Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cormac McCarthy

I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.

Irving Kristol

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

Eoin Colfer

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

Indira Gandhi

The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

Greg Gutfeld

We need to remember who the enemy is, and then we need to eat them alive.

Gregor Strasser

We National Socialists are enemies, deadly enemies, of the present capitalist system with its exploitation of the economically weak … and we are resolved under all circumstances to destroy this system.

David Foster Wallace

Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.

There's no enemy in the auditioning process. Everybody wants you to be the right person when you walk in the room. We're all just trying to make a soup here, and they're trying to figure out the right ingredients for the soup.

Yasser Arafat

strike terror in your enemy ... if they want peace, then let's have peace.

Brian Roberts

It's a situation that you wouldn't put your worst enemy in,

I've seen the enemy and it is me.

George Herbert

Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee.

George Herbert

Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.

George Herbert

Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.

George Washington

It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

George Washington

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

George W. Bush

All I can tell you is that I know the enemy, allies, and troops hear what I say.

George Santayana

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

George Orwell

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

Elsa Maxwell

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Elvis Costello

[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.

Jawaharlal Nehru

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

You ratchet up the energy level, just the same way you would if you knew the enemy was four miles away and they were ready to take over if you let up for one minute,

Guy Gavriel Kay

We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.

Gore Vidal

It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

Gore Vidal

One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

Gore Vidal

Never offend an enemy in a small way.

Harold Nicolson

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

George Eliot

Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.

George Eliot

Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.

Steven Moffat

The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.