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Quotes About Hostility

I was so shocked that I could hardly eat. Here was a woman who had been nothing but friendly to me until now. I had been a model tenant—no noise, no visitors, no late nights, and I helped with the household chores. But in her mind I was now condemned to hell, and therefore she could have no contact with me in case my sin somehow came to roost on her. I was glad this wasn't my idea of God or religion!
~ Rhys Bowen
If people notice that you have changed, you should praise God and tell them that it was Jesus' work, for they will gain what you have, not by admiring you, but only by believing on Jesus. In some cases, redirecting praise in this manner will result in people who previously admired you becoming hostile; the world hated Christ, and it will often hate a faithful witness to Him. But we must accept this risk so as to bear testimony not to ourselves but to Christ.
~ Richard D. Phillips
He did not like me and I did not like him, though I tried harder than he to conceal my dislike.
~ Richard Wright
Die,human! Die, silly polluting nasty person!
~ Rick Riordan
She felt no interest in anything about her. The street, the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic.
~ Kate Chopin
They call you Jatt? They call you Jutt? I'm gonna toss you in a rut! Then I'm gonna punch you in the gut!
~ Kathryn Lasky
They fought as though the most important thing was to damage each other as much as possible.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Why was I so hostile to Moira B. that day when she was, really, a natural ally? What it was, I suppose, is that Moira was suggesting she and I cross some line together, and I wasn't prepared for that yet.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
There had been a wonderful atmosphere of liberation and camaraderie. The Russians hated it.
~ Ken Follett
quienes le trataban de forma hostil lo hacían debido a su propia debilidad.
~ Ken Follett
It was stupid, but people needed someone to hate
~ Ken Follett
He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted angrily, instead of seeing the weakness and givin reassurance
~ Ken Follett
He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted angrily, instead of seeing the weakness and giving reassurance
~ Ken Follett
They are in contact on a high-voltage wavelength of hate...
~ Ken Kesey
My near'st and dearest enemy.
~ William Shakespeare
We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
War is at its best barbarism.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
For those who were openly hostile toward her, no explanation would be understood.
~ William W. Johnstone
People learn to be hostile,disparaging and manipulative because it works for them.these people expect you to react in certain ways to their style,because in that way they win.if you allow yourself to be sucked into their expectations,you have not only let them get away but you are bound to feel frustrated,helpless and eventuall your bad side of nature will reached its climax.
~ Windy dryden
Western men are openly hostile toward the Christian faith, I believe most are simply ambivalent toward it. What's more troubling, the men who do go to church seem to become more passive and detached by the
~ David Murrow
He hates me and I hate him, but I hate him more, more and more-
~ David Peace
he thought that human beings are, by and large, rather nasty. They can rarely be bothered to help one another, he noted, but are quick to seize any opportunity to do each other down.9 Moreover there was a bias in the world of which he had become acutely aware: most people were ignorant, and nothing provoked the hostility of the ignorant as much as people who knew more than they did.10 Although
~ David Wootton