#foe

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#furnace #heat #hot #your #yourself

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#centuries #christendom #foe #islam #radical

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#against #campaign #campaigns #comparative #devising

She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#jonathan-safran-foer #love

Fuck You!' [Oskar said] 'Exuse me!' [His mom said] 'Sorry. I mean, screw you.' 'You need a time-out!' 'I need a mausoleum! ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#jonathan-safran-foer #oskar-schell #sad #funny

God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them." God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch - man created in the image of what? the animals? - the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creation. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#jonathan-safran-foer #plagiarism #writing #love

I like to see people reunited, maybe that's a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all the change, I like the hugging, the brining together, the end of missing someone. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#young-adult-fiction #change

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. ↗

— Aristophanes

#cities #foes #friends #high #learn

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me. ↗

— William Allingham

#every #foes #hope #i #i hope that

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe. ↗

— Nicholas Breton

#foe #friend #hellish #hollow #know