Best enemy & trying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.”

Way Trying Bits Consciousness Enemy Listening Hip Hop Hips Contradiction Hops Diverse Exploring Realised Sampling Public Enemies Hip Hop Music

Author:Chris Ofili

“Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.”

People Feels Trying Art Today Enemy Saws Standards Sitting Productions Branches Tragic Combat Best Art

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.”

Trying War Matter Body Enemy One Thing Europe Settling Crush

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.”

“Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up.”

People Trying Use Enemy Critics Negative People

Author:Joel Osteen

“It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.”

Trying Believe Long Enemy Trouble Honest Being True You Like It

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a black man strikes back he's an extremist, he's supposed to sit passively and have no feelings, be nonviolent, and love his enemy no matter what kind of attack, verbal or otherwise, he's supposed to take it. But if he stands up in any way and tries to defend himself, then he's an extremist.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.”

Trying Running Enemy Rights Treats Depriving

Author:Malcolm X

“Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.”

Thinking Men Trying Heart Use Problem Turns Enemy Danger Weak Simplicity Complicated Solve Heroic Adversaries Captured Fleeing Shattering Imposter Artillery Weak Man Prowling

Author:Georges Bernanos

“England is surrounded by enemies - by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.”

Trying Real Hate Enemy Honest England Being Honest Hate Her

Author:George Augustus Henry Sala

“For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.”

Trying Littles Young Wish Enemy Lovers Old Friends Old Love

Book:The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'

“Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.”

Trying Stills Names Speak Enemy Publicity Recommendations Disapproval

Author:L. Neil Smith

“We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.”

“I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn't need to be given "permission" to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them.”

Needs Trying War Seems America Remember Fighting Given Enemy Soldier Guts Permission

Author:Charles Foster Johnson

“I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.”

People Trying Understanding Enemy Flames Division Categories Divides

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.”

Giving Trying Bigs Enemy Huge Walking Gun Machines Give Me Radio Heavy Vietnam Jungle Machine Guns Grunt

Author:Bob Gunton

“Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first.”

People Love Trying Mind Firsts Night Forget Enemy Focus Worst Anxiety Stress Slave Be Good Wander Awake Worst Enemy Good Love Awake At Night

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“When you are engaged in both trying to kill and capture the enemy and get support from the local population, you have to be always asking yourself, "Is what I'm doing keeping that balance?"”

Trying Enemy Support Balance Asking Population Locals Engaged Capture

Author:Hillary Clinton

“We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.”

People Trying Reason Faces Enemy Brutal Negotiation

Author:George W. Bush

“Everynbody tries not to reveal his weaknesses, so that he may not be ridiculed. Specially before the enemy. One's weakpoits shold not be revealed. Becaues ohe canstrike on those to ruin us. So one shold remain strong before the enemy.”

Trying May Political Strong Enemy Weakness Ruins

Author:Chanakya

“Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.”

“I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.”

Thinking Should Trying Jobs Turns Nations Enemy Military Building Citizens Murder Down And Democratic Iraq Engaged Hunts Isis Utopia American Citizens Jihad Switzerland Nation Building

Author:Ted Cruz

“It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.”

People Trying Country Enemy Bases Scare Allies

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, Id be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that thats the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because Ive always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.”

Trying I Can Would Be Wanted Enemy Roles Records Groups Decided Crowds Rap Hype Back In The Day Mics Public Enemies

Author:Flavor Flav

“Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn't mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.”

Should Trying Mean Happens Enemy Mortals Disagree Mortal Enemies

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Here's some news from Afghanistan. We're sending more troops to seal up the borders. Can we try that here? Three months, 12,000 pounds of bombs and billions and billions of dollars and the highest ranking enemy we've captured so far is an American.”

Trying Three Enemy Months News Highest Dollars Billions Borders Bombs Pounds Afghanistan Troops Captured Seals Three Months Ranking

Author:David Letterman

“Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.”

Trying Humans May Lasts Political Hate Next Perfect Enemy Principles Practice Century Human Nature Theory Republican I Hate Experiments Admire Republic

Author:Robert Walpole

“A man who tries to make the workmen believe that their employers are their natural enemies is indeed the worst enemy of workmen. For the employees of yesterday are the employers of today, and the employees of today can and will partly be the employers of tomorrow.”

Men Trying Believe Today Natural Enemy Worst Tomorrow Yesterday Employee Employers Worst Enemy Workmen Natural Enemies

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“Woodrow Wilson says that if you want to make enemies, try to change something! Well, I think there is an easier way to make enemies: Tell the truths!”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Trying Wells Change Enemy Easier Telling The Truth Wilson

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If I was trying to destroy this country, what I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people, drive the debt to an unsustainable level, and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decreased our capacity as a military person. And that's what [Hillary Clinton] doing.”

People Ifs World Way Trying Persons Country Levels Leader Steps Enemy Stage Military Capacity Increase Clinton Debt World Leader Wedges

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is just trying to figure out when. And when I say silence, I suppose I actually meant erasure - poetry is a force against that, I think, or it should be.”

