The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Any Republican, especially any conservative, expects the media to be hostile. That's just the reality of being a Republican. You've got to… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When external and internal forces hostile to the development of socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
I believe we should use all means necessary to prevent the acquisition or fabrication of nuclear weapons by countries or groups hostile… — Sandy Adams Copy Share Image
Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past.… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
We're at 103,000 feet. Looking out over a very beautiful, beautiful world . . . a hostile sky. As you look up… — Joseph Kittinger Copy Share Image
If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself. — Hoagy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
I don't fear hostile atmospheres. In fact, that added pressure serves as an incentive for me to give my very best performance… — Edinson Cavani Copy Share Image
A prince need trouble little about conspiracies when the people are well disposed, but when they are hostile and hold him in… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us. — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the… — E. Howard Hunt Copy Share Image
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Remember: once you have ascertained that you are dealing with hostile intruders, the staircase becomes a free-fire zone. — Massad Ayoob Copy Share Image
“Hostile to the past, impatient of the present, and cheated of the future, we were much like those whom men's justice, or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Arab public opinion does not regard Iran as a hostile entity. In fact it's so supportive of Iran that a majority would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It has been determined by Islamic law that the blood and property of people of Dar Al-Harb (non Muslims) is not protected.… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
For example, it's often forgotten that [Albert ] Camus was extremely hostile [farouche] towards the [Francisco] Franco regime, and right to the… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
![“I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the completest, most highly organized system of prejudices and antagonisms in existence. Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex…” quote by H.G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1e6/h-g-wells-2-1299_antagonism_i-think-that-it-the-church-stands-for-ev_2932425.jpg)
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