#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

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#bare #battle #become #before #begin

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#forgive #happiness #love #forgiveness

Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing. ↗

— John Bigelow

#batteries #charge #commence #dawn #early

Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place. ↗

— John Buford

#advance #enemy #everybody #excitement #found

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#between #cry #enemy #i #morning

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to. ↗

— John Byng

#lying #morning #next #nothing #saw

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible. ↗

— Cao Cao

#battle #certain #decline #defeated #doubts

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

— John Chrysostom

#domestic #enemy #fallacious #hostile #more

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#complaining #could #death #enemy #fought