#adversary

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#binding #hate #our #tightly #too

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#comprehend #dangerous #his #most #opponents

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

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world. ↗

— George Michael

#degree #drove #fact #father #fought

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#battle #respect #soft #striking #treating

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary. ↗

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#been #conditioned #passing #see #time

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#cannot #him #his #king #legally

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#cannot #captured #his #king #man

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

#lessons #life #mother #phyllis-mcginley #understand

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