Hostility Quotes · Page 4

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

— Tina Brown

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

— Anton Chekhov

George W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed.

— Sidney Blumenthal

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

— Eknath Easwaran

“Why do I sense hostility on your part, Patrick?” she asks softly, then sips her wine. “Maybe because I’m hostile,” I spit…

— Bret Easton Ellis

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win…

— Sun Tzu

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the…

— Robert Bork

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

— Thomas Jefferson

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

— Barbara Walters

RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have…

— Ambrose Bierce

When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have…

— David Brooks

I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the…

— Michael Richards

“There it was again - the perverse refusal to acknowledge my hostility. She seemed to me like some magical lake in a…

— Zoë Heller

That seems to be crossing some kind of line," I say. :So anything goes?" They both stare at me- Beetee with doubt,…

— Suzanne Collins

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented…

— Leo Rosten

Europe is war. Economic war. It is the increase of hostilities between the countries. Germans are denigrated as being cruel, the Greeks…

— Marine Le Pen

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed…

— Cliff Stearns

“As the high mountains are intersected by deep valleys, as puritanism in one age begets infidelity in the next, as in many…

— Anthony Trollope

Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and…

— Mona Charen

Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth…

— Richard John Neuhaus

The best way to make friends with an audience is to make them laugh. You don't get people to laugh unless they…

— Frank Capra

Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more…

— Anonymous

“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our…

— Kamand Kojouri

I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South…

— Robert E. Lee

In my early twenties the nature of conservatism itself changed. When I identified as a fourteen-year-old conservative, it was closer to what…

— Steve Erickson

The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious.

— Jon Stewart

Most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction

— Cassandra Claire

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the…

— Jon Elster

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when…

— Immanuel Kant

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.”

— George Saintsbury

If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.

— Eugen Weber

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

— Chris Jordan

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any…

— Muhammad Yunus

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

— James Gleick

Refuse this legacy of shame and deceit. Cause the only real truth in your life that you know is hostility.

— Hatebreed

The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion.

— Mathew Staver

It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

— Alec Guinness