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“Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“For every person who closed the door in my face, thank you. For every person who told me I wasn't good enough, thank you. For every person who laughed and told me that I was wasting my time going to college, because I was going to fail, thank you. For every person who tried to break me, thank you. For every person who took my kindness for weakness, thank you. For every person who told me I was wasting time chasing my dreams because I would fail, thank you. It could of broke me. From the core of my heart, I thank you. I truly mean it, because if it weren't for each of you I wouldn't be who I am today. I wouldn't of spend hours and loss sleep studying. I wouldn't developed tough skin. You pushed me to think about what I "really" want out of life. You pushed me to master my craft. You helped me develop the drive, passion and determination. You pushed me to not wait for someone to believe in my vision, but to find a way to make things happen. I know you didn't "intend" to, but I thank you for teaching me to believe in myself! AND you taught me to TRUST in God and lean on my faith, not man. Thank You!”
― Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

“Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.”
― Heinrich Heine

“In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up”
― James Redfield, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision

“Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues. If the words from the mouth of an abusive man makes you angry, quit the whole arena and you'll discover he had got his mouth shut.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?”
― Marilyn Manson

“You must expect to make enemies."
"I never expect to make anything else," he said.”
― Susan Kay, Phantom

“Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Deceiver

“As a rule, however fine and deep a phrase may be, it only affects the indifferent, and cannot fully satisfy those who are happy or unhappy; that is why dumbness is most often the highest expression of happiness or unhappiness; lovers understand each other better when they are silent, and a fervent, passionate speech delivered by the grave only touches outsiders, while to the widow and children of the dead man it seems cold and trivial.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Essential Tales of Chekhov

“Always be Alert and Expect anything when you around your enemies or haters.”
― Reverend-Leon

“Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and the junk food as far away as possble.”
― Krista Scott-Dixon, Fuck Calories and Other Dietary Heresies

“In all nature there seemed to be a feeling of hopelessness and pain. The earth, like a ruined woman sitting alone in a dark room and trying not to think of the past, was brooding over memories of spring and summer and apathetically waiting for the inevitable winter. Wherever one looked, on all sides, nature seemed like a dark, infinitely deep, cold pit from which neither Kirilov nor Abogin nor the red half-moon could escape....”
― Anton Chekhov, The Essential Tales of Chekhov

“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an exceedingly mild and gentle way, the ideas entertained by me, I congratulate myself that calumny is now the pulpit's last resort. The old instruments of torture are kept only to gratify curiosity; the chains are rusting away, and the demolition of time has allowed even the dungeons of the Inquisition to be visited by light. The church, impotent and malicious, regrets, not the abuse, but the loss of her power, and seeks to hold by falsehood what she gained by cruelty and force, by fire and fear. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other form of faith. If that religion be true, there is but one savior, one inspired book, and but one little narrow grass-grown path that leads to heaven. Such a religion is necessarily uncompromising, unreasoning, aggressive and insolent. Christianity has held all other creeds and forms in infinite contempt, divided the world into enemies and friends, and verified the awful declaration of its founder—a declaration that wet with blood the sword he came to bring, and made the horizon of a thousand years lurid with the fagots' flames.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that." Solin, character in The Guardian by Sherrilyn Kenyon”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, The Guardian

“Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“True enemies aren't always the ones who hate each other.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident

“But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.”
― Danielle Trussoni, Angelology

“I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive”
― Barbara Deming

“John F. Kennedy says: ‘Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.’ I suggest that forgive your enemies and forget their names too! Don’t leave any stone in your head; keep only the flowers, only the names of the good men!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Your friends and enemies are defined the moment you come to this world.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“To Polyakov it was as though a fierce wind from downstream was sweeping up the Volga. Several times he was knocked off his feet; he fell to the ground no longer knowing what world he lived in, whether he was old or young, what was up and what was down. But Klimov dragged him along and finally they slid to the bottom of a huge crater. Here the darkness was threefold: the darkness of night, the darkness of dust and smoke, the darkness of a deep pit.
They lay there beside one another; the same soft light, the same prayer for life filled both their heads. It was the same light, the same touching hope that glows in all heads and all hearts – in those of birds and animals as well as in those of human beings.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

“Which is a greater sin in the eyes of God: to let a child suffer and die to preserve your reputation, or to become friends with your enemy?”
― Jeremy Courtney, Preemptive Love: Pursuing Peace One Heart at a Time

“For your enemies, keep the door open forever!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot

“The man she despised had his job back. Her job. Damn it to hell. She’d never be able to live with him now.”
― Abby Niles, Britton

“Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Enemies can also be friends.”
― Wendy Zhang