Inhospitable Quotes
23 quotes by 23 authors
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We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions,…
— David Foreman
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Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us make things appear…
— Luca Parmitano
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I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.
— Theodore Levitt
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Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies…
— Jimmy Carter
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If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its…
— Thomas Berry
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In trans women's eyes, I see a wisdom that can only come from having to fight for your right to be recognized as female, a…
— Julia Serano
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The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
— Julius Caesar Scaliger
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It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to…
— Etty Hillesum
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I know enough about the moon to know how unpleasant and inhospitable it is. . . . I know enough about Mars to know that…
— Wally Schirra
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Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.
— George Whitman
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Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time...
— Washington Irving
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The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop…
— George F. Kennan
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When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark…
— Brian Greene
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My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able…
— Bear Grylls
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For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh'…
— Sylvia Earle
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
— Orison Swett Marden
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in…
— Salman Rushdie
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Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
— Albert Schweitzer
Who Wrote These Inhospitable Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 23 Inhospitable Quotes as follows: