Good Enemy Quotes

In war and in peace, a good enemy can be more valuable than a good ally. ~ James Clavell

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. ~ Peter Ustinov

Better is the enemy of good. ~ Voltaire

The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy ... which is good. ~ Walid Jumblatt

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good. ~ Sophocles

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other. ~ Thor Heyerdahl

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be. ~ Tamsin Egerton

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy. ~ Criss Jami

Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd. ~ Flavor Flav

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. ~ P.D. James

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ~ Oscar Wilde

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. ~ Jonathan Swift

Good is often the enemy of best. ~ Edwin Louis Cole

I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me. ~ Janice Dickinson

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T. ~ Marcel Duchamp

We need to learn ... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance. ~ Tony Judt

Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man. ~ Barton Gellman

I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well. ~ Hamid Karzai

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. ~ Edvard Munch

Look around. There are no enemies here. There's just good, old-fashioned rivalry. ~ Bob Wells

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. ~ Diogenes

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. ~ Edmund Burke

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: He knows where to strike. DIANF DE POITIERS, 1499-1566, MISTRESS OF HENRI II OF FRANCE ~ Robert Greene

There will be no enemy if we overpower them with love. ~ Debasish Mridha

I deserve all the good that comes to me. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Why do we so often find the flaws in people while they are here and finally see the good in them when they are gone? ~ Christine Edwards

Paint a good picture if you want to see a good image. ~ Evans Biya

When the whole world starts behaving like a big family, protecting and caring each other, the world will become a good place to live! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had. ~ Barry Unsworth

There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or power to decide what will be the knowledge of tomorrow. There is no use in trying to prove something that is unknown to somebody who is ignorant of the unknown, or fearful of its threatening power. Only the good old rules of learning will eventually bring about understanding of what has invaded our earthly existence. ~ Wilhelm Reich

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good. ~ Ellie Goulding

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise. ~ Damon Galgut

Sounds impossible. I like it. Except it is pretty impossible. You don't happen to remember anything else extremely useful that you've omitted to mention until now?"

"Er," said Paris.

"That was actually a joke," said Vai.

"I'm not good at jokes," said Paris. ~ Rosamund Hodge

People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is it? They're hopeful and good - and that's how it should be. ~ Elizabeth Strout

Do not criticise others, for all doctrines and all dogmas are good; but show them by your lives that religion is no matter of books and beliefs, but of spiritual realisation. ~ Swami Vivekananda

The collective sign of relief heaved on V-J Day ought to have inspired Hollywood to release a flood of "happily ever after" films. But some victors didn't feel too good about their spoils. They'd seen too much by then. Too much warfare, too much poverty, too much greed, all in the service of rapacious progress. A bundle of unfinished business lingered from the Depression - nagging questions about ingrained venality, mean human nature, and the way unchecked urban growth threw society dangerously out of whack. Writers and directors responded by delivering gritty, bitter dramas that slapped our romantic illusions in the face and put the boot to the throat of the smug bourgeoisie. Still, plenty of us took it - and liked it. ~ Eddie Muller

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. ~ Oliver North

The rage crept in. Like a shivering rat looking for a spot of warmth, a crumb of food. And with every passing day came an increasing anger so intense that Thomas sometimes caught himself shaking uncontrollably before he reeled the fury back in and pocketed it. He didn't want it to go away for good; he only wanted to store it and let it build. Wait for the right time, the right place, to unleash it. WICKED had done all this to him. WICKED had taken his life and those of his friends and were using them for whatever purposes they deemed necessary. No matter the consequences. And for that, they would pay. Thomas swore this to himself a thousand times a day. ~ James Dashner

And sometimes that was all you needed in life. A nice afternoon. A good day. Good people in your world. ~ Toni Blake

There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave. ~ Guy Endore

My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good. ~ Patrick Dempsey

Good writing arises out of obsession. With obsession there is emotional depth and a certain weight and gravity to the language and story. Without obsession I would be empty, and, literally, I wonder if I would even have any substance. The body is like a cathedral, and the cathedral needs music and prayer filling its grand spaces. Obsession turning over and over within the body creates music, prayer, substance that, although providing the depth, weight, and gravity I first evoked, also allows for lyricism, lightness, and flight up into the various arches and ellipses of the cathedral. Obsession is filled with slowness - and so obsession in my writing, for good or bad, doesn't come about because of an immediate intellectual idea or problem, nor a quick flash of inspiration. There's this slow energy at work, and I begin to become a part of that when I'm very close to silence. ~ Fred Arroyo

