Unfriendly Quotes

47 quotes by 46 authors

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly. — Julie Burchill
Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one… — Benjamin Franklin
The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its… — Mikhail Bakunin
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. — John Dewey
It is because the world is so full of suffering, that your happiness is a gift. It is because the world is so full of… — Robert Holden
It is hard to be an apprentice to an unfriendly professor, or even one whose warmth or tolerance wears thin when the going gets hard… — Robert Audi
For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want… — Max Stirner
While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked… — Mark Driscoll
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of… — Rebecca Solnit
If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom; if… — Mencius
Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice… — Peter Block
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. — William Cowper
The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is… — Peter Mayle
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at… — Walter Bagehot
The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I could no longer afford to be jealous or unfriendly, because, as soon as I was, a bandage came down over my eyes, and I… — Jacques Lusseyran
As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful… — Charles Kellogg
Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth… — Walter Scott
New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances.… — Daniel Hannan
In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in… — Carey Mulligan

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