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Quotes About Antagonism

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.
~ James Patterson
Stevie Kosgrov is my very own somewhat demented Dudley Dursley—if Dudley had muscles and serious BO issues and knew how to jam people's heads down toilets to give them a swirly. Yes
~ James Patterson
off this kid's bad side
~ James Patterson
and House are enemies….
~ James Patterson
Once you start rooting against somebody, you're always going to look for the negative in everything they do.
~ Lane Kiffin
And what voices! A sort of over-fedness, a fatuous self-confidence, a constant bah-bahing of laughter about nothing, above all a sort of heaviness & richness combined with a fundamental ill-will—people who, one instinctively feels, without even being able to see them, are the enemies of anything intelligent or sensitive or beautiful.
~ Thomas E. Ricks
Pride will spit in pride's face.
~ Thomas Fuller
There's a new dawn in America! It isn't enough just to disagree with your opponent anymore. True patriots hate their fucking guts!
~ Tim Dorsey
A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
~ Kurt Cobain
I get great satisfaction nowadays when people come up and say 'I used to hate you when I was little' or 'you used to make me mad' - well that was the desired effect.
~ William Regal
Não há vida, por mais jovem que seja, que não provoque ódios.
~ Olivier Rolin
I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate. – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me. Bobby
~ D.J. MacHale
People who want to hate you can find something in you they don't like. They have a talent for doing that.
~ Walter Dean Myers
They're strangers but they still find reasons to hurt each other.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Homeric Greece and everything that philosophy after Plato stood for was, however superficially cordial and continuous, in fact deeply antagonistic, if often at the unconscious rather than the conscious level.
~ Walter J. Ong
Some philosophical theologians seem to think that there is real antagonism between love and justice in the divine nature, or that these attributes are incompatible or inharmonious. This is not so in man, why then should it be so in God?
~ Charles Hodge
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
But the point is that one of television's greatest contributions is that it brought murder back into the home where it belongs. Seeing a murder on television can be good therapy. It can help work off one's antagonism. And, if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
~ Alfred Hitchcock, 1965
I introduced his head to the corner of the railing.
~ Hajime Kanzaka
Petermann's staunchest enemy in Great Britain was Clements R. Markham of the Royal Geographical Society. Markham had come to regard Petermann as a charlatan and a windbag.
~ Hampton Sides
His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity.
~ Harold Holzer
Don't bat your lashes at me, Christa. I know you hate the very sight of me," he said flatly.
~ Heather Graham
we are all inevitably someone's adversary.
~ Lawrence Freedman
Everyone has enemy; you will learn all that so soon as you are little older, and without cause she is mine
~ Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan