Quotes About Hostility

Israel owed some measure of its success to the Arabs, to their hostility that helped galvanize an otherwise factious society.

He had not spoken to a desirable woman who was not at some level his enemy or a whore since 1944.

But now reporters came to the story with the lead fixed in their minds; they saw their job as proving what they already knew. They didn't want information so much as evidence of villainy. In this mode, they were openly skeptical of your point of view, since they assumed you were just being evasive. They proceeded from a presumption of universal guilt, in an atmosphere of muted hostility and suspicion.

My father used to claim that inanimate objects hate us and plot our downfall behind our backs. He was probably right.

Competition is a sin.

Ellison was prominent on the lecture circuit even in the Black Aesthetic days of the Sixties when his defiantly pro-American and prickly-proud intellectual act met with some hostility.

He was going to rip Plott apart, piece by piece.

sort of wail that leads to fighting with fangs and claws.

Isn't it amazing how many people in the world hate you? Most of them you will never even meet, and yet they really don't like you at all. All the people who write software at Microsoft hate you, and so do most of the people who answer phones at Expedia.

the Trump election had rekindled the divide in the country. There was a more hostile relationship with the media. The culture wars were reinvigorated. There was a racist tinge. Trump accelerated it.

Porter saw it from up close—perhaps as close as anyone on the staff except Hope Hicks—the Trump election had rekindled the divide in the country. There was a more hostile relationship with the media. The culture wars were reinvigorated. There was a racist tinge. Trump accelerated it.

You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

Like adamant she stared down at him, and some were certain they beheld her abhorence of him now, naked as swords in her gaze, as if she might kill him all over again.

I will shove my fist so far down your fucking throat that you'll be shitting my fingernails for a week.

Il en fut de [la] guerre [de sécession] comme de toutes les guerres. Les civils se haïssent, les soldats se battent. Seuls les civils demeurent irréconciliables.

The state may not establish a 'religion of secularism' in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus 'preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.

I never liked D-X since they invaded WCW.

There is no common ground between us and Iran.

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

A rivalry is me and James DeGale. That is ingrained in people now.

Horrid Henry could not stand Moody Margaret for more than two

No. Resentment is part of envy.

The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and the protection of St. Ignatius invoked against all contingent evils, but especially against bears, which, like the fiery dragons of old, seemed to cherish unconquerable hostility to the Holy Church. ("The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo").

I can't have him at my place, that would never work. We'd murder each other.