Worst Enemy Quotes - Page 8

• I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, Youve got everything going for you right now, and I say, Oh yes, but! Which is not a good way to be.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Family And Friends, Way, Right Now

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• Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

  George Orwell

  Nineteen, Nervous, Moments

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.52, Arcturus Publishing

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• The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

  Aldous Huxley

  Common Decency, Literature, Anarchy

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”

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• I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

  Whitney Houston

  Friendship, My Best Friend, Enemy

  "Transcript of 'Crack is whack' Interview". Interview with Diane Sawyer, genius.com.

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• It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.

  Germaine Greer

  Dream, Book, Men

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• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  J. Paul Getty

  Change, Insightful, Experience

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• Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself.

  Penelope Cruz

  Editing, Looks, Too Much

  "Penelope Cruz Interview BROKEN EMBRACES". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. December 5, 2009.

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• By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Age, Choke, Thirty

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get angry. They'll do things they never thought they would. They'll bargain and compromise in order to survive; they'll chase after miracle cures and believe just about anything so long as it gives them hope. When hope fails, then watch out. Some people get brutal. They'll turn on each other; they'll become their own worst enemies.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Stress, Believe, Order

  Ilsa J. Bick (2011). “Ashes”, p.347, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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• I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Thinking, Expectations

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• He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

  Aristotle

  Single, Men, Solitude

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• I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.

  Isabel Allende

  Believe, Aunt, Years

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? It's a pain you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy; you wouldn't want to pass it on to anyone else for fear he or she might not be able to bear it. It's the pain of being betrayed by a person with whom you've fallen in love. It's not as serious as death, but it feels a whole lot like it, and as I've come to learn, pain is pain any way you slice it.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Pain, Heart

  Chelsea Handler (2014). “My Horizontal Life”, p.29, Random House

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• ...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.

  Pentti Linkola

  Growth, Population, Excess

  Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.122, Arktos

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• You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

  F. Sionil José

  Important, Lessons, Ends

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• The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.

  Ann Brashares

  Phones, Enemy, Worst

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.403, Delacorte Press

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• A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

  John le Carre

  Regret, Men, Over You

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• And I was holding someone who was destined to be my best friend, or possibly my worst enemy.

  Rick Riordan

  My Best Friend, Destined, Enemy

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• I hate Erma," I told Mom... "You have to show compassion for her..." She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. "Everyone has something good about them," she said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that." "Oh yeah?" I said. "How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?" "Hitler loved dogs," Mom said without hesitation.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Dog, Hate

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• If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Nihilism, Fight Club Novel, You Choose

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.141, Random House

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• Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

  J. K. Rowling

  Tyrants, Ideas, People

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

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• Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Highlander, Ifs, Truest

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1560, Delacorte Press

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• Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.

  Alyson Noel

  Hurt, Secret, Knows

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• Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Pride

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• Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Weight Loss, Perspective

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed: Inspirational Selections from John C. Maxwell”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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