A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

— Phyllis McGinley

At least I’m the one leaving. It’s so much easier to leave than to be left.

— Stefan Emunds

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

Don't make such decisions whose bad results make you look like you are your own enemy.

— Amit Kalantri

Even the kindest saint does have their own adversary

— Joshua De Vera Bautista

He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.

— Donna Lynn Hope

Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.

— Stefan Emunds

I am not stopping till my enemies become my friends.

— Amit Kalantri

I didn't hit other people or hit purposefully, I just hit. Some object would be at fault. My anger was at myself, every time, all vanity. As an adolescent I was a slammer of drawers and a packer of suitcases. I was responsible for scenes. Control came imperfectly to all of us: we reached it at different times of life, frustrated, shot into indignation, by different things - some that are grown out of, and others not. Of all my strong emotions, anger is the one least responsible for any of my work. I don't write out of anger. For one thing, simply as a fiction writer, I am minus an adversary - except, of course, that of time - and for another thing, the act of writing in itself brings me happiness.

— Eudora Welty

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.

— Michel de Montaigne