I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point. ~ Chris Stapleton

Book Time
When you find
yourself
hungry
again
And there's
nothing good
to eat--

This is book time.
Pull out a book--
Sink your teeth
into the think
of it.
~ Janet S. Wong

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well. ~ Marian McPartland

You are the strongest man I've ever known. And you are kind. And you are good. You are bruised by this tournament, but you are not broken. ~ Jenna Moreci

He was exhausted ,tired to his core ,
The 'weight' of the world was crushing his soul!
He carried so much ,
Within him , for so so long .

"Beast of burden" - that's what he was!

His rugged face filled with battle scars
That only 'he' could feel
The "smile" he wore was a 'helmet' ...

Waiting for his breath to escape for good
Praying for his final relief. ~ BinYamin Gulzar

I create recipes that are not just "good for gluten-free" but just plain GOOD, period! ~ Carol Kicinski

The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy. ~ Charles Dickens

and it feels good to be good for something in the aftermath of the snows of Stalingrad ~ Markus Zusak

You can't imagine how much good luck is involved in winning, but all of a sudden, you get in a situation where every break goes your way, every call goes your way, every ball that rolls around drops in instead of out. It feels magical. ~ Jerry West

Simon had only had a few encounters with Jem Carstairs, who was apparently as old as his wife, Tessa Gray. They both looked amazingly fit for 150 years. Tessa even looked pretty hot. (Maybe Jem looked hot too? As Simon had thought once before, he probably wasn't the greatest judge of male attractiveness.) Was it weird to think people who were twice as old as your grandparents were good-looking? ~ Cassandra Clare

It's good to plan," Rakaji said, "but don't become a slave to your plans. Be open. ~ John A. White

A good job isn't something you go out and find, it's something you discover while you're working. ~ Jack Ma

THE MORE SHALL WE LOVE
We have to bear in mind that
we are all debtors to the world,
and that the world does not owe us anything.
It is a great privilege for all of us to be
allowed to do anything for the world.
In helping the world we truly help ourselves.
This world will always continue to be

a mixture of good and evil.
Our duty is to help
and sympathize with the weak,
and to love even the wrongdoer.

It is important to always keep in mind
that the world is for us a grand moral gymnasium,
wherein we are all blessed to be able to
take exercise in order to become
stronger and stronger spiritually.

The result of this exercise is that
the more selfless we become,
the more we shall love,
and the better will be our work. ~ Swami Vivekananda

One of the greatest skills in the practice of the military art is the avoidance of the natural tendency to overrate or underestimate the enemy. ~ Hugh M. Cole

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. ~ J.K. Rowling

Being generally deemed a good person often requires one to tell a half-truth, not to tell the truth, or to tell a complete lie. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Marriage is a conspiracy from Tiffany, florists, the diamond industry, and Christian fundamentalists. The only thing good about it is the diamond ring, the wedding gifts, and the honeymoon. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

A decent IP attorney is one, who meets client's requirements; A good IP attorney is one, who helps clients secure business success. ~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

Greatness is the reward for genius ... only a few can be great, the rest are plain good. ~ Siddharth Katragadda

Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it. ~ Susan Messing

Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you. ~ Stanley Tucci

If you can master me, that look seemed to say, then you can master whatever else this wicked world might bring. I can see her now, standing amidst her deerhounds that had the same thin, lean bodies, and the same long nose and the same huntess eyes as their mistress. Green eyes, she had, with a kind of cruelty deep inside them. It was not a soft face, any more that her body was soft. She was a woman of strong lines and high bones, and that made for a good face and a handsome one, but hard, so hard. What made her beautiful was her hair and her carriage, for she stood as straight as spear and her hair fell around her shoulders like a cascade of tumbling red tangles. That red hair softened her looks, while her laughter snared men like salmon caught in basket traps. There have been many more beautiful women, and thousands who were better, but since the world was weaned I doubt there have been many more so unforgettable as Guinevere, eldest daughter of Leodegan, the exiled King of Henis Wyren.
And it would have been better, Merlin always said, had she been drowned at birth. ~ Bernard Cornwell

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower