Enemy Quotes

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
Daniel Craig

Business, Movies, Struggle

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.
Fred Durst

Best, Yourself, Mind

Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
Abu Bakr

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
Arthur Balfour

Written, Biography, Acute

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
Sydney J. Harris

Greatest, Progress, False

I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.
Whitney Houston

Best, Friend, Worst

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
George McGovern

Government, Partner, Democrats

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
John Cornyn

Religion, Politics, Islam

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
Pierre Corneille

Knows, Weakness, Flee

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
Pierre Corneille

Age, Despair, Rage

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
William Westmoreland

Men, War, Difficult

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Friend, Keep, Concealed

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
Thomas Hobbes

Put, Though, Taken

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Friedrich Schiller

May, Again, Rise

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
Saul Alinsky

Freedom, Greatest, Himself

Good is often the enemy of best.
Edwin Louis Cole

Good, Best, Often

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
Manfred von Richthofen

Beautiful, Stone, Grave

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
Billy Sunday

Eternal, Liquor, Traffic

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen

Truth, Freedom, Society

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
David Ogilvy

Ignore, Dangerous, Research

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Samuel Richardson

Great, Food, Study

Sense of smell, of course, is only one of those dog qualities that can't be replicated or improved upon. I've been researching dogs in warfare for my book about 'Rin Tin Tin,' and I've read many accounts of their heroics: carrying messages through battle, alerting troops to enemy planes, and even parachuting behind enemy lines.
Susan Orlean

Book, Battle, Through

War itself is the enemy of the human race.
Howard Zinn

War, Human, Race

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Arthur Ashe

Friendship, Both, Hand

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
Isoroku Yamamoto

Pride, Matter, Himself

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
Charles Krauthammer

Violence, Themselves, While

I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
Lech Walesa

Love, Communism

I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.
Willie Aames

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
Buffalo Bill

Fire, Moment, Gave

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
Mitch Daniels

Faith, Women, Great

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