Adversary Quotes
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“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.”
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“To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.”
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“A mother's hardest to forgive.
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.”
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Life is the fruit she longs to hand you
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.”
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“But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.”
― The Woman in White
― The Woman in White
“Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.”
― Gawain and the Green Knight
― Gawain and the Green Knight
“At least I’m the one leaving. It’s so much easier to leave than to be left.”
― Gawain and the Green Knight
― Gawain and the Green Knight
“The ultimate courage is fighting a battle one knows they will lose; but they confront the adversary, to prevent them from winning.”
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“The world is an ambitious business. It continuously expands and evolves. But people are lazy and God is far too lovely to do something about it.”
― Gawain and the Green Knight
― Gawain and the Green Knight
“Wake up! You’re a sacred soul and glory is yours for the taking.”
― Gawain and the Green Knight
― Gawain and the Green Knight
“... but in the depths of their hearts, in that true and ultimate depth which is revealed to no one, there remained the memory of what had taken place and the consciousness that was has once been can be again; there remained too hope, a seneless hope, that great asset of the downtrodden. For those who rule and must oppress in order to rule must work according to reason; and if, carried away by their passions or driven by an adversary, they go beyond the limits of reasonable action, they start down the slippery slope and thereby reveal the commencement of their own downfall. Whereas those who are downtrodden and exploited make equal use of their reason and unreason for they are but two different kinds of arms in the continual struggle, now underground, now open, against the oppressor.”
― The Bridge on the Drina
― The Bridge on the Drina
“It is less that you are an adversary and more that you are someone with an opinion that (although frightening to me) might in some way enrich my own. And if I raise myself to being a partner with you on this mutual journey of ours, and if I refuse to bow to the posture of being a frightened adversary as you intersect my journey with a journey different than my own, we can profoundly change what we would have otherwise both died fighting over.”
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“To battle against the heart of my foe is far different than battling against any weapon that they might hold in their hands. And as for my enemy, the same is true for what I hold in mine.”
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“an adversarial mindset not only prevents us from understanding and responding to the other party, but also makes us feel like we've lost when we don't get our way”
― Emotional Intelligence: Empathy
― Emotional Intelligence: Empathy
“The world eclipses and it’s just her and him. No it’s just her eyes and his soul. Her eyes expose and violate him, she turns him inside out. Then, her eyes drop him like a boring toy.”
― Gawain and the Green Knight
― Gawain and the Green Knight
“Waiting for one’s execution is worse than dying. To seek my beheading is glory. Who went to his execution willingly? Jesus did. Jesus even dragged his cross half way to Golgotha. I think he would have nailed himself to the cross if he had to.”
― Gawain and the Green Knight
― Gawain and the Green Knight
“I didn't hit other people or hit purposefully, I just hit. Some object would be at fault. My anger was at myself, every time, all vanity. As an adolescent I was a slammer of drawers and a packer of suitcases. I was responsible for scenes.
Control came imperfectly to all of us: we reached it at different times of life, frustrated, shot into indignation, by different things - some that are grown out of, and others not.
Of all my strong emotions, anger is the one least responsible for any of my work. I don't write out of anger. For one thing, simply as a fiction writer, I am minus an adversary - except, of course, that of time - and for another thing, the act of writing in itself brings me happiness.”
― On Writing
Control came imperfectly to all of us: we reached it at different times of life, frustrated, shot into indignation, by different things - some that are grown out of, and others not.
Of all my strong emotions, anger is the one least responsible for any of my work. I don't write out of anger. For one thing, simply as a fiction writer, I am minus an adversary - except, of course, that of time - and for another thing, the act of writing in itself brings me happiness.”
― On Writing
“The cat and mouse can live peacefully in one house, but the mouse won't get sound sleep unless mouse trust the cat completely.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“It is less that you are an adversary and more that you are someone with an opinion that (although frightening to me) might in some way enrich my own. And if I raise myself to being a partner with you on this mutual journey of ours, and if I refuse to bow to the posture of being a frightened adversary as you intersect my journey with a journey different than my own, we can profoundly change what we would have otherwise both died wrestling over.”
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“But since the adversary does not cease to resist many, and uses many and diverse arts to ensnare them, that he may seduce the faithful from their faith, and that he may prevent the faithless from believing, it seems to me necessary that we also, being armed with the invulnerable doctrines of the faith, do battle against him in behalf of the weak.”
― Fragments of the Lost Work of Justin on the Resurrection
― Fragments of the Lost Work of Justin on the Resurrection
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