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Quotes about Foe

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.
— Brother Andrew
Sharing the same blood with England, and yet her proved foe in two wars—not wholly inclined at bottom to forget an old grudge—intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition, civilized in externals but a savage at heart, America is, or may yet be, the Paul Jones of nations. Regarded in this indicatory
— Herman Melville
There is another telling aspect to a show of naval might. This is its temerity. A fleet carries with it the audacity of its enterprise. The stay-at-home foe is stricken by its sudden apparition. The enemy beholding a navy advancing upon him out of the aether is struck with dread, as Priam himself when Achilles' black ships beached upon the plain of Troy.
— Steven Pressfield
Though the Christian has no immunity from death and no claim to perpetual life on this planet, death is to him a friend rather than a foe, the beginning rather than the end, another step on the pathway to heaven rather than a leap into a dark unknown.
— Billy Graham
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
— John F. Kennedy
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
— John F. Kennedy
Before mine eyes in opposition sitsGrim Death my son and foe.
— John Milton
What boots it at one gate to make defense,And at another to let in the foe?
— John Milton
If you are the heel, and if you are doing your job right, you are most hated.
— Roddy Piper
Heresy is the foe of countenance
— Ernest Hemingway
I have played my fair share of bad guys, or at least the nemesis.
— Eric Johnson
Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.
— AW Tozer