Adversary Quotes - page 4

My adversary is the world of finance. (François Hollande)
Mankind's great adversary. View quote
Torquato Tasso
I like to be candid in my admissions - it is so very disarming ; you forestall the objection which you admit - at least your adversary has scarcely the heart to push to its utmost the advantage which you so meekly confess. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Envy is the adversary of the fortunate. View quote
Epictetus
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of. View quote
Seneca
I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning. View quote
Rachael Ray
Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith. View quote
Ellen G. White
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. View quote
Albert Camus
Whether loved or hated, admired or feared, Ramnath Goenka, or RNG, simply cannot be ignored. He was a good friend but a dangerous adversary. View quote
Ramnath Goenka
We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary. (Menachem Mendel Schneerson)
An adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter. (General Maxims) View quote
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
A masterpiece of a game can be ruined by insensitivity to the feelings of an adversary. View quote
Yasunari Kawabata
Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary. View quote
Tom Robbins
War is not at all such a difficult art as people think.... In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
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. View quote
Chaim Potok
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
You have to work more than your adversary. View quote
Jürgen Klinsmann
We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression. View quote
Jürgen Klinsmann
Paranoid fantasies of a dehumanized adversary cannot withstand the common pursuit of healing and preventing illness. View quote
Bernard Lown
He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great adversary suffices, and who can dispense with success. Life for him was an adventure, perilous indeed, but men are not made for safe havens. The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory. (Edith Hamilton)
Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind. View quote
Ehud Olmert
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
On the contrary, The demons are ever assailing us, according to 1 Peter 5:8: "Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about, seeking whom he may devour." Much more therefore do the good angels ever guard us. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not. View quote
Dorotheus of Gaza