Best said & enemy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.”

May Said Play Situation Enemy Taken Pieces Captured Pawns

Book:The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece

Source: The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece

“Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.”

People Knows World Said States Whole Helping Wish United Enemy United States Weapons Gains Access Nuclear Whole World Als Allies Nuclear Weapons Engineers Pakistan Physicist Al Qaeda

Author:Richard Holbrooke

“CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".”

Should Said Evil Enemy Bears Moved Gifted Disciple Affliction Fortitude Stoic Callous Death Of A Friend

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of Mohammet and of all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the said”

Said Christian Enemy Holy Catholic Devoted Heresy Idolatry Christian Faith Sects Columbus Propagation Highness

Author:Christopher Columbus

“Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.”

Said War Remember Enemy Sweet Smell Gentleman Corpses Emperor Total War Roman Emperor

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Barack Obama said he may negotiate with the Taliban. A lot of people are saying okay, but be careful. But I said this guy has experience negotiating with the enemy. For gosh sake, he lives with his mother-in-law, you know.”

People Knows May Said Law Mother Guy Enemy Okay Sake Careful Barack Be Careful This Guy In-laws Taliban Negotiating Mother In Law

Author:David Letterman

“The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.”

Men Said Done Enemy Particular Evidence Occasions Gossip Uniforms Tenors

Book:Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

“After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.”

Way Firsts Said Enemy Fire Land Available British Planes Classic Denied Grandfather Permission They Said Coast My Grandfather

Author:Tom Hooper

“King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."”

Said Asks Enemy Kings

Author:Plutarch

“Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'”

Ifs Said Ends Whole Today Force Enemy Winner Commanders Pompey

Author:Plutarch

“A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"”

Said Enemy Soldier Fallen

Author:Plutarch

“With that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying, "Let's cut and run." And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, "Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies." And I know you're not. I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Has Beens Said Running Enemy Cutting Prove Democrat Nervous Interviews Accusing Prove To Me

Author:Glenn Beck

“The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.”

“Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques is true?”

Knows Said Used Enemy Offers Gains Historical Terror Technique Administration Fantastic Irony Torture Suspects Confession Mccain Vietnamese

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“After 9/11, there were a lot of things being said about how the God of Islam and the God of the Christian faith were one and the same, but that's simply not true ... The God that I worship does not require me to kill other people. The God that I worship tells me I am to love my enemy, to give him food when he's hungry and water when he's thirsty.”

People Giving Doe Said God Christian Water Enemy Worship Islam Hungry Christian Faith Thirsty

Author:Franklin Graham

“We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?”

Ifs Thinking Years Said Home Mother Reading Winning Steps Enemy One Day Paper I Realized Newspapers Oscars Papers

Author:Ferran Adria

“I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said something that was critical of me or my ideas, I wouldn't consider him an enemy.”

People Ifs Men Said Ideas Views Accepting Opinion Enemy Critical Nazi

Author:Baldur von Schirach

“Allah said, 'A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.'”

World Said Desire Enemy Land This World Killing Driven Violent Prophet Goods Manifest Collecting Muhammad Slaughter Captives Ransom

Author:Ibn Ishaq

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