Quotes About Hostility

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

Granted, he found little to say for the Plains Indians, an uninteresting race in need of humanization, made hideous by nature. He assumed everyone was an enemy until proven otherwise, and expected they would have to be killed, since violence was "the only corrective they understand.

attack n. assuming an offensive posture The military refers to attack as "assuming an offensive posture.

combat n. violence processing (DOD)

I bear the creature no ill-will, but still I hate the very sight of it.

The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.

There was a particular hostility to anything that smacked of price-fixing. One much-repeated story held that the Prophet himself had refused to force merchants to lower prices during a shortage in the city of Medina, on the grounds that doing so would be sacrilegious, since, in a free-market situation, "prices depend on the will of God.

Even in a hostile press conference with hostile questions there was drama, and he could benefit from the drama and the hostility. He mastered the greatest art of television, appearing to be spontaneous without in fact being spontaneous.

The world hates Christian people if they can see God in them.

Great God! This is an awful place.

God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people.

We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.

I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

The dangerous enemies of your species are fundamentalism, intolerance, separatism, extremism, hostility and prejudicial fear, be it religious, atheistic or political.

You had to stand in line to hate him.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

I hope you slip in a puddle of AIDS and crack your head open

I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.