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Hostility Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- 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…
- 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…
- RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
More Hostility Quotes
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and… — Thomas Paine
- The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.… — Thomas Jefferson
- Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute. — Hassan Nasrallah
- It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from… — Bobby Darin
- It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the… — Benjamin Spock
- Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal… — Rick Riordan
- Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody. — Peabo Bryson