We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.' We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.
Before this DJ thing, I was hopelessly taking things apart to try to figure out how they worked. I'd go mess around with burned-out cars, with my mom's stereo - I was public enemy #1 in my house for that. So my mom noticed that I was interested in this and decided to send me to school so I'd know what I was doing.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl.
Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.
The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.
The press is the enemy.
The enemy of the modern woman is not women who like fashion or are writing about it. The enemy is stereotypes that come from all places and that tell you to be one way or the other. The enemy is really real sexist people, like Todd Akin, and people who are violent against women physically or sexually.
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
