There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.
The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.
We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
When you pass 70, you forget your enemies. You think about the nice people instead.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.
If you had no enemies, you had no fun.
We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.
Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.
The Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated media outlets in Egypt tried to sour the ties between our two countries, but our ties are very strong. No negative stance has been taken by either side against the other. Rumors are being spread by the enemies of our two countries. We pay no attention to them.
In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.