Quotes of: Common-enemy Keyword

When you are dealing with an invisible enemy, use most resources as shield, and a bit as a bait.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

You can only fight one man at a time with a sword, but, with a pen, you can compose a lecture to bore legions of enemy troops to death.

Blood and Betrayal

It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was.

Bruiser

Let the enemy fall by their swords. Words not worth reading die their own death. But our Words will be Told!

The Book of Told: Mere Words

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Brave New World

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Desiderius Erasmus

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

William Pennington

I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

Trevor Rabin

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for "instrumental thinking." But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.

The Anatomy of Antiliberalism

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

Acqua Alta

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

Against All Enemies

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

Among the Enemy

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Aesop's Fables

And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.

Agamemnon

THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!

Arcadia

If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

The Hiding Place

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.

The Hours