Top 253 Adversaries Quotes & Sayings

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.

Just as our adversaries evolve, so, too, must the FBI.

Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.

Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Hillary Clinton exposed our nation's most sensitive national security secrets to foreign adversaries.

There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

Father Time and injuries are tough adversaries.

The generational change in our government should not give hope to the adversaries of the revolution. We are continuity, not a rupture.

The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons.

I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

The safety and security of all Americans is at stake in Ukraine and anywhere that our adversaries threaten the cause of freedom.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

Sometimes we wonder whether or not our adversaries have technologies that are a little bit further down the road than we thought or that we realized.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Being a patriot doesn’t mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don’t have to be foreign countries.

Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.

The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways. Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious. There will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide, and conquer us.

Simply keeping pace with China is not enough. We've got to outpace all our adversaries.

Always keep the lines of communication open with your adversaries.

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Adversaries will do the simplest thing they need to do to make an attack work.

Violent ideologies can proliferate and spread; threats are no longer contained by borders and oceans; and adversaries are as likely to be found in cyberspace as on the battlefield.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

My mother says that I have abnormal capacity to tolerate pain. It's the first step to win over adversaries.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.

Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer understanding of the movement, its origins, and our adversaries' mindset. The nuances are absolutely critical. Our adversaries are wedded to the ideology that informs and fuels their struggle, and, by not paying attention, we risk not knowing our enemy.

Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.

We must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors. As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; We will not surrender for it, now or ever. We are Americans.

Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.

The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.

I have a lot to say about my confidence, my fears, my adversaries, my ambitions, my goals and failures.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.

It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

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

It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

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.