The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

Envy was constantly with him; the Enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

Those who yearn for the defeat of their enemy are said to wish that he might write a book.

Besides, that thing was waiting for him. Waiting for him —

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

We are waiting for you, the Red Plague To save us from the Black Course To be our salvation Before tearing our homeland into parts We are waiting for you The power of crowd brutished under your cruel rule We are waiting for you to crush us with your foot of mass of ideas and domination We are waiting for you, an eternal enemy You bloody murder of many our brothers We are waiting for you not to take revenge But to welcome you with bread on threshold We are waiting for you but you're still delaying You are afraid of us and we know about it You want us to be cut down on the ruins of Warsaw You are awaiting our extermination. But know that from our tombs The new victorious Poland will arise And you, red ruler of the enraged mob, will not strut on this land

He was a bad thing waiting for a worse thing to happen.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...

[the Devil]... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it...

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.

The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents — or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.

my opinion is that if an enemy comes to your home, you don't just sit back and hope that he will leave peacefully. You have to force the enemy out.