Quotes About Hostility

It was male, of course; menace is always male. ("Nightmare")

Does one approach the Scriptures (or any other influential document or collection of documents in the history of world civilization) with a hermeneutics of consent or a hermeneutics of suspicion? Christians have not done well in trying to read literature from other religions empathetically, and atheists and adherents of other world religions today increasingly approach the Bible with preexisting hostility.

Every morning, I take a deep breath and then go online to discover what new insult or smear has been thrown in my direction. Whether it's tweets, blogposts or comment threads, the abuse is as relentless as it is vicious.

When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not choose to participate. Rather than build character, bullying can cause children to become anxious, fearful, unhappy, and even cause them to be physically sick.

I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.

Out with it, Bayning," he said coldly. "Did you come here merely to complain, or is there some point to all this?" "I'm taking her away from here. Away from you!" Harry gave a chilling smile. "I'll send you to hell first." - Harry & Bayning

Because never had I hated another human being more than I hated Paratore in that moment.

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone.

My father does not like you. I suspect he wishes to kill you." "I get that a lot.

I want five minutes alone with Dresden." "No offense, Nick," I said, "but that's about five minutes longer than I want to spend with you.

In one guise or another, Indians always are. Again, it is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has its price. People who respect themselves are willing to accept the risk that the Indians will be hostile, that the venture will go bankrupt, that the liaison may not turn out to be one in which every day is a holiday because you're married to me. They are willing to invest something of themselves; they may not play at all, but when they do play, they know the odds.

Being mean early in the morning and I was already mad.

I wouldn't yell 'fire' at that slimeball if his ass was in flames.

Every hostile campaign of the enemy is a public testimony to the stupidity and wickedness of the non-Christians, and in contrast, the perfect coherence and righteousness of God, so that in every instance God confirms to the elect his own wisdom and derives glory for himself out of the situation.

This is the problem, when women start talking among themselves, they come up with conclusions that defy all reason, and let's not pretend that, deep down, it doesn't stem from a profound hostility toward the masculine libido.

Our whisper woke no clocks, We kissed and I was glad At everything you did, Indifferent to those Who sat with hostile eyes In pairs on every bed, Arms round each other's neck, Inert and vaguely sad.

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

Jesus' death, he said, broke down the temple barriers, dismantling the dividing walls of hostility that had separated categories of people. Grace found a way.

He bares his yellow teeth in a smile at me. 'Everyone is always our enemy,' he says. 'But right now, we are winning.

ignorance of isolation breeds unwarranted hostility.

Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.