Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction. – Theodore C. Sorensen
Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing. – Tom Jones
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath
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. – Vladimir Putin
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. – Sun Tzu
It’s true that since 9/11, the application of conventional military rules of engagement has gotten a bit foggy. The Taliban were not an ‘enemy state,’ but the Canadian Forces conducted its operations in Afghanistan as though the rules of war applied anyway. – Terry Glavin
I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it’s really fun filming. – Tom Felton
Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement. – Steven Pinker
The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it’s the enemy of comedy. It’s the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up. – Steven Moffat
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. – Voltaire
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards. – Sun Tzu
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. – Sun Tzu
Death is the ultimate enemy – and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. – Stephen Jay Gould
Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it. – Sarah West
I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I’ve seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person’s. ‘A Brief Encounter with the Enemy’ was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them. – Said Sayrafiezadeh
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy. – Vladimir Putin
I know the established Christian theology… I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn’t know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war. – Sun Myung Moon
I can’t fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There’s your enemy in bed beside you. – T. C. Boyle
With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life. – Zack Wamp