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  • What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me. -- Mason Cooley
  • And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure! -- William Watson
  • My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' -- Brian Aldiss
  • Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you. -- Pittacus of Mytilene
  • The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
  • To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations. -- William Quan Judge
  • Nemesis is one of God's handmaids. -- William Rounseville Alger
  • History has a Nemesis for every sin. -- Theodor Mommsen
  • There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis. -- Wallace Stegner
  • Are you the cursed kid Nemesis mentioned?" Leo asked. "But you're a girl." "You're a girl," said the girl. "Excuse me? -- Rick Riordan
  • In spite of Virtue and the Muse, Nemesis will have her dues, And all our struggles and our toils Tighter wind the giant coils. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other."Why didn't you just . . . fade?" Gaia demanded plaintively."You hit me," Nemesis said. It was a little boy's voice coming from Caine's mouthAnd that's not okay." -- Michael Grant
  • Hello, Darkness," Caine said.Gaia's face fell. Her bloody, feral grin faded to be replaced by lips drawn right with fear. Her killer blue eyes widened as she looked at Caine who was no longer Caine."Nemesis," Gaia said. -- Michael Grant
  • Hello, Darkness," Caine said.Gaia's face fell. Her bloody, feral grin faded to be replaced by lips drawn right with fear. Her killer blue eyes widened as she looked at Caine who was no longer Caine."Nemesis," Gaia said." -- Michael Grant
  • And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other. "Why didn't you just . . . fade?" Gaia demanded plaintively. "You hit me," Nemesis said. It was a little boy's voice coming from Caine's mouth. "And that's not okay. -- Michael Grant
  • Nemeses aren't born. They are made. -- Roxane Gay
  • I think Jo Kwon is my nemesis, because he looks like me. -- Jay Park
  • Restlessness is my nemesis/ It's hard to just chill and sit still -- Mos Def
  • And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis. -- Edgar Pangborn
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  • The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
  • How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. -- Erica Jong
  • Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get rid of his nemesis; then there's no story. -- Bill Maher
  • Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started. -- Mary Midgley
  • The limit is the sky, and I live on cloud. And I recognize my nemesis gon try, to put a finish in my shine. But pussy we'll hurt you, life in the power circle. -- Kendrick Lamar
  • I don't really have a nemesis, but I have a series of hundreds of small enemies that fuel me. Everyone I meet I assume is out to get me and that fuels my fire on a daily basis. -- Tina Fey
  • The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • I think the world is ready for people of color to take on more heroic and leading roles, and not always be the sidekick, the nemesis or any sort of stereotype of what a person of color can play typically in a Hollywood picture. -- Jessica Alba
  • He's [Captain Cold] not the big bad, but he's certainly playing a pretty big role. Especially in the early part of the season, he's Barry's main nemesis. There is a very definitive big bad in Season 1 that will become apparent as you watch the show. How's that for saying nothing? -- Andrew Kreisberg
  • Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news. -- Spiro T. Agnew
  • Fusion has been my nemesis. -- Pete La Roca
  • Never sleep in a small tent with your nemesis. -- Tom Chappell
  • The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis. -- David Lyons
  • Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us. -- Sam Tanenhaus
  • He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime. -- David Agus
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  • Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis. -- Gay Talese
  • Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I was so motivated and thought that if I did I wouldn't succeed. -- Marina and the Diamonds
  • No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in. -- Philip K. Dick
  • To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. -- Linus Torvalds
  • Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • It is hard because I love Cornettos, so that will always be a weakness, and I've realised that bread is my nemesis. I believe bread has been sent to destroy me to the core. -- James Corden
  • The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly. -- Jack Nicklaus
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