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We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what we do

Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.

He could not live without adversaries, no more than a tree can live without soil; like mangrove trees, which make their own soil, he could create enemies from within himself.

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer and your wallets even closer.

Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money.

John Kerry's shifting positions, his contradictions, his pessimism and his hopeless rhetoric send the wrong message to our troops, to our allies, to our enemies and to the world,

Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies

I think you're battling common enemies that a lot of other communities are. It's occurring in a lot of Midwest communities.

I think we're all our own worst enemies. We're all trying to one-up each other. It gets to be kind of a vicious spiral.

I think business, government and unions have to work together, and the common enemies to the global economy. We're being beaten by the global economy, and we've got to unite together to win.

I think it's probably to do with the fact that the industry itself has some enemies, kind of neo-prohibitionists. There's always someone trying to basically put us out of business or increase our excise taxes or whatever.

It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

It is important that we have people with integrity there. And I think even my enemies credit me with having integrity.

Just as Islamic Iran defends the rights of the Palestinians, we defend the rights of Islamic Iran. We are part of a united front against the enemies of Islam.

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

Our two parties were enemies in the past. Everyone knows this history. But history is in the past. We can't change it. But the future is in our hands and offers many opportunities.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

Some of these people may come from a long history of animosity for one another, whether it be from their neighborhoods or whatever. Quite literally, mortal enemies may be sleeping next to one another.

I think once you accept that you have the answer to everything, you can do anything to bring it about because your enemies are trying to stop you, are enemies of reason, of truth of everything - enemies of the future. You represent the people, you represent the nation, you represent everything that is good and that entitles you to destroy the bad people.

It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him

Most of the people that defend Pinochet are absolutely convinced that it was they or the enemies that had to be killed, and it was better to have the enemies tortured or imprisoned,

Merkel is permanently underestimated. All her enemies underestimated her, but where are these enemies now? If she was the weak leader that everybody describes, then she never would have gotten to where she is today.

Member States are their own worst enemies once they leave Brussels and return to their national capitals.

Who provides the opportunity to cultivate patience? Not our friends. Our enemies give us the most crucial chances to grow.

Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend

Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was this motive, so unfrocked with anything that his worst enemies could find, except the mildest and most excusable, a personal vanity, practically the minimum to be human, that in a sense his adventure is that of humanity itself. In Wilson, the whole of mankind breaks camp, sets out from home and wrestles with the universe and its gods.

While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies . . . I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

We have to prove to the world that a civil war is not and will not take place among our people. The danger is still looming and the enemies are ready for us because they do not like to see a united, strong, stable Iraq.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake

To make changes you have to make some enemies, but you also have to be careful not too make too many enemies. He made far too many enemies.

The problem stems from the lack of strong families with parents who hold sound, godly principles. Black men need to overcome anger, so they can take back their lives from the enemies who parade as friends. They must become heads of their families again, and begin to appreciate being productive citizens. Then and only then will we begin to see a change in the black family, which will extend to the community and to the country at large.

Today, we do fight a different enemy, but one that is no less ruthless, no less determined, no less uncompromising than our enemies of those wars past. Once again, we must stay the course. Once again, we must have faith in our Armed Forces. Once again, we must hold tightly to the belief that freedom will prevail.

When you stand up and tell the truth, you make enemies.

When a person does great work he assumes a coveted place in the hearts of all and he becomes great. He becomes successful in slaying all the enemies on basis of the efforts and the support of his fellow-beings.

We're not enemies at this point, probably not friends either,

The reactor is better protected than the spent fuel pools. It might be that spent fuel is a more attractive target for our enemies than the reactor itself.

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.

We believe that through discussion and respectful dialogue, this will turn people who have bad feelings about others into possible friends. People are the enemies of that which they do not know.

We can tolerate our past enemies but can never forget them, therefore we must have a correct understanding of history,

We will continue to fight against the heads of the extreme terror organizations, the ones that initiate, fund and send out terrorists in order to murder Jews, ... We will continue to act against all the enemies of peace.

We knew it was going to be difficult on the school. He didn't have any enemies. And that's why it's been so hard on us. Everybody loved him.

Women have tended to be their own worst enemies,

We just have to start doing things right. Essentially, we're our worst enemies.

to the Bride and Groom There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.

True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.

