#adversary

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#beware #patient #wrath

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#adversary #against #deterrent #meant #nuclear

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

#argument #armed #blithe #calls #come

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

#almost #another #because #countenance #elements

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

— Phil Keoghan

#any #good #good story #heroes #make

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#adversary #battle #strategy #war #strategy

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

— Eric Cantona

#cinema #football #you #yourself

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

— William Godwin

#ally #genius #learning #much #proper

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

— Hanoi Hannah

#believe #enemy #even #friendly #own

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

#arms #contrary #cowardly #down #his