Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration. — Lance Secretan Copy Share Image
“they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.” — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“When we feel powerless in a hostile world we can at least practice quelling the enmity in our minds.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. — John Keats Copy Share Image
If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility, he learn s to fight. If a… — Dorothy Nolte Copy Share Image
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started. — Seishiro Itagaki Copy Share Image
Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent… — Jim Perrin Copy Share Image
If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
If, as we decided in Munich, there will be a cessation of hostilities and humanitarian assistance can flow into Syria - then… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Recent studies at the Public Health Institute in California confirm that hostility and resentment tear down your immune system and double your… — Andrew Matthews Copy Share Image
You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Everybody was pissed off in those days, but there were no socially acceptable outlets for hostility. "Hostile" was a word you heard… — Albert Goldman Copy Share Image
I have a terrible time during elections. I am way too politically involved. I absolutely never argue politics with anyone, as it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Asking isn't what I had in mind,” Sicarius said. “Yes, I can see that.” Amaranthe planted a hand on his chest, fingers… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“one moment they may seem calm and serene and deeply in love with their partner, but at the next, they may be… — Ross Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others. — Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Night camp wasn't much better. The air was thick with hostility,sideways glances, and accusing stares.” — Kat Martin Copy Share Image
Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex. — Myrna Loy Copy Share Image
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
