#enemy

But then, as I rotated gloopily to check out the scene, who did I see next? Let's just say when your archenemy's trapped you in a place of certain death, and you've survived heroically against all the odds, the last thing you want to see, when you escape at last, is that same archenemy glaring down at you with an expression of annoyed distaste. (Even a different archenemy would have been marginally better.) ↗

— Bartimaeus Trilogy The Amulet of Samarkand

#humor #death

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#arena #assured #enemy #enough #enter

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack. ↗

— Sterling Hayden

#attack #deterrence #enemy #fear #mind

Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do. ↗

— Eric Holder

#attempt #bomb #breadth #bring #challenges

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy. ↗

— Stonewall Jackson

#alcohol #am #bullets #enemy #i

I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement. ↗

— King Hussein I

#day #enemy #hurt #i #in the past

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity. ↗

— George Orwell

#political-correctness #enemy

An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground. ↗

— David Gemmell

#enemy #flowers #death

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#domestic #enemy #fallacious #hostile #more

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares. ↗

— John Clare

#anything #been #companions #drinking #easy