#foe

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#jonathan-safran-foer #death

God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#foe #god #opponent #trials #faith

Dreams so often become nightmares. Family can so easily become foes. And people are always more stupid than you give them credit for. ↗

— Mike A. Lancaster

#dreams #foes #nightmares #people #stupid

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver! ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#critical #entire #entire universe #essential #extreme

He makes no friends who never made a foe. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#friends #made #makes #never #who

Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#contentment #curiosity #doubt #envy #foes

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#combat #foes #greatest #must #our

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#great #known #reality #well #well known

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#blessing #curse #dawn #dusk #foe

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. ↗

— William Wycherley

#close #death #eyes #foes #hunger