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Quotes About Hostility

Then his face changed to a mask of hate.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
We are all at the mercy of the hostility
~ John D. MacDonald
We are all at the mercy of the hostility of the service industry.
~ John D. MacDonald
Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. I did not pray for her, because prayer has no efficacy; I did not cry for her, because only extroverts cry twice; I sat in the silence of that night, that infinite hostility to man, to permanence, to love, remembering her, remembering her.
~ John Fowles
I did not pray for her, because prayer has no efficacy; I did not cry for her, or for myself, because only extroverts cry twice; but I sat in the silence of that night, that infinite hostility to man, to permanence, to love, remembering her, remembering her.
~ John Fowles
We shall never fully understand nature (or ourselves), and certainly never respect it, until we dissociate the wild from the notion of usability - however innocent and harmless the use. For it is the general uselessness of so much of nature that lies at the root of our ancient hostility and indifference to it.
~ John Fowles
that secret hostility natural between brothers, the roots of which --little nursery rivalries--sometimes toughen and deepen as life goes on, and, all hidden, support a plant capable of producing in season the bitterest fruits.
~ John Galsworthy
A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material. Resentment sharpens his eye, hostility hones his killer instinct.
~ John Gregory Dunne
the cutthroat world
~ John Grisham
The battle against good and evil is raging now! Look at your television programming and movie advertisements presenting the occult…the demonic…the satanic…the practice of witchcraft and sorcery in popular books…the open hostility toward Christianity and the revival of anti-Semitism. The fight is on for the hearts and minds of our children in ours homes, our schools, our universities, and our society.
~ John Hagee
The two old secretaries conversed in the manner of hostile but toothless male dogs.
~ John Irving
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY? he wrote. THERE IS SUCH A STUPID 'GET EVEN' MENTALITY-- THERE IS SUCH A SADISTIC ANGER.
~ John Irving
We're going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket …
~ John Julius Norwich
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
~ John Keats
Soviet leaders had to treat the outside world as hostile because this provided the only excuse "for the dictatorship without which they did not know how to rule, for cruelties they did not dare not to inflict, for sacrifices they felt bound to demand.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
You want one civil war, brah?
~ Unknown
In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.
~ Martin Amis
Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play.
~ John Gerstner
Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith.
~ Josh McDowell
Cuando mira a alguien le ve hasta el fondo del alma. No hay ni una gota de hostilidad en ella. Se toma a las personas por lo que son, no por lo que deberían ser. —Observa a Eliza—. Son cualidades poco comunes, ¿verdad?
~ Maggie O'Farrell
We should just bomb them back to the Stone Age.
~ Mal Peet
Sod off and die, Dante,
~ Malorie Blackman
It is always important to realize that people attack what is unfamiliar to them.
~ Marc MacYoung
As soon as the English bishop stepped off the boat he was seized,
~ Unknown