"Failure is a friend if we can see past the face of the foe that we project on it."
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
"And one day when you wake up, you happen to realise that your battle isn’t with the man you had got into a brawl with the other day, it isn’t with a friend turned foe, it isn’t with those parents who ..."
- Chirag Tulsiani
"Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?"
- J.M. Coetzee
"In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story."
"And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe."
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard
"Don’t fight with your enemy’s brains, fight with his heart"
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue on your merry way and may our paths n..."
- Virginia Alison
"As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his e..."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you need to find out who is your friend among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict."
- Toba Beta
"A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes."
- Alireza Salehi Nejad