Thinking Should Trying Moments Courses Force Felt Silence Enemy Figures Tricks Poetry Is Right Moment

Author:Cornelius Eady

“I ask you to try something. If someone grieves you, or dishonors you, or takes something of yours, then pray like this: "Lord, we are all your creatures. Pity your servants, and turn them to repentance," and then you will perceptibly bear grace in your soul. Induce your heart to love your enemies, and the Lord, seeing your good will, shall help you in all things, and will Himself show you experience. But whoever thinks evil of his enemies does not have love for God and has not known God.”

“Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.”

Inspirational Trying Done Business Enemy Perfection Disappointment Expecting Recipes Leaning In Female Leaders

Book:Lean In for Graduates

Source: Lean In for Graduates

“The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the lengths to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it once lost. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try again, against all odds, against all prejudices.”

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Author:John Quincy Adams

“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”

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Author:Daisy Bates

“The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished.”

Trying Doe Sometimes Care Wish Enemy Plans Achieve Projects Tasks Accomplish Finished Excellent Overwhelmed Unfinished Prosecution Excellent Work

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it on its weakest side, in like manner, the enemy of our human nature studies from all sides our theological, cardinal, and moral virtues. Wherever he finds us weakest and most in need regarding our eternal salvation, he attacks and tries to take us by storm.”

Needs Trying Humans Sides Moral Enemy Virtue Study Human Nature Eternal Army Salvation Storm Defense Camps Commanders Theological Cardinals Fortresses Moral Virtues

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“General Napoleon says that 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.' Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don't be opportunist; don't benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!”

Way Trying Wells Mistake Enemy Victory Prove Benefits Weakness Opposites Intelligent Defeat Meaningful Making Mistakes Opportunist

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.”

Men Trying Enemy He Man Perspective Wide Objectives Labels Woe

Author:Paul Tournier

“Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don't have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you.”

Trying Persons Feelings Reality Energy Enemy Crazy Circumstances Negative Our Time Boss Spouse Stop Trying Time And Energy Trying To Change Negative Feelings

Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.”

Trying Liberty Enemy Cases Issues Discipline Intellectual Backgrounds Individualism Versus Untruth

Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945

“People will like you who never met you, they think you're absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don't want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don't like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that's reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it's not reasonable, so that somewhere it's jingoist extremism.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Trying Mind Doe Real Reason Hate Found Loses Enemy Wonderful Like You Mets Reasonable Hate You Extremism Love Hate Anathema

Author:Marlon Brando

“The medics generally see the worst of the worst. They see everything. They're working on their friends, and they're working on their enemy. The person that was just firing at them, trying to kill them, five minutes ago, if an Army medic stumbles upon him and he's still alive, he just goes to save his life.”

Ifs Trying Persons Stills Enemy Five Alive Minutes Worst Army Five Minutes Firing Stumble Upon Medics

Author:Brendan Fehr

“Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.”

Men Trying May Enemy Path He Man Tongue Wounds Kingdoms Phrases Harsh Impatient Unkind Kind Words Hasty Unkind Words

Book:Daily meditations on the path and its qualifications: from the works of Annie Besant

Source: Daily meditations on the path and its qualifications: from the works of Annie Besant

“Persevere in labors that lead to salvation. Always be busy in spiritual actions. In this way, no matter how often the enemy of our souls approaches, no matter how many times he may try to come near us, he'll find our hearts closed and armed against him.”

Way Trying Heart May Soul Matter Action Spiritual Enemy Approach Labor Salvation Busy Persevere

Author:Cyprian

“Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.”

Thinking Giving Trying Kind Faces Challenges Cities Enemy New York Bombs New York City Squares Airplane Detroit Subway Breadth Times Square

Author:Eric Holder

“I am definitely questioning the atonement and trying to discover how we can see it in a different way. We've got this image of God who needs some sort of flesh, some sort of blood, that needs some sort of vengeance to pay for sin. My experience of a loving God who's asked me to love my enemies - this isn't a God that demands something before you are accepted. I think Jesus died because Jesus was inclusive. God is inclusive. I think that the idea of God somehow being separated from us was more man's idea.”

Thinking Men Way Needs Trying Ideas Different Jesus Sin Pay Enemy Blood Demand Died Flesh Accepted Different Ways Questioning Vengeance Loving God Atonement God Image

Author:Jay Bakker

“My philosophy, one of the biggest enemies of future success is past success, because you become complacent, you become risk averse, and that's one of the things we try to drive here, and this is fundamental to this philosophy, and that's in this component change, and also in value creation. That we need to drive creative destruction, not just incremental innovations, but innovations that will change the whole nature of the business.”

Needs Trying Philosophy Whole Past Values Enemy Creative Risk Creation Destruction Innovation Fundamentals Components Complacent Future Success Past Success Creative Destruction

Author:Charles Koch

“...Sean Penn claimed to be 'serv[ing] the country' by giving aid and comfort to an enemy about to be attacked by the US. He said it made him feel more patriotic to dissent from the war aims of his nation. It is at least a counterintuitive position. Most people would not instantly grasp how it is more patriotic to always root against America. White supremacists should try claiming that burning crosses is more supportive of civil rights than not burning them.”

People Giving Feels Should Trying Made Said War Country America Nations White Enemy Rights Position Comfort Crosses Roots Aim Aids Civil Rights Burning Patriotic Supportive Dissent Sean

Author:Ann Coulter

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