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My Enemy Quotes

In my despair my enemy was my only hope, and I pursued him, clutching at his heel. Thus he brought me back at last to the secret ways..
- J R R Tolkien

Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountainside.
- J R R Tolkien

And it seemed to me that there were fires
Flying till dawn without number
And I never found out things-those
Strange eyes of his-what colour?
Everything trembling and singing and
Were you my enemy or my friend,
Winter was it or summer?
- Anna Akhmatova

The only thing that gets me high is the musky scent of my enemy's fear
- Stephen Colbert

You dare to stand with my enemy? (Stryker)
Against you, Father, I'd stand with Mickey Mouse. (Urian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me. Inside me is the un-me
- Haruki Murakami

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
- Haruki Murakami

If I ask God to punish my enemy with vengeful prayers,
then He is fair to allow the enemy to do the same for me.
- Toba Beta

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
- William Blake

I defeat my enemys when I make them my friends.
- Dalai Lama

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
- Orson Scott Card

The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.
- Suzanne Collins

My name is Cammie!" I didn't think about all the people I could have woken, all the alarms that might have gone off. I just snapped, "How did you know about Boston? Why are you working with Mr. Solomon now? Are you my friend or are you my enemy, Zach? Or, wait, let me guess, you can't tell me.
- Ally Carter

It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say "we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.
- Emil Cioran

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
- Pierre Corneille

Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.
- Iimani David

[To my enemy:] Some are great, some are born great, some have greatness thrust upon them! And then there's you.
- Reginald Dipwipple

Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas
- Dylan Thomas

My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost to which I am impassive. You will find near this place, if you follow not too tardily, a dead hare; eat and be refreshed. Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives; but many hard and miserable hours must you endure until that period shall arrive.
- Mary Shelley

my enemy's enemy is my friend.
- Seth Grahame Smith

However, it has long been said that my enemy's enemy is my friend.
- Seth Grahame Smith

That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.
- William Gaddis

I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.
- King Hussein I

My shoes are scuffed and dirty from dancing. The grave of my enemy is where I go to find my inner Astaire.
- Jarod Kintz

If you always been my enemy, it's still that way.
- Suge Knight

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.
- John Knowles

To die in a battle is often referred to as a heroic act, but I will never understand that. What glory is there in bleeding to death in agony on the battlefield? I have no intention of dying at the hands of my enemy.
- Peter Koevari

I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.
- C S Lewis

You have no idea of the things I've seen. I was a pirateonce. I'm not denying that, nor do I make excuses for it. I was young, angry, and desperate. Three things that make a most lethal combination. I wanted blood from the Brits and I wanted blood from my enemy. (Morgan)
- Kinley Macgregor

Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I'm sharing my name with you. I'm putting my power into you and you must do my work. Don't listen to anyone but me. You are to be my command laid on my enemy. you'll make a hole in him through which he'll drip away until he runs dry. As he drips out darkness, we'll smile together, me inside, you outside. We'll crush him between our smiles.
- Margaret Mahy

He was supposed to be my enemy. He was probably insane. And he was my friend. Not that he wouldn't kill me if things turned out that way, but he wouldn't like doing it. With humans, what more could you ask of a friend?
- Stephenie Meyer

On the lips of my enemy, my sister's lover, my lover's killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion.
- Karen Marie Moning

I can't bring myself to trust you. But even if you were to betray me, and even if you were to become my enemy... would it be okay for me to love? Could you... let me love you?
- Ryohgo Narita

Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agonyForgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
- Erich Maria Remarque

But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
- Erich Maria Remarque

She is by my side, as my sister, but he is my soul.
He is my enemy, my tormentor, my demon.
He is my beloved.
- Gillian Shields

Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.
- Sophocles

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
- Andy Stanley

I once met Death, but she told me that she was on her period. Because of that, I couldn't sleep with her. When she came back to me the second time, I simply ignored her, which really pissed her off. Now, Death has become my enemy. I love the fact that Death is my enemy, and yet I trust her more than anyone else.
- Lionel Suggs

Even though he's my enemy I don't know anything about him.
Am I afraid to know about him?
Do I want to think of him as a monster rather than a human being? (Sarsa, Basara, Vol. 13)
- Yumi Tamura

When the enemy of my enemy is willing to use plasma weapons inside a hotel, I think I can do better than stupid aphorisms, General.
-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn
- Howard Tayler

Maxim twenty-nine: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
- Howard Tayler

You...." just you, always you. My russian Cu**, my enemy, my comrade, my prisoner, my gaoler and my life. Words unthinking. "Love......you.
- Aleksandr Voinov

My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep.
- Darnell Lamont Walker

You would have made a fine warrior, you know that?"
I am one. Death is my enemy."
Yeah, it is, isn't it." God, it made such sense that he'd bonded with her. She was a fighter... like him. "Your scalpel's your dagger."
Yup.
- J R Ward

Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.
- Don Young

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