Quotes About Animosity

I had always previously really fed off of negativity and enjoyed being the guy who everybody hated.

There was something in the shape of his fingers that I hated.

but my schadenfreude was dampened by the knowledge that if Detective Hernandez didn't have it in for me before, she sure as shootin' did now.

Another plague year would reconcile all these differences; a close conversing with death, or with diseases that threaten death, would scum off the gall from our tempers, remove the animosities among us, and bring us to see with differing eyes than those which we looked on things with before.

I hate that mouse

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

It is useless to try to adjudicate a long-standing animosity by asking who started it or who is the most wrong. The only sufficient answer is to give up the animosity and try forgiveness, to try to love our enemies and to talk to them and (if we pray) to pray for them. If we can't do any of that, then we must begin again by trying to imagine our enemies' children who, like our children, are in mortal danger because of enmity that they did not cause.

I have often wondered that persons who make boast of professing the Christian religion—namely, love, joy, peace, temperance, and charity to all men—should quarrel with such rancorous animosity, and display daily toward one another such bitter hatred, that this, rather than the virtues which they profess, is the readiest criterion of their faith.

In one of the most remarkable studies of the transmission of ideas over time, the economists Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth found evidence that animosity endured generation after generation, for as long as six hundred years. Voigtländer

Sometimes you just don't like somebody

Funny enough, you know who I used to really like in Lion King? It was Scar.

I know I'm hated. Or rather, that people struggle with dislike for me.

There's no discipline or strategy, nothing depersonalized: its mayhem and each side intensely hates the other.

Good luck," Nautilus said. "You too," said Turtle. "I hope you die," Avalanche said to Peril.

He could put her safely back in the category of "Despicable, Conniving NightWings I Hate.

Oh, the odious wench. How I wish I were rid of her. I have always loathed women, from clew to earring; hook, line and sinker; root and branch. I always said this would happen, you remember; I was against it from the start. Damn it for a flibbertigibbet, the hussy.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

It always seems to be important to have at least one person in the vicinity to hate.

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

You really hate me don't you?" he asks, his smile growing "Almost as you hate me," I say

You really hate me, don't you?" he asks, his smile growing. "Almost as much as you hate me

Jude, Cardan thought, hating even the shape of her name. Jude.

It is possible to take against someone, then continue to loathe them out of pure prejudice.

Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before.