Nemesis Quotes

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is ‘Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.’

What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.

Restlessness is my nemesis. It’s hard to just chill and sit still.

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.

Russian government was in contact with multiple [Donald] Trump campaign sources while they were doing [attacks]. Russian nemesis in the American government, U.S. State Department, CIA, are not faring well since Donald Trump came to power.

I think Jo Kwon is my nemesis, because he looks like me.

Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.

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?

Wonderful, Annabeth thought. Her own mother, the most levelheaded Olympian, was reduced to a raving, vicious scatterbrain in a subway station. And, of all the gods who might help them, the only ones not affected by the Greek-Roman schism seemed to be Aphrodite, Nemesis and Dionysus. Love, revenge, wine. Very helpful.

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.

My nemesis – my downfall, if you will – was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.

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.

In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
Nemesis will have her dues,
And all our struggles and our toils
Tighter wind the giant coils.

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.

If you really hate me, you should at least have the courtesy to take out a piece of paper and write it down and mail it to me. If you’re a worthy nemesis, I want to see your handwriting. I want to see your name and your address, and if you don’t have the guts to give me those, then you’re not a worthy nemesis.

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.

The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.

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.

Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.

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.

Are you the cursed kid Nemesis mentioned?” Leo asked. “But you’re a girl.” “You’re a girl,” said the girl. “Excuse me?

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.

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.

And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn’t an enemy, he was a nemesis.

History has a Nemesis for every sin.