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Quotes About Antagonism

There's the opposite of love at first sight. There are people walking the earth that the moment you meet them, you want to punch them and keep punching them.
~ Richard Kadrey
Hay aspectos en los que sigue aferrado a esa vieja rivalidad. ¿Es cierto que odiaba a Lewis? «Bueno, era mi rival, así que no quiero ser amigo de alguien a quien tengo que vencer», explica Johnson. «Fue mi primer y último gran rival. El único».
~ Richard Moore
Never leave a guy alive who'd like to see you dead.
~ Richard Stark
You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I've got to kill someone, it might as well be you.
~ Richelle Mead
Hey." She said, looking up from an open book propped up on one knee. She brushed a few strands of pale hair out of her face. Her boyfriend, Christian, lay on the floor near her, his head propped up on her other knee. He greeted me by way of a nod. Concidering the antagonism the sometimes flared up between us, that was almost on par with him giving me a bear hug.
~ Richelle Mead
Adolph Knipe moved his feet on the carpet, and he watched the two small white hands of his chief, the nervous fingers playing with a paper clip, unbending it, straightening out the hairpin curves. He didn't like the man's hands. He didn't like his face either, with the tiny mouth and the narrow purple-coloured lips. It was unpleasant the way only the lower lip moved when he talked.
~ Roald Dahl
Lift that scimitar against me, you Hyrkanian pig and I'll gut you where you stand!
~ Robert E. Howard
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
~ Robert F. Kennedy
Jenks snorted, crumpling up the empty bag and throwing it away. "You can help Rachel by dropping dead." "That's still an option," said Ivy.
~ Kim Harrison
Eloy turned to her, his lip curling when he saw her face, but I hadn't won anything in our verbal pissing match. "Can we please have some blood?" Winona awkwardly flipped him off with her thick fingers, and I almost applauded.
~ Kim Harrison
You've been nothing but a pain in the ass," she said as she grabbed her purse, just about the only thing she had since we'd kidnapped her. "No wonder Rachel doesn't like you. I don't like you, and I like everyone.
~ Kim Harrison
Okay, now you really don't need to do that blushing virgin bit anymore—I got to ogle your body at my leisure for hours. Matter of fact, I had so long, I could have painted you, instead of just taking pictures with my sat-phone." He held up his phone with a wink. "I loathe you," she said, precariously bending to collect her toiletries and clothes. As she headed for the bathroom, she gave him the evilest eye she could muster….
~ Kresley Cole
In our first meeting; you skewered me with your sword. In other words: you started it.
~ Kresley Cole
And as much as he'd been watching me, he'd been studying Jack. Earlier, when we'd been forced to slow on a washed-out mountain pass, Jack had finally snapped, "What the hell are you looking at?" "Something about you is not right." "You got a lot of nerve to be saying that about me, Grim Reaper.
~ Kresley Cole
Pareces sentir curiosidad por él." "Es mi enemigo. Es una buena idea aprender sobre él.
~ Kresley Cole
A sheer displeasure to meet you, Munro MacRieve.
~ Kresley Cole
Dont expect your enemies to ever love you, or even like you, only respect you
~ Imi Lichtenfeld
And the trap into which the deformed person finally falls does not lie in his resolving the state of antagonism between himself and the world, but instead takes the form of his completely approving of this antagonism. That's why a deformed person can never really be cured.
~ Yukio Mishima
But a universal politics must not make false promises either: after capitalism comes plenitude, the absence of alienation, and communal harmony: postpolitical 2.0. No. Antagonism is a constitutive element of our being. We are strangers, neighbors, and even enemies to ourselves. Post-capitalism will not be envy-free, ressentiment-free. A more just society predicated on the disavowal of symbolic castration (lack), envy, or ressentiment is a recipe for failure of the worse kind.
~ Zahi Zalloua
It would be fun," Skulduggery nodded. "I like kicking Wreath in the face. I haven't had a chance to do it nearly as much as I'd like.
~ Derek Landy
Serpine: No, my old enemy, I think for the moment anyway, we're all alone. And you have something I want Skulduggery: A winning sense of style?
~ Derek Landy
Pleasnt tilted his head curiously. "Scaramouch? Scaramouch Van Dreg? Is that you?" Scaramouch smiled nastily. "Oh yes. You have fallen into the clutches of your deadliest enemy." "What are you doing here?
~ Derek Landy
I don't know you," Gallow said. "I've just met you. Already I want to hurt you.
~ Derek Landy
So their cheerleaders are ugly, their football players are wimps, and they're our archrivals because why?
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes