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Quotes About Antagonism

OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.
~ Dave Winer
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
~ Anne Lamott
Some people are antagonized by the truth.
~ Julia Roberts
how "intense mental activity hinders perception." They found that it wasn't just emotional arousal that altered the size of the pupil: Mental effort had the same effect. There was, quite possibly, as they put it, "an antagonism between thinking and perceiving.
~ Michael Lewis
The professors argued that Netscape courted disaster from the start, by taunting Microsoft. "Mooning the Giant
~ Michael Lewis
Competition is a sin.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.
~ Stuart Hall
People love to hate the gravedigger.
~ Kathy Reichs
You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.
~ Kevin Drum
I think it's fun to love-to-hate people.
~ Kristin Chenoweth
Trump just loved to pit people against each other.
~ Bob Woodward
If these were indications of new love, as Sergei expected they were, then he was not surprised. All that scraping and arguing, the teasing and playful antagonism, could only mean on thing. It was a sure sign of attraction.
~ Suzanne Weyn
That's tough, Joan, I said, picking up my book. Because I don't like you. You make me puke, if you want to know.
~ Sylvia Plath
I like you.' 'That's tough, Joan,' I said, picking up my book. 'Because I don't like you. You make me puke, if you want to know.
~ Sylvia Plath
Alabastards like a contest.   Jack Russells only like a fight.
~ T.R. Pearson
The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.
~ T.S. Eliot
You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.
~ Tamora Pierce
las otras dos parejas vivían ya ese tiempo en que la charla en grupo liberaba antagonismos, ventila diferencias que la intimidad acalla.
~ Julio Cortazar
And I felt antagonism for all these things when I was with La Maga, for we loved each other in a sort of dialectic of magnet and iron filings, attack and defense, handball and wall.
~ Julio Cortazar
I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
~ Terry McMillan
I never liked D-X since they invaded WCW.
~ Eric Bischoff
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
~ Harold Nicolson
A rivalry is me and James DeGale. That is ingrained in people now.
~ George Groves
I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.
~ Sean Connery