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“Envy can turn friends into adversaries.”

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Book:Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Her body faded away so far, she almost lost her connection to it. Utter blackness enveloped her, shutting off all warmth. All light. All love. All support. All hope. She was pinned, alone, naked, and freezing before a beast so terrifying she struggled to avert her gaze but could not. Horns arose from the top of what had to be a head. Fangs protruded obscenely from a frowning hole that must have been a mouth. Unsheathed claws threatened instant evisceration. Horrifying eyes. Two cesspits of black fury in which red flames churned like burning blood. They bore down on Helen, intensifying the pressure on her to the point of agony. Inside her head a message played over and over. You are helpless. Helen’s fragmented thoughts spun wildly. What to do? How to stop this nightmare? The wretched voice roared again, like nails clashing against slate. “Give me the stone! Now!”

Despair Empowerment Inner Strength Adversaries Magical Realism Good Vs Evil World Building Political Intrigue Mystical Realms Duty Vs Desire

Book:Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

Source: Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

“Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises.”

“Helen was lost and isolated, unable to participate with the rest of the group. She was outside the circle with no sense of any connection to a Creator, and no concept of what unconditional love might feel like. If any type of God had indeed created her, then that Deity had made a mistake too cruel to forgive.”

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Book:Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

Source: Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

“If we demand perfection from ourselves we are not living in the real world...The inherent problem in the relationship between the ideal & the real is that the ideal judges the real as unacceptable and brings down condemnation and wrath on the real. This sets up an adversarial relationship between the two and like all adversaries, they move further and further apart.”

Self Esteem Real World True Self Adversaries Perfectionism Self Hatred Self Hate Perfectly Imperfect Self Judgement

Book:Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future

Source: Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future

“If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless”

Purpose Effort Focus Calling Fulfillment Adversaries

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.”

Politics Understanding Opponents Both Sides Adversaries

Author:Alain de Botton

“He had a wrinkled, pointy face like a rubber glove puppet with the fingers drawn together.”

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Book:The Prisoner of Acre

Source: The Prisoner of Acre

“A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.”

Life Truth Divided Adversaries

Book:By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.”

Conflict Competition Adversaries Difficulties Contrariness

Book:Capital

Source: Capital

“The self-proclaimed advocate of impartiality does not want to commit himself to either course of action. If pushed toward one camp, he seeks refuge in the other. Men always find it distasteful to admit that the “reasons” on both sides of a dispute are equally valid—which is to say that violence operates without reason. Tragedy begins at that point where the illusion of impartiality, as well as the illusions of the adversaries, collapses.”

Violence Conflict Tragedy Adversaries Impartiality

Book:Violence and the Sacred

Source: Violence and the Sacred

“Sometimes to destroy the monsters that we face, we have to come against them in the same way that they have come against us. But if I do so in the power of God, I might have come against them in the same way, but I have come against them with a very kind of different power. And in that sense, nothing is the same.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As soon as you start fulfilling your purpose your adversaries will appear”

Purpose Calling Fulfillment Adversaries

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“When you are staring at the face of such a formidable adversary as tobacco cigarette addiction, it can help significantly to have some powerful weapons in your arsenal. Knowledge is a remarkably powerful weapon against cigarette addiction.”

Adversaries Tobacco Quit Smoking Cigarettes Cigarette Addiction Nicotine Addiction

Book:Maybe You Should Move Those Away From You

Source: Maybe You Should Move Those Away From You

“Do not allow the adversaries to hinder you from fulfilling what God has planned for you”

Purpose Calling Fulfillment Adversaries

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“Sometimes to destroy the monsters that we face, we have to come against them in the same way that they have come against us. But if I do so in the power of God, I might have come against them in the same way, but I have come against them with a very different kind of power. And in that sense, nothing is the same.”

God Christian Jesus Monsters Adversaries Power Of God Battles

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If we look at life, all we see is pain, heartache, or devastation, trying to tell us it will never get better; that this is as good as it gets. Hope is gone for you. Do not listen to that voice, because Jesus had paid for our salvation. - The Perfect Storm”

Hurt Letting Go Salvation Adversaries Storms

Book:No Greater Love Than This

Source: No Greater Love Than This

“When God's favour and Godly flavour is in you, your haters will taste wisdom and the only thing they can do is to regret ever tasting a sweet thing.”

“The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”

Love Desire Causes Behavior Everyday Fascism Exploits Adversaries Strategic Power Of Love

Author:Michel Foucault

“For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.”

Men May Moving He Man Kings Moved Squares Adversaries

Author:Howard Staunton

“For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.”

