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Enemy Quotes (page 55)

Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our own cold solitude. Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. That's why I tell you yet again, and you want to keep in mind: Boccaccio doesn't understand love. Love can never be laughable. Love has nothing in common with laughter. Milan Kundera
Beauty is the enemy . We try to conquer not feeling beautiful all our lives. It's a battle that can't be won. There's no definition of beauty. The only way to achieve beauty is to feel it from inside without breaking down into individual physical attributes Miley Cyrus
This is the key to understanding the difference between indigenous and civilized warfare: Even in warfare the indigenous maintain relationships with their honored enemy. This is the key to understanding the difference between indigenous and civilized ways of living. This is only one of many things those we enslave could tell us, if only we asked: They, too, are alive, and present another way of living, a way of living that is not - in contradistinction to our God and our Science and our... Derrick Jensen
Whatever your gravity is when you get to the door, remember -- the enemy's gate it down. If you step through your own door like you're out for a stroll, you're a big target and you deserve to get hit. With more than a flasher. Orson Scott Card
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for..."
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. J. R. R. Tolkien
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir,... Patrick Henry
Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity. Peter Brook
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. George Orwell
Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote: "Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting..."
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Barry Unsworth quote: "Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they..."
Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had. Barry Unsworth
Emily Bronte quote: "Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they..."
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies. Emily Bronte
Terence McKenna quote: "Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is..."
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Terence McKenna
Allan Bloom quote: "Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth..."
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. Allan Bloom
We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally— Emily Dickinson
Normally he was fond of most things. He was a good-natured and cheerful young man, who liked life and the great majority of those who lived it contemporaneously with himself. He had no enemies and many friends. But today he had noticed from the moment he had got out of bed that something was amiss with the world. Either he was in the grip of some divine discontent due to the highly developed condition of his soul, or else he had a grouch. One of the two. P. G. Wodehouse

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