The bottom line remains the same: you’re either awake or you’re not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more battles.

The thing is, Ms. Embers, they aren’t exactly on our side.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

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...

Enemies may unite to eliminate a common threat, but never without a wary eye fixed on their ally.

Mr. Cat and Mr. Dog were neighbors who fought like, well, cats and dogs. That is until Mr. Rat moved in. It’s fascinating how easily two enemies ally at the introduction of a third.

I thank you for defying him. You have gone against the grain of some of Zimbabwe’s enemies.

You want to take out an enemy? Ignore the things they write, the things they do, the things they say behind your back. Nothing will shut up rumors and innuendo more than to ignore them and diffuse them with silence.

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

If you truly loved someone you won’t become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.

For every person who closed the door in my face, thank you. For every person who told me I wasn’t good enough, thank you. For every person who laughed and told me that I was wasting my time going to college, because I was going to fail, thank you. For every person who tried to...

You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.

Sometimes you can’t figure out the truth because you’re asking people that are emotionally or socially invested in you to be brutally honest. Often family or friends will tell you what you want to hear, or what they want to believe because of their emotional investment in the situation. Instead of circling the drain with...

I sometimes think that ‘friend’ is just a word I use for all the people I haven’t murdered yet.

The leader who cares for his subject cannot be vanquished even if all his enemies become united.

You must expect to make enemies.””I never expect to make anything else,” he said.

It is always better to be surrounded by enemies that make you strong, than to be crushed between friends that make you weak.

A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.

If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

Who provides the opportunity to cultivate patience? Not our friends. Our enemies give us the most crucial chances to grow.

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

Some hotels were chosen which the Jordanian despot had turned into a backyard for the enemies of the faith, the Jews and crusaders,

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!

Hate is your enemy; you must defeat it! Anger is your enemy; you must defeat it! Violence is your enemy; you must defeat it! Death is your enemy; you must defeat it! Know well your real enemies!

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

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

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

Take good care of your final word. If your final say will hunt you in day’s ahead, then hold back the words, and let silence speak.

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

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

Don’t tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

When things are like hunky dory, every enemy comes in the name of friend, but when things are twisted like turmoil, every friendly enemy shows you their colour.

If you won’t be my friend, you’ll regret being my enemy

The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

Your friends and enemies are defined the moment you come to this world.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

I don’t see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.”

Who knows you more…your friend or your enemy? It’s your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it–which is what matters most.

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

Smart people learn how not to behave from their enemies and the bad people around. Stupid people learn vary little from their friends and the good people around.

True enemies aren’t always the ones who hate each other.