Old enemies Quotes

“If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.”

“If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.”

“Throughout the history of the Kensington Rune Stone in the twentiethcentury, memories of an ancient battle were repeatedly evoked toaddress the concerns about more recent battles. The skræling enduredas a convenient symbol of the threats posed by secularization, urbanization,and diversification. As sociologist Richard K. Fenn observes,“Any society is a reservoir of old longings and ancient hatreds. Theseneed to be understood, addressed, resolved and transcended if a societyis to have a future that is different from its past.” Furthermore, whena society does not adequately confront its past, it perpetually finds “anew target that resembles but also differs from the source of originalconflict.” If Fenn is correct, old enemies will continue to emerge inthe face of new enemies unless Minnesotans can understand, address,resolve, and transcend the state’s original sin: the unjust treatment ofthe region’s first inhabitants.”

“Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wolloff”

“Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wollof”

“We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.”

“And even if fairies built a nest in the bottom of my garden and it should turn out that I have to live for a thousand years, there's not one of them when I'll be of a mind to trust you.”