Chris Cleave Quotes

A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten.

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

There will never be a reunion, as I will never do anything with an asshole like Will Smith. He is still an egomaniac and has not grown up. This constant reunion thing will never ever happen in my lifetime unless there is an apology, which he doesn't know the word.

When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge.

Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.

Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.