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But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.
— Kate Morton
The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
— Gloria Steinem
We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
— Carl Mydans
The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.
— Francis Picabia
We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
— Alice Walker
If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
— Robert Jordan
If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
— David Mitchell
Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.
— Maya Angelou
So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.
— Plutarch
No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ... , the most dangerous adversaries of science.
— Steven Weinberg
You must understand that even if your adversaries seem to be harming you, in the end their destrucive activity will turn against them.
— Dalai Lama XIV
But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.
— Wilkie Collins
I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.
— Ayn Rand
I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.
— Henning Von Tresckow
Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error.
— Brandon Sanderson
We may be doomed, but why not enjoy ourselves? It will lessen the victory of our adversaries.
— Brandon Mull
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
— Chinua Achebe
I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.
— Evo Morales
Theologians have done more to hide the Gospel of Christ than any of its adversaries.
— George MacDonald
A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.
— Paulo Coelho
We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.
— Paulo Coelho
Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
— Thucydides
Men are fighting ... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Do not allow the adversaries to hinder you from fulfilling what God has planned for you
— Sunday Adelaja
Security is here to protect citizens. You can't do that if you insist on seeing any of them as adversaries.
— Ann Leckie
Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one's adversaries to underestimate one's abilities."
~Sherlock Holmes — Stephanie Osborn
~Sherlock Holmes — Stephanie Osborn
It is not merely our adversaries we must investigate ... We must always work to know ourselves better, too.
— Kate Milford
With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.
— Annie Jacobsen
I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
— Darrell Royal
Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.
— Mason Cooley
The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.
— Peter Gay
Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.
— James J. Martin
The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.
— Evagrius Ponticus
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It should be a matter of honour on the Left to write at least as well, without redundancy or clutter, as its adversaries.
— Perry Anderson
When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.
— Isaac Newton
You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.
— Cyrus Vance
The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.
— John Dryden
If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.
— Esther Peterson
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
— Samuel Johnson
Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily but eat and drink as friends. Taming
— William Shakespeare
You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.
— Nelson Mandela
Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.
— Gelett Burgess
I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
— Samuel Rutherford
A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.
— Richard M. Nixon
If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless
— Sunday Adelaja
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
— Jack Nicklaus
What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
— Joseph Addison
Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.
— Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!
— Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
In order to forge alliances, we first need worthy adversaries. Without adversaries, no alliances are necessary.
— Bernd Heinrich
Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.
— Dinesh D'Souza
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
— Gerald R. Ford
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
— Benjamin Haydon
Kavad himself, if obliged to fight on a Jewish holy day, had been known to request his adversaries for a temporary truce.
— Tom Holland
Someone threw a cabbage at William Howard Taft. That didn't bother Taft. He quipped, "I see that one of my adversaries has lost his head.
— Judith St. George
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
— Ronald Reagan
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
— Frederick Soddy
And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
— William Shakespeare