The first rule of war and business is to know your enemy.
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I heard you run them clubs. You're a rich boy, but you think you're better than everyone. Thing is, I'm still hungry, and that biscuit is looking mighty succulent.
When the king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries. He doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there's a war coming, I…
— Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg, Captain Flint, Toby Stephens, imdb.com
You strike when your enemy is weak.
Josh: It's funny how you two became best friends. Didn't she hate you at first? Sabrina: Roxie hates everybody at first. It's her way of reaching out to people.
— Laurie Gelman, Sabrina Spellman, Melissa Joan Hart, imdb.com
Our real enemies and the enemies of humanity are negative emotions like anger and hatred. Indeed, people who are dominated by powerful negative emotions should be objects of our compassion.
I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50-years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine. What I came to realize is that fear, that’s the worst of…
You are not my enemy. You are my freedom. You are my white knight. You are my challenger, my push to greatness, my savior. I was lost, but now I'm found. I was blind, but now I see.
— Shonda Rhimes, Tony Goldwyn, Heather Mitchell, Mellie Grant, Bellamy Young, imdb.com
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
If the enemy remains spirited it is difficult to crush him.
Whenever you cross swords with an enemy you must not think of cutting him either strongly or weakly; just think of cutting and killing him. Be intent solely on killing the enemy.
In large-scale strategy, when the enemy starts to collapse you must pursue him without letting the chance go. If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.
Be neither insufficiently spirited nor over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.
You win in battles with the timing in the Void born of the timing of cunning by knowing the enemies' timing, and this using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love, there is not inner discord betw…
Although the last enemy might be death, in long and sad police experience, the first enemy could usually be found, Cain and Abel fashion, within the family circle.
A smile can make a friend for you out of an enemy. When death stares you in the face, smile at it and it may leave you untouched.
You underestimate your enemy in battle, odds are you won’t live to see another.
— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Justine Juel Gillmer, Waldo, Stephen Lang, imdb.com
You have to see the good things from the haters. I need the enemy. It is part of the business. They start screaming when I touch the ball. It had started already when I was 18 or 19. It is not a problem for me. It is a motivation.