We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction
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We often give our enemies the means to our own destruction.
AESOP The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enem...
AESOP The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemie...
AESOP It also finances our enemies. To fight the terror inflicted by killers, thugs and terrorists around ...
JOHN WALTERS Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
LEON URIS Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
JEAN TOOMER B.O.Y. means ‘Beware of You’… Be aware of your power. We have the choice to live positively or...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS We are not often against the evils, only because our enemies are against them.
M.F. MOONZAJER Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give th...
M. SCOTT PECK "The powers we all possess can be that of our beginnings and or of our own self destruction
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we gi...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we gi...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request,...
BRENDAN FRANCIS The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our ...
DAVID MCGEE Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsou...
JANE MCGONIGAL The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The ultimate objective of all this is the destruction of Arab identity; for the enemies of the Arab ...
BASHAR ASSAD We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And ofte...
CARRIE PRESTON To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are o...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All people are, at heart, egocentric. We exist at the center of our own little universes. We believe...
PETER DAVID To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.
CASSANDRA CLARE This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children./ Don't do your enemies' work ...
MARGE PIERCY We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S...
DUNCAN HUNTER Who provides the opportunity to cultivate patience? Not our friends. Our enemies give us the most cr...
TENZIN GYATSO THE 14TH DALAI LAMA Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and wha...
MARISSA MEYER What we frankly give, forever is our own.
GEORGE GRANVILLE What we frankly give, forever is our own
GEORGE GRANVILLE I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgm...
TIM COPE Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY When we allow our hands and our minds to wither in our efforts to control our own habits, our own hu...
GENE CRAWFORD Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
GEORGE W. BUSH We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We la...
MARK TWAIN Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
HONORE DE BALZAC Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We wind up in cells of our own making when we're not generous, loving, compassionate, and forgiving....
MARTIN SHEEN Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we ...
DARNELL LAMONT WALKER On this special United Nations Day, let us take those adequate steps to stop the careless exploitati...
KLAUS TOEPFER Greetings and death to our enemies.
DAN AYKROYD How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our o...
ANNE BRONTë The idea of improvisation means that we confront ourselves with our own individual creativity.
BRIAN ALGER It was necessary for us to discover greater powers of destruction than our enemies. We did. But afte...
THOMAS J. WATSON When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
KHALIL GIBRAN When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, ...
BIBLE When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our...
DALE CARNEGIE We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.
G. K. CHESTERTON We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet min...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countle...
PAUL BLOOM The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is...
TAMMY BALDWIN The worst men often give the best advice.
Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attenti...
MIKE NORTON Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest...
BERTRAND RUSSELL We can learn even from our enemies.
OVID We often have to Eat our own Words even though they are not Edible!
JAI SINGH We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
YITZHAK RABIN We often get off the path and give up when we are just one step away from our victory
SUNDAY ADELAJA We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. It is not unreasonable for us to desire some options. Some Europeans, I know, believe it is necessar...
HENRY KISSINGER War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN Our views differ, but we are not enemies.
ALEXANDER MILINKEVICH We thank God that our enemies are idiots.
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are l...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are lib...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, ...
GEORGE PAPANDREOU In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and gro...
AUDRE LORDE We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELL In the end,we will remember not thewords of our enemies but silence of our freinds.
UNKNOWN Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than...
JANE AUSTEN When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our...
DALE CARNEGIE The saying,give us this day our daily bread means,seek today's good for today only,any excess means ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time...
PYTHAGORAS We cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends.
MIKE PENCE How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the l...
JULIAN BARNES We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our f...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liber...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but
the silence of our friends.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes f...
CRISS JAMI And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same
NELSON MANDELA The saying "Give us this day our daily bread." simply means every day my beliefs must cater for my n...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the int...
GRAHAM GREENE Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the int...
GRAHAM GREENE If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in...
C. S. LEWIS If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in...
C.S. LEWIS Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our ...
GEORGES ROUAULT In multitude of friends, we can barely identify our enemies
ETC WANYANWU We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our frien...
P. D. JAMES We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our fri...
P. D. JAMES Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of ou...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of u...
SHARON SALZBERG Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. The...
PRATIBHA PATIL We make our own sauce. We make our own rub. We make our own marinade. We make everything but the mea...
JAMES ROBBINS Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
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