Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Cocteau

Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.

Fidel Castro

The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

Henry Miller

The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them.

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.

George Horace Lorimer

The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

Irving Kristol

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

Georges Danton

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

Georges Danton

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

George S. Patton

To conquer, we must destroy our enemies. We must not only die gallantly; we must kill devastatingly. The faster and more effectively you kill, the longer you will live to enjoy the priceless fame of conquerors.

George S. Patton

Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

Jeff Olson

Time will be your friend or your enemy; it will promote you or expose you.

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

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.

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.

Indira Gandhi

The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good

Jason Sehorn

Kyle and I are loving it here, and it feels like we belong, ... In this league you never know when you'll be staring the enemy in the face -- and he's no longer the enemy.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your enemy's enemy is your friend

C. S. Lewis

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

Cecil Beaton

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

Who is mighty? One who makes an enemy into a friend

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

will not let its historic enemy live in its heartland.

George Herbert

One enemy is too much.

Jay Roach

Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.

Janelle Monae

Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.