Quotes About Hostility

We probably will never be free from all our hostilities, and there even may be days and weeks in which our hostile feelings dominate our emotional life to such a degree that the best thing we can do is to keep distance, speak little to others and not write letters, except to ourselves.

Although after many years of living we often feel more lonely, hostile and filled with illusions than when we had hardly a past to reflect upon, we also know better than before that all these pains have deepened and sharpened our urge to reach out to a solitary, hospitable and prayerful mode of existence.

If a man has nobody to punish him when he feels he deserves it, he starts punishing himself. It is this inward-turned hostility which causes the depression [...]

though envy is at best a very malignant passion, yet is its bitterness greatly heightened by mixing with contempt towards the same object;

I'll tell you what: the most hostile and angry trash talker ever is Gary Payton.

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

It is insanity to expect to live in peace when always we are getting ready for war.

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

Richard Lewontin comments . . . To be convinced that all behavior on the part of others, without distinction, is hostile, is a form of mental illness.57

Entente hostility toward Soviet Russia, in other words, no more caused Bolshevik Western antagonism than Entente accommodation would have caused a friendly, hands-off Bolshevik disposition.

to be a high-school English teacher in modern Britain is to be a bad comedian in a hostile club. You have to deliver your terrible material six times a day to a crowd that would rather be somewhere else. And the heckling is vicious and it never ever stops.

I've had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it's not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you!

On patrol, he had sometimes felt that he was just as likely to be shot in the back by an Afghan police officer as to be killed by a Taliban insurgent. There were always a handful of Afghan comrades alongside him who had a hard stare that Bordin felt as hostility.

If I ever wondered why so many people are so hostile to the tangible visible incarnations of the permeating invisible features of postmodern society, I need to look no further: according to populist narratives perpetuated by the media convergence, technology is the domain of experts who, having the wisdom of mini-deities invested with all the power of the corporate state, are not - cannot - be human.

If there's one thing Eagles and Giants fans can agree on, it's a mutual disdain for Skip Bayless.

When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other.

Santo had the right to love them both equally, without feeling the pressure of having one parent's dislike of the other to corrupt his view - a point brought home to them both by a stern grandmother, who had found herself flung into the role of referee between them at a time when their mutual hostility had been running at its highest.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

El peligro del odio consiste en que nos ata al adversario en un estrecho abrazo

Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.

Why do I sense hostility on your part, Patrick?" she asks softly, then sips her wine. "Maybe because I'm hostile," I spit out. "Maybe because you sense this.