He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Votes: 4
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern. Votes: 4
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. Votes: 4
I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever. Votes: 4
A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience. Votes: 4
Johnny Ringo to me was just the best antagonist that I've ever played, because I played him as a guy who has a death wish and had done everything that he wanted in life. As far as he was concerned, a gun fight was about as exciting as it was going to get. Votes: 4
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist. Votes: 3
No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries. Votes: 3
From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. Votes: 3
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life. Votes: 3
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. Votes: 3
The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists. Votes: 3
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. Votes: 3
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. Votes: 3
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Votes: 3
Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling. Votes: 3
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. Votes: 3
[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens. Votes: 3
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night Votes: 3
He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage. Votes: 3
Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist. Votes: 3
Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. Votes: 3
At last, Mythic feeling and conscious perception no longer confront each other as antagonists but as allies. Passionate nationalism is no longer directed toward tribal, dynastic or theological loyalties, but toward that primal substance, the racially based nationhood itself. Here is the message which will one day melt away all dross, eliminate all that is base, and bring into being all that is noble. Votes: 3
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. Votes: 3
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Votes: 1
In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest. Votes: 1
If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you. Votes: 1
Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity. Votes: 1
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. Votes: 1
I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful. Votes: 1
Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up. Votes: 1
Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans. Votes: 1
People come up to me and say, 'You are such a great bad guy.' The fact is that the antagonist in a movie is usually the most fun to play. You can stretch the role and do so much with it. Votes: 1
The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a martyr; the Church established by law transformed me into an unbeliever and an antagonist. Votes: 1
Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of 'Forever Evil' is to explore that darkness. Votes: 1
Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate. Votes: 0
From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage. Votes: 0
Music attacks my inner ear like an antagonist, it's not my world. Votes: 0
To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ. Votes: 0
We need to learn how to handle critique and how to address an antagonist. Votes: 0
Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous. Votes: 0
I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity. Votes: 0
I think in any movie really the two most interesting parts are the protagonist and the antagonist. Votes: 0
You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world. Votes: 0
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. Votes: 0
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. Votes: 0
On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry. Votes: 0
Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success. Votes: 0
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others. Votes: 0
It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains. Votes: 0
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers. Votes: 0
So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched. Votes: 0
Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself. Votes: 0
From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever. Votes: 0
I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion. Votes: 0
I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story. Votes: 0
In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph. Votes: 0
For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age.And to her, he would always be her infatuation gone horribly wrong. Votes: 0
It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick. Votes: 0
The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
Where you have a villain in the piece or the antagonist, whatever you want to call them, there has to be humanity at the core of it or it's faintly ridiculous. Nobody is just villain through and through. You have to feel something for them.