#enemy

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#arts #convention #conventional #despise #enemy

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#devotion #enemy #fold #hands #his

Reason is the enemy of faith. ↗

— Martin Luther

#faith #reason

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#average #average intelligence #been #complete #contemptuous

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare. ↗

— John McCain

#enemy #expect #fundamental #going #i

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. ↗

— Robert Menzies

#cultivation #enemy #forgotten #greatest #high

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#cases #enemy #much #now #others

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#antagonism #based #conquered #enemy #itself

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#comfort #common #common enemy #cordial #deny

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win. ↗

— Michael Moore

#enemy #grow #insurgents #iraqis #numbers