Quotes by Enmity i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink. John Gardner enmitysawsworld I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny. John Hancock enmitytyrannyglory At every step there is a pretext for enmity against our brother. John of Kronstadt enmitybrothersteps Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both. John Milton enmityspiritsex For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil. John Milton enmityessencesex There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account. John Quincy Adams enmitypresidentialpolitical Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment. Joseph O'Connor ragsenmityprejudice Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing. Joseph Joubert enmityemotiontoday People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model. Judith Butler enmitymodelspeople Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small. Laozi enmitysimplicitylittles Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small. The most difficult things in the world must be done while they are easy; the greatest things in the world must be done while they are small. Laozi enmityimportantdone There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal. Livy immortalenmityshould In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business. Lord Chesterfield enmitystrangefriendship Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind. Margaret Oliphant enmitynextmind Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge. Marcus Tullius Cicero enmityrevengeopportunity Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones. Marcus Tullius Cicero enmitysecrecysecret It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities. Mahatma Gandhi enmitynurseremember We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. Peter De Vries love-one-anothertrue-loveenmity The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing. Plato enmityunitypassionate Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it. Rainer Maria Rilke enmitydaily-lifehelping«123»
