Enemies Quotes

I was the Reaper and he was the Ghost, and his soul was long overdue for collection

~ Quil Carter

One misstep was all it took, and it all came crashing down. And they were right there waiting for it—eager and ready to bury me in the wreckage.

~ Bianca Scardoni

Screw friendship. I need more enemies. At least they admit they don't like you.

~ Manasa Rao

The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The reason people will attack you never really has anything to do with you. It stems from their OWN evil thoughts that they entertain and from wanting and not getting their way.

~ Sandra M. Michelle

We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't make the mistake of underestimating your enemies.

~ Bohdi Sanders

There are benefits in confrontation. Even though we don’t like it most of the time, but people who obey this demand of life, live in peace better than the others. They avoid conflict and fights, better than others. They are able to identify their friends and enemies faster than others.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is important to give, not only to those closer to us, also to our enemies.

~ Sunday Adelaja

...dangers, to Francisco, were merely opportunities for another brilliant performance; there were no battles he could lose, no enemies to beat him.

~ Ayn Rand

Focus on no enemies, liberate armies of truth— give berth to your worldview.

~ Kamini Arichandran

...if I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days.

~ Anne Frank

The ideological premise, however, can not be defective; it is sacrosanct. ... Whatever does not seem right, whatever does not fit, must be explained by something wrong outside of the ideology; for its perfection is beyond all doubt. In (t)his way the ideology immunizes itself by offering more and more hair-splitting accusations. Betrayal and the dark powers of inner and outer enemies lie in wait everywhere. Theories about conspiracies develop and conveniently hide the absurdity of the premise, necessitating and justifying bloody purges.

~ Paul Watzlawick

Give a smile to your enemies and they will go mad wondering what you are plotting against them.

~ Amit Abraham

You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.

~ Charles Mackay

I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on.... - Conversations with Yahya Kemal

~ Orhan Pamuk

When you stop worrying about your shortcomings, you deny your enemies, rivals, and/or competitors lethal weapons they may use to attack and defeat you.

~ Assegid Habtewold

We must always be careful never to make more enemies than we could handle if they were all to attack at once.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves?... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.

~ Kate Elliott

Armise and I had met through the scope of our rifles and sometimes I wondered if that was also where we'd end.

~ S.a. Mcauley

First, our enemies were the natives, then they were the Nazis, then after a while it was the communists. Finally, at the pinnacle of what we’re calling civilization, our enemies are the Islamic terrorists. Our enemies seem to change over the course of history along with our ways of fighting them. But what hasn't changed is government profit; politicians and leaders seem to always be getting richer by the blood of our soldiers. Makes you wonder who the real enemy has been all this time.

~ Bruce Crown

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies - Q

~ John Green

The most satisfying win over your enemies is to win them in life.

~ John Yang Aka Private83

Communists and Muslims are not the enemies to fear in this land, Fly. It is the food consumption that will eventually blow up in everyone’s faces.

~ Rawi Hage

Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could.

~ Jennifer A. Nielsen

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

~ Mary E. Demuth

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever. Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.

~ Richelle Mead

He was king, if he didn’t have enemies he wasn’t doing it right.

~ S.e. Zbasnik

The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.

~ Warder C. Allee

There are no such enemies So dire as good people, They will rob you, mournfully, And condemn you, weeping, They'll invite you to their home, Welcome you profusely, Ask you all about yourself, To mock and abuse you, Later, mock at you and jeer, To grab you for sure... Without enemies on earth Somehow one can endure.But those good people yet will Everywhere beset you, Even in the other world They will not forget you.

~ Taras Shevchenko

Relationships with your enemies; you need to cultivate those, because: Only true enemies stab you in the front.

~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women

~ Ben Fountain

Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those--in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can’t escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists....

~ Joseph Brodsky

In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up

~ James Redfield

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.

~ C.j. Cherryh

As a rule, however fine and deep a phrase may be, it only affects the indifferent, and cannot fully satisfy those who are happy or unhappy; that is why dumbness is most often the highest expression of happiness or unhappiness; lovers understand each other better when they are silent, and a fervent, passionate speech delivered by the grave only touches outsiders, while to the widow and children of the dead man it seems cold and trivial.

~ Anton Chekhov

In all nature there seemed to be a feeling of hopelessness and pain. The earth, like a ruined woman sitting alone in a dark room and trying not to think of the past, was brooding over memories of spring and summer and apathetically waiting for the inevitable winter. Wherever one looked, on all sides, nature seemed like a dark, infinitely deep, cold pit from which neither Kirilov nor Abogin nor the red half-moon could escape....

~ Anton Chekhov

Which is a greater sin in the eyes of God: to let a child suffer and die to preserve your reputation, or to become friends with your enemy?

~ Jeremy Courtney

The man she despised had his job back. Her job. Damn it to hell. She’d never be able to live with him now.

~ Abby Niles