Foe Quotes - Page 11

• If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving

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• Time, the foe of man's dominion,
  Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
  Scattering from his hoary pinion
  Shades of everlasting night.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Night, Men

  Thomas Love Peacock (1812). “The Genius of the Thames, Palmyra, and Other Poems”, p.97

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• Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind.

  Saadi

  Anger, Opportunity, Hands

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• It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

  Anne Bronte

  Hero, Arms

  Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte (2014). “The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle”, p.273, Harper Collins

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• Katsa now sat calmly on the stomach of her vanquished foe. "He was handsome," said said. Po moaned. "Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just push-down-a-flight-of-stairs handsome?" "I would not push a seventy six year old man down a flight of stairs," said Katsa indignantly.

  Kristin Cashore

  Men, Years, Six Year Olds

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• This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most impeccable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known... just- didn't- have it.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Powerful, Light, Order

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• Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

  George R. R. Martin

  Confused, Thrones, Want

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2138, Bantam

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• For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!

  Lord Byron

  War, Heart, Eye

  'The Destruction of Sennacherib' (1815) st. 3

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• Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Names, Silence

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

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• Yelling a battle cry—more to motivate himself than frighten his foes—Lukel grabbed the table leg and swung it at a soldier. The wood bounced off the man's helmet, but the blow was powerful enough to daze him, so Lukel followed it with a solid blow to the face. The soldier dropped and Lukel grabbed his weapon. Now he had a sword. He only wished he knew how to use it.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Powerful, Blow, Men

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• Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

  Euripides

  Hero, Loyal, Glory

  Euripides (2006). “Medea”, p.70, Oxford University Press

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• I always knew there was power in the earth, but it must be much stronger than I imagined to resist such a relentless foe, day after day, night after night, year after year.

  Darren Shan

  Night, Years, Stronger

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• I shall never love any as I love thee, Moonbrow!” she cried. He nuzzled her, very gently. “Nor I you, Ryhenna,” he said. “Tek is my mate. I love her. You are my shoulder-friend, and I love you. I love you both, but differently. And when in a year or two years’ time, you dance court within this glade, it will be with one whom you love in a way entirely other than the way that you love me. I am your companion, your friend, Ryhenna, just as you are always and ever mine. Stand fast with me,” he said, “and no foe shall ever part us.

  Meredith Ann Pierce

  Love You, Years, Two

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• Great. "So not only am I not-human, but Death is my arch foe?" Who, me? Panic? "Anything else you want to tell me, while we're confessing?

  Rachel Vincent

  Want, Panic, Arches

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.131, Harlequin

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• Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

  John Wilmot

  Broken, Lovers, Fainting

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• Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

  Brian Jacques

  Fighting, Slaying, Ifs

  Brian Jacques, Peter Standley (2002). “Taggerung”

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• I do not know why I care," Drizzt answered honestly. His eyes turned back to his ancient homeland, where loyalty was merely a device to gain an advantage over a common foe. "Perhaps I care because I strive to be different from my people," he said, as much to himself as to Bruenor. "Perhaps I care because I am different from my people. I may be more akin to race of the surface...that is my hope at least. I care because I have to care about something.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Loyalty, Eye, Race

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “The Crystal Shard: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.44, Wizards of the Coast

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• Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
  Pass the days of life's short measure,
  From the slow one counsel take,
  But a tool of him ne'er make;
  Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
  Nor the constant one as foe.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Tools, Pleasure

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.298, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Life, Finals, Form

  "The Irony of American History". Book by Reinhold Niebuhr, 1952.

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• Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.

  William Shakespeare

  Cutting, Advice, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (1874). “The Shakespeare Argosy: Containing Much of the Wealth of Shakespeare's Wisdom and Wit”, p.38

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• I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Effort, Quality

  Og Mandino (1988). “The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

  Grantland Rice

  Golf, Years, Play

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• We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

  David Lloyd George

  Fighting, Alcohol, Germany

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• The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.

  Paul Fleischman

  Life, Friendship, Eye

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• Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with your self; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.

  Arnold Haultain

  Struggle, Fighting, Golf

  Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”

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