A Quotes
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“An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.”
“An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.”
Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works
“An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.”
“An enemy of yours is an enemy of mine; an enemy of mine is an enemy of yours; if an enemy of mine is not an enemy of yours, then you're an enemy of mine.”
“An enemy sees his attackers laughing? It is better than all the insults. A man who laughs as he goes into battle is a man who has confidence, and a man with confidence is terrifying to an enemy. “For the whore!” I shouted.”
Source: Warriors of the Storm
“An enemy should be struck at his weak point.”
“An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.”
“An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.”
Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden
“An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.”
Source: The Reawakening
“An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.”
“An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.”
Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
“An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.”
“An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.”
Source: The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)
“An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.”
“An energy vampire can never “steal” energy from us unless we consciously or unconsciously permit them to.”
Source: Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
“An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.”
Source: On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams
“An Enforcer’s style is to destroy all magicians in sight and lap up their essence like a starved cur.”
Source: Wrath, Prequel to Tredan's Bane
“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done”
Source: Mansfield Park
“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.”
Source: Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P
“An engaged workforce is a powerful force that can overcome any challenge.”
“An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition
“An engaging conversation is a two-way street. Learn to delight in dialogue to ensure mutual respect and consideration.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review”
Source: To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
“An engaging, blow-by-blow account of the infancy of the Obama presidency. . . . Manna for political junkies. . . . Thoroughly researched . . . humanizes a figure considered periodically out-of-touch even by some of his admirers.”
“An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two”
“An engineer can look at the data, but he needs a translator from the cockpit - the driver - to understand it completely. For example, only the driver can tell you why he abruptly takes his foot off the gas pedal at a certain point. The data doesn't necessarily tell the engineer whether the driver made a mistake at that point or the car was acting up. The information the driver provides often helps determine the direction of development.”
“An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.”
“An engineer is a machine for turning coffee into designs (apologies to Paul Erdős)”
“An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!”
Source: Predator Cities #1: Mortal Engines
“An engineers goal is to make himself obsolete.”
“An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“An english baron wed to my daughter? I'll die first, I will." Johanna quit rubbing Claire's shoulder and stepped forward. "A very rich baron," she blurted out. The laird frowned at Johanna with what she thought was indignation. "Wealth is not an issue here," he muttered. "How rich?" They were married an hour later.”
“An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.”
Source: Around the World in Eighty Days
“An English friend says Australia seems so messy to her: 'Because of all the overhead wires - we don't have them like you do. Your country towns seem so untidy. The barbed wire for fences, all of that'.”
Source: Why You Are Australian: A Letter to My Children
“an English girl might well believe
that time is how you spend your love.”
Source: To a Fault
“An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.”
“An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.”
“An English man-at-arms had his helmet split open and his skull with it, so that he rode wavering from the fight, blood pouring down his mail coat. His horse stopped a few paces from the turmoil and the man-at-arms slowly, so slowly, bent forward and then slumped down from his saddle. One foot was trapped in a stirrup as he died but his horse did not seem to notice. It just went on cropping the grass.”
Source: The Archer's Tale
“An English man does not travel to see English men.”
Source: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts
“An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.”
Source: The Dude and the Zen Master
“An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . .”
“An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.”
“An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.”
Source: The Red and the Black
“An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)
“An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.”
Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
“An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.”
“An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.”
“An Englishman fears contempt more than death.”
Source: Works: With a Life and Notes
“An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.”