Adversary Quotes
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
— Carl Mydans
If you wait and watch, she's found, things so often reveal themselves, despite your adversary's best efforts.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
— Martin Heidegger
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
— Samuel Johnson
If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
— Robert Jordan
A mother's hardest to forgive.Life is the fruit she longs to hand you
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you. — Phyllis McGinley
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Time is a powerful friend or adversary.
— Pepper D. Basham
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
— Edmund Burke
Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.
— Georges St-Pierre
Love turns an adversary into a friend.
— Seicho Taniguchi
He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Time is a watchful adversary, who waits enduringly for that merciless hour, hurrying to work the hands of separation.
— Kelly Vang
He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
He towered over the Queen with his wings fanned out. Azrael realized he was threatening her, like a peacock intimidating its adversary.
— A.J. Flowers
The most dangerous adversary you'll ever face is an opponent who's skilled with a knife. Avoid these confrontations at all costs.
— Blake Crouch
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
— Jonathan Franzen
China is a rising adversary. So one of the things we have to do if we want China's support is to push back on China.
— Carly Fiorina
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
Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord!
— Jack W. Hayford
Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.
— Ehud Olmert
The world is an ambitious business. It continuously expands and evolves. But people are lazy and God is far too lovely to do something about it.
— Stefan Emunds
That dusty hill we can scarcely look upon and then only with pain, The Adversary, also with pain, does and must ever witness The Crucifixion.
— Geoffrey Wood
We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.
— Matthew Henry
We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.
— Jurgen Klinsmann
I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.
— David Shapiro
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
— Milan Kundera
Your enemies are not to be destroyed, grant them longevity to witness your success.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
— Guillermo Del Toro
We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
— George Bernard Shaw
Never show your weakness before adversary.
— Euginia Herlihy
Before the battle begins and the outcome has been decided, let the adversary know that you are a fearless competitor, worthy of a second opinion.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.
— James M. Paramore
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
— Piers Anthony
The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw.Chocolate. — William Goldman
Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.
— Walter Dean Myers
The Adversary seldom loses when you play on his playing field. It's called the home court advantage.
— Randall Wright
Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.
— Nikolai Bukharin
The enemy hides in Shadow, Master of the Hunt. Therefore be as wise as a serpent, having seen the face of the Adversary.
— Katherine Kurtz, Deborah T. Harris
If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.
— Agatha Christie
Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?
— Brandi L. Bates
Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.
— Mason Cooley
An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.
— J. Oswald Sanders
The most difficult adversary I have ever faced happens to look just like me.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes.
— Joseph Smith Jr.
The real divide was between the Democratic Party as the upholder of slavery and the Republican Party as the adversary of slavery.
— Dinesh D'Souza
To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Love was death's only adversary, the only thing powerful enough to combat its clawing, desperate grasp.
— Anna Carey
The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary.
— David Ignatius
You have to work more than your adversary.
— Jurgen Klinsmann
Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.
— Mason Cooley
As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue.
— Sheri L. Dew
It is unquestionably foolish to begin a battle when you don't know the full strength of your adversary.
— Claire Kent
You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.
— Nelson Mandela
Our resolved will to endure any hostility is the sure way to win the adversary.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I've never viewed you as an enemy, more an adversary ...
— Joanne Harris
Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.
— William Shakespeare
May you constantly nourish your testimonies of the gospel that they will be a protection to you against the buffetings of the adversary.
— Thomas S. Monson
With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
— Phil Keoghan
Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
— Jennifer Crusie
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
— Samuel Johnson
For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.
— Howard Staunton
The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.
— Winston Churchill
You have to look good when you are riding, you have to impress your adversary with your elegance. To look good is already to go fast.
— Paul Fournel
I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
They say love inspires. Guess what inspires more? An enemy.
— Donna Lynn Hope
You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential.
— Star Trekek The Next Generation Episode Guide Team
My adversary is the world of finance.
— Francois Hollande
Beware the Wrath of a Patient Adversary.
— John C. Calhoun
Critics do not determine how high an eagle flies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
— Thurgood Marshall
Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
— Hanoi Hannah
I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!
— Eoin Colfer
Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.
— Richard J. Foster
If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless
— Sunday Adelaja
Wake up! You're a sacred soul and glory is yours for the taking.
— Stefan Emunds
Seeing me before him, / The adversary attacks, / But by that time / I am already standing / Safely behind him.
— Morihei Ueshiba
Always remember that if this were not the Lord's work, the adversary would not pay attention to us.
— Spencer W. Kimball
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius ... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
— William Godwin
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
— Albert Camus
