Quotes about Adversary

I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine - not Russia - attacked us in 2016. Russia is an adversary not just of the United States but of freedom-loving people everywhere. Right now, we don't have any leadership from White House to try to understand what our principal foreign adversary was doing to interfere with our elections, to, in effect, destabilize our democracy. So, I think this is - this should be of interest to any American. Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment. While Russia remains an adversary, we will seriously endanger the lives of Americans if we ignore opportunities to work with Russian intelligence agencies in the fight against terrorism <...> We continue to work together on issues such as aviation security and preventing the return of foreign fighters both to Russia and to America <...> We resolutely defend America during such contacts, we do not stand on ceremony, and we never will. Avatar opponent. (Anatoly Yurkin) The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in challenging; it was ineptitude - a grey spread of cotton that seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. She stood, disarmed, before the riddle of what made this possible, she could find no answer. The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary. The Adversary seldom loses when you play on his playing field. It's called the home court advantage. Beware the wrath of a patient adversary. China is a rising adversary. So one of the things we have to do if we want China's support is to push back on China. Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. Real disciples absorb the fiery darts of the adversary by holding aloft the quenching shield of faith with one hand, while holding to the iron rod with the other (see Eph. 6:16; 1 Ne. 15:24; D&C 27:17). There should be no mistaking; it will take both hands! We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary. God has not given us the spirit of fear. That comes from the adversary. You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary. Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not. But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam. From the beginning, it had a primary adversary: the emancipation of women. With more men now coming to us from this cultural sphere, and some additionally brutalized by civil wars, this is a problem. We cannot simply ignore it. The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary. For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so. It is ludicrous to believe that he meant nuclear weapons can be used. It is truly fearful to see how the mainstream media in the west can construct an adversary and that there are so few dissenting voices. You have to work more than your adversary. Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone to show us our errors. I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!! We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted. To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine. We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary. A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary. We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.