Hostility Quotes

242 quotes by 204 authors

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I… — Jon Meacham
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of… — Anthony de Mello
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. — V.S. Naipaul
There was no hostility at the court when I arrived. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. — Mehmet Oz
Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by… — Wilhelm Reich
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. — Albert Schweitzer
The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred… — John Shelby Spong
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to… — Charles Stanley
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility… — David Foster Wallace
There's hostility to lying, and there should be. — Bob Woodward
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. — Muhammad Yunus
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen. — Robert Bresson
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us… — Richard Wright
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the… — Hermann Hesse
To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth. — Sue Grafton
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. — Ken Keyes Jr.
When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an… — Haim Ginott

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