Hostility Quotes

242 quotes by 204 authors

Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and… — Henri Nouwen
If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace. — Dalai Lama
You practice forgiveness for two reasons: to let others know that you no longer wish to be in a state of hostility with them and… — Wayne Dyer
Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God. — R C Sproul
[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others. — Tacitus
The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical profession are actively hostile against vitamins and minerals... They are out to get the… — William Proxmire
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in… — Cliff Stearns
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by… — Ambrose Bierce
MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment… — Ambrose Bierce
The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat… — Terry Tempest Williams
RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead. — Ambrose Bierce
A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with… — Ishmael Reed
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and… — Neal Stephenson
More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. — Robert Menzies
War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities. — Bela Kiraly
This is what many people in the movie industry don't get: when you express hostility to conservatives, many Americans feel that you're expressing hostility to… — Michael Medved
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of… — Carl Jung
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. — Marcel Proust
It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a… — Washington Irving
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men,… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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