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.”

“If you are not with me, you are against me. I have no mercy for my enemies.”

“You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy
is dead. Looks like we’ll have to go over the lesson again the next time
I see you—which will be soon.
Love, D.”

“But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy.”

“Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.”

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

“If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?”

“Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?”

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”

“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”

“All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country… and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.”

“They said it was better to know your enemy, but how did it help to know that your enemy’s one weakness was your weakness too”

“Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.”

“It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town… he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.”

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.”

“Nico wasn't sure whether to kick himself or Will Solace. If he hadn’t been so distracted bickering with the son of Apollo, he would never have allowed the enemy to get so close.”

“A Prince asked the dying spanish statesman, "Does your Excellency forgive all your enemies?" "I do not have to forgive all my enemies," answered the stateman, "I have had them all shot.”

“People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.”

“I don't believe in making war with food. Food is not the enemy.
Said by Claire in The 5th Horseman”

“Fear is the enemy of hope.”

“Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.”

“The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I'll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It's a comforting thought.”

“If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.”

“no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.”

“Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui—these are the true hero’s enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.”

“The true enemy of man is generalization.”

“To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other.”

“Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.”

“Do you even know who the enemy is?"
"I think… it's me".”

“I can be a good friend, or a bad enemy.”

“Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot.”

“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”

“The enemy is always in the mind.”

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.”

“If it's to protect our family, be it the Kingdom or the entire world… We would make anyone our enemy! That's what it means to be Fairy Tail!!”

“more enemies, more honour.”

“Before you were my enemy, you were my best friend.”

“What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?”

“He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.”

“In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.”

“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.”

“We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time
and place we choose. Not them.”

Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed.”

“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”

“An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.”

“It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.”

“They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.”

“How do I know I can trust you?'

'You can't,' he said bluntly. 'You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend.”

“Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.”

“Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.”

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”

“Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.”

“If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.”

“Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.”

“Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.”

“Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.”

“The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.”

“Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).
One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.
Rely on your Self; self-reliance”

“Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.”

“And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.”

“Friends may come and go
but enemies accumulate.”

“Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.”

“Oh, about beer I never lie. A man who lies about beer makes enemies.”