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  • Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

    The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.
  • Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.

    Sex   Memories   War  
    Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.10, Random House
  • I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to stay in the Writing Burrow and play with my imaginary friends and enemies. I get sucked into these things.

    Writing   Thinking   Play  
    "Unscripted: Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview With Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • Taylor Swift is very strategic with her friends and enemies. And I know lots of secrets. I can't divulge, but I know a lot of stuff about her. And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

    Secret   Enemy   Stuff  
    "Diplo Says He Knows Taylor Swift’s ‘Secrets’ And He’s ‘Scared For His Life’" By Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2015.
  • How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

  • He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

    Friendship   Men   Honor  
    Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc
  • He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

    "The Conduct of Life". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Considerations By the Way", 1860.
  • True friends stab you in the front.

  • The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

  • People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.

  • It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp.

    Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.453
  • An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.

    Life   Emotional   Enemy  
    Sigmund Freud, H. W. Chase (2016). “THE “UNCONSCIOUS” TRILOGY: The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life & Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious: The Dream Book, The Mistake Book, The Joke Book & Freud’s Theories of the Unconscious”, p.350, e-artnow
  • If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

    Life   Friendship   Peace  
  • I have a recurring daymare that when the Glorious People's SWAT Teams smash their way in, most of us - by which I mean members of the general freedom movement - will be caught flatfooted, sitting in our underwear behind our computer monitors, guzzling Jolt and gorging on Cheetos, while arguing with our friends and enemies online about immigration or abortion, two of the issues that the Lefties know they can always rely on to keep that general freedom movement divided and powerless.

    Team   Mean   Two  
    "Pushing Rope". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 15, 2009.
  • It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing
  • The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

    Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”
  • Never take anything for granted.

    Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.25, Gerald Duckworth & Co
  • It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.

    Men   Enemy   Important  
    James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.1086, Dell
  • The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

  • Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

  • 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.

    Love   Marriage   Wedding  
    Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet
  • A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

  • Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

    "The Gunslinger". Book by Stephen King, 1982.
  • Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

    George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.94
  • Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

    "Our Passion for Justice : Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation". Book by Carter Heyward, 1984.
  • I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

    Arnold Bennett (2013). “How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.49, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

    "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.
  • The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

    Carl Schmitt (2008). “The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition”, p.26, University of Chicago Press
  • You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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