We love a lot of vampire fiction - both fiction in which the vampires are enemies to be battled or stone cold foxes to be dated.

We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.

Two forces which are the worst enemies of civil freedom are the absolute monarchy and the revolution

Those that refuse the covenant, reproach it, or rail against it, ought to be looked at as enemies to it and dealt with accordingly.

We just feel that it's wrong. All it's doing is increasing the number of people that want to do our country harm by making more enemies than allies. I'm just convinced that this administration is less concerned with diplomacy and more concerned about showing the world its strength.

We expect that the enemies will increase their attacks, particularly as we run up to the referendum,

Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party's voters.

We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first.

We should acquire power and strength so that we could vanquish our enemies and enjoy a long life full of happiness and prosperity and face death without fear.

Better fifty enemies outside the house than one within

Either way, the political process will continue to expand participation to all areas of the country and help isolate further the enemies of democracy in Iraq.

Be wait till your best time comes, it is ahead. Cease your painful moments with hope of happiness in next moment. Be happy, good you have done will come to you in next second, your sadness will be gone with suffering of your enemies who want to chop you over your innocence.

Belarus is stuck in the past. Before you, Belarus had no enemies, and now we have enemies everywhere... Belarus today is a pariah country.

Everyone you've ever met is actually a part of who you are today. Even your own enemies, the ones who have held you back and, like, disgraced in the past, without them you probably wouldn't have learned the hardships of life.

Coming into a new area, this organism doesn't have any real enemies; the defenses of the local population are not up,

Don't try to bring me down with your misery sweety, I Don't want your company!!!

And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

And we looked out to see your enemies and we see that you're looking at us instead.

Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science. Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.

Enemies think that by ... threatening us, launching psychological warfare or ... imposing embargoes can dissuade our nation to obtain nuclear technology.

Enemies of peace and stability are behind such brutal and cowardly attacks, which will not deter our health activities in the area.

Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn.

Enemies and pain cannot come close, and no one can touch you.

There's a couple of enemies to improv, and one of them is editing; when you edit on TV it makes it seem like it's not really improv.

The rumours tend to create confusion, ... These things have distracted the Armed Forces of the Philippines from pursuing its primary mission of going after the enemies of the state.

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

The Soviet Union was a one-party state. In such states, enemies of the party become enemies of the state, and the state can punish with full weight of prosecution.

The terrorists in Iraq have again proven that they are enemies of all faiths and of all humanity. The world must stand united against them, and steadfast behind the people of Iraq.

The terrorist attacks in London sadly remind us that the enemies of freedom do not hesitate to target innocent people simply going about their lives.

I wanted to go the full distance, yes, but if I have to finish, then it's not a bad way to finish, coming to your local enemies and scoring a goal that's helped us get a 4-1 win.

Our enemies are preparing to strike us now, and the longer we wait to move decisively, the greater the advantages and opportunities they have to harm us.

Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.

Often, we don't realize we miss infectious diseases until we have invasive species that become pests without their natural enemies. Parasites act like thermostats - when a species becomes abundant it is more susceptible to infectious diseases. The disease acts like a safety valve, keeping populations in check.

Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.

Adhering to this view these lost souls, with small intellect and cruel deeds, are born as enemies for the destruction of the world.

After 9/11, most Americans were in no mood to talk with our enemies in the Middle East, whatever those enemies' ideology, and the Bush administration's policies of invasion and pre-emption reflected that sentiment.

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

The most vexing problem Israel faces is its relations with its neighbors. From the inception of the state until today, Israelis have felt besieged, surrounded by enemies who want to make them disappear.

Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;) / That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

During the 1990s, the enemies of freedom used terror and violence in futile attempts to intimidate the United States and the cause of freedom.

Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.

The bottom line is, I want you to continue to do what you do best - provide our country with close-in access to the plans and intentions of its enemies and provide decision makers with the information they need to make the tough decisions.

Your enemies will speak many unmentionable words and scorn your ability. What could be more painful than this? / You will go to heaven if killed, or you will enjoy the earth if victorious. Therefore, get up with a determination to fight, O Arjuna.

You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks

This is an escalation that we have been expecting, ... The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies.

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

This is a major defeat for the enemies of freedom in Iraq and around the world, and sends a message that despite the best efforts of the terrorists, people throughout Iraq are eager to govern themselves and live in liberty.