My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.
Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.
There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.
He's probably their battle poet, too. " "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy. . . . When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.
Woe to the Revolution when the day comes, when the people, overburdened by contributions and consumed by abuses, turn to their enemies for salvation!
A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.
Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe.
The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.
If you help manufacture an enemy that's really evil, you can point to the fact that it's really evil, and say, "Hey, it's really evil. "
The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.
But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.
If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us.
The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.
Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.
In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.