Men Moving Kings Touching Adversaries Captured Offenders

Author:Howard Staunton

“The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.”

Writing Reader Spectators Adversaries

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.”

People Ifs Men Trying Light Realizing Leadership Sky Figures Authority Blue Spite Grants Adversaries Another Man Saying No Authority Figures Light Blue

Author:Criss Jami

“If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.”

Source: American Institutions and Their Influence

“Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.”

Ifs Three Majors Crowds Satisfied Noise Engaged Three Things Adversaries

Book:Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth

Source: Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth

“To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.”

Knowing Impossible Weakness Features Compliment Scar Acceptable Adversaries Cherries

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Might Able Mother Father Forget Brother Treats Forgiving Honestly Treated Adversaries Grudge Older Brother

Author:Monte Irvin

“John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.”

War Choices Interest Nuclear Retreat Adversaries Confrontation Nuclear War Humiliating Nuclear Power Avert

Author:Elie Abel

“If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.”

Ifs Thinking Politics Simple Teach Folly Adversaries Wishful Thinking Appeasement

Book:The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“No wonder nobody around the world is nervous about America anymore. No wonder we're not intimidating our adversaries and they're running around wild in the world, because they know we're not investing in our defense anymore. We need to make or military strong, not to wage war, but to avoid war and to bring peace and stability in the world.”

Knows World Needs War Running America Strong Wonder Military Investing Defense Nervous Around The World Stability Adversaries Intimidating

Author:Chris Christie

“Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.”

Knows Names Lost Bits Noble Teeth Adversaries Treason

Book:The First Quarto of King Lear

Source: The First Quarto of King Lear

“There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries.”

People Needs Degrees Recognition Generosity Flexibility Adversaries

Author:Jimmy Carter

“The good Lord gave me eight grandchildren, and I am convinced that through schools like Desert Christian that we are going to overwhelm the adversaries, not just with bombs and bullets, but with the demonstration of Christian principles.”

School Christian Christianity Lord Principles Eight Convinced Desert Bombs Bullets Grandchildren Adversaries Demonstration

Author:Oliver North

“As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest which just precedes the point where 'elicit' is no longer apt usage. 'Dictates' is the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.”

Moments Seems Power Progress Conditions Response Tyranny Adversaries Usage Optimum

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!”

Ifs War Chance Deals Risk Talent Communication Battle Determine Superiors Magazines Midst Reserves Beaten Woe Adversaries

Book:Napoleon's Military Maxims

Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims

“War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.”

People Thinking Art War Whole Reality Seems Lying Difficult Secret Adversaries

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend to the car of the victor. The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved.”

Should Seems Purpose Causes Animal Car Survival Female Species Males Finals Possession Active Strongest Receiving Contests Exclusive Horns Adversaries Thrust Chivalry Stags

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.”

Greater Fool Offense Adversaries

Author:Brigham Young

“The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.”

Men Doors Conflict Dignity Remains Worthy Compromise Adversaries Firmness

Author:Robert Toombs

“We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve.”

Ifs Men World Long Natural Ability Responsibility Genius Conservative Treated Preserves Almighty Natural World Adversaries Sustaining

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.”

Fighting Difficult Failing Adversaries

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.”

Knows Way Elements Surprise Mma Know Yourself Adversaries Element Of Surprise

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“We really are immortal in the sense that Christ’s Atonement conquers death, both physical and spiritual. And provided we have so lived Today that we have claim on the Atonement’s cleansing grace, we will live forever with God. This life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming. Mortality is the battlefield upon which justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as adversaries, for they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all who wisely use Today.”

“I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.”

Knows Doe Country Government Views Environment Groups Environmental Adversaries

Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.”

Doe States Used Religious Groups Relation Believer Favors Amendments Adversaries Handicaps

Author:Hugo Black

“The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist, patriarchal, ultra-right-wing, religious fundamentalists, whatever you want to call it is devoted to saying that sex is only moral and okay when it is directed towards having children and occurs in patriarchal marriage, so the children are owned.”

Want Children Together Sex Religious Moral Movement Gay Okay Wings Males Devoted Adversaries Right Wing Having Children Ultras

Author:Gloria Steinem

“concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.”

Ends Self Chance Greater Security Avoided Adversaries Reproach Concessions

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.”

“Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.”

Children Has Beens House Race Fine Sorrow Equal Labor Tables Embrace Ill Israel Curse Fallen Locked Adversaries Lament Fervor Impartiality

Author:John L. Lewis

“The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.”