Adversary Quotes

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose Bierce

Nothing, Thinking, Compromise

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Samuel Johnson

Respect, Battle, Soft

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
Michel Foucault

Love, Power, Desire

It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.
King Hassan II

Down, Quite, Meet

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Against, Adventure, Nuclear

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
Milan Kundera

Hate, Tightly, Binding

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Thurgood Marshall

Process, Proper, Doors

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
John C. Calhoun

Patient, Beware, Wrath

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
Martin Heidegger

Thinking, Thought, Reason

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
Eric Cantona

Yourself, Football, Cinema

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.
George Michael

Work, Successful, Powerful

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
Francois Hollande

Finance, Real, Face

My adversary is the world of finance.
Francois Hollande

I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.
Rachael Ray

Morning, Forward, After

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Phyllis McGinley

Fool, Mind, May

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
Piers Anthony

Dangerous, Took, Position

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
William Godwin

Learning, Genius, Read

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
Chaim Potok

Religion, Experience, Human

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.
Paul Davies

Cancer, Cunning, Ruthless

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.
Ehud Olmert

Against, Position, Israel

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.
Jurgen Klinsmann

Everything, Giving, Win

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
Robert Teeter

Leadership, Together, Rather

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.
Howard Staunton

May, Him, Cannot

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.
Howard Staunton

Cannot, Move, King

You have to work more than your adversary.
Jurgen Klinsmann

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
Hanoi Hannah

Enemy, Friendly, Rather

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.
Josefina Vazquez Mota

Real, Corruption, Path

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
Phil Keoghan

Work, Good, Story

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
Adolf Hitler

Leadership, Art, Care

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