“If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Helen was lost and isolated, unable to participate with the rest of
the group. She was outside the circle with no sense of any connection
to a Creator, and no concept of what unconditional love might feel
like. If any type of God had indeed created her, then that Deity had
made a mistake too cruel to forgive.”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

“Her body faded away so far, she almost lost her connection to it. Utter
blackness enveloped her, shutting off all warmth. All light. All love. All
support. All hope. She was pinned, alone, naked, and freezing before a
beast so terrifying she struggled to avert her gaze but could not.
Horns arose from the top of what had to be a head. Fangs protruded
obscenely from a frowning hole that must have been a mouth.
Unsheathed claws threatened instant evisceration. Horrifying eyes.
Two cesspits of black fury in which red flames churned like burning
blood. They bore down on Helen, intensifying the pressure on her to
the point of agony.
Inside her head a message played over and over. You are helpless.
Helen’s fragmented thoughts spun wildly. What to do? How to stop
this nightmare?
The wretched voice roared again, like nails clashing against slate.
“Give me the stone! Now!”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

“...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.”
― Criss Jami

“A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.”
― John Lanchester, Capital

“Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“If we demand perfection from ourselves we are not living in the real world...The inherent problem in the relationship between the ideal & the real is that the ideal judges the real as unacceptable and brings down condemnation and wrath on the real. This sets up an adversarial relationship between the two and like all adversaries, they move further and further apart.”
― Henry Cloud, Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future

“But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“When God's favour and Godly flavour is in you, your haters will taste wisdom and the only thing they can do is to regret ever tasting a sweet thing.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The self-proclaimed advocate of impartiality does not want to commit himself to either course of action. If pushed toward one
camp, he seeks refuge in the other. Men always find it distasteful to admit that the “reasons” on both sides of a dispute are equally valid—which is to say that violence operates without reason.
Tragedy begins at that point where the illusion of impartiality, as well as the illusions of the adversaries, collapses.”
― René Girard, Violence and the Sacred

“The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.”
― Alain de Botton

“Sometimes to destroy the monsters that we face, we have to come against them in the same way that they have come against us. But if I do so in the power of God, I might have come against them in the same way, but I have come against them with a very kind of different power. And in that sense, nothing is the same.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Envy can turn friends into adversaries.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“As soon as you start fulfilling your purpose your adversaries will appear”
― Sunday Adelaja

“When you are staring at the face of such a formidable adversary as tobacco cigarette addiction, it can help significantly to have some powerful weapons in your arsenal. Knowledge is a remarkably powerful weapon against cigarette addiction.”
― Earl Chinnici, Maybe You Should Move Those Away From You

“Do not allow the adversaries to hinder you from fulfilling what God has planned for you”
― Sunday Adelaja

“If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Sometimes to destroy the monsters that we face, we have to come against them in the same way that they have come against us. But if I do so in the power of God, I might have come against them in the same way, but I have come against them with a very different kind of power. And in that sense, nothing is the same.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If  we  look  at  life,  all  we  see  is  pain,  heartache, or  devastation,  trying  to  tell  us  it  will  never  get better;  that  this  is  as  good  as  it  gets. Hope  is  gone  for  you.  Do  not  listen  to  that  voice, because  Jesus  had  paid  for  our  salvation. - The Perfect Storm”
― Chimnese Davids, No Greater Love Than This

“He had a wrinkled, pointy face like a rubber glove puppet with the fingers drawn together.”
― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre