Quotes of: Common-enemy Keyword

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Walter Bagehot

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

William Bligh

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

William Graham Sumner

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

Wislawa Szymborska

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

William Arthur Ward

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

Zig Ziglar

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.

Temple Grandin

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

Audre Lorde

The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.

Jody Williams

Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian.

Mark Helprin

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

Ray Kurzweil

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

The Cost of Discipleship

From now on there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

The Cost of Discipleship

Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.

The Cost of Discipleship

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

The Closing of the American Mind

God's anger is the toil and suffering of man. Man's anger is the love and worship of his enemy.

Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

Complete Poems

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

The Commanding Self

My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.

Cold Skin

there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction

The Devil Will Come

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

The Doctor and the Devils