Hostile Quotes

• Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fear, Inspiration, Power

  Cited in Heinl, Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966).

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• Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

  Socrates

  Clever, Friendly, Ridiculous

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• people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from me, they are the ones least likely to learn that my life isn't half so dismal as they assume.

  Nancy Mairs

  Fate, People, Half

  Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

  Jennifer Harrison

  Harsh, Amount

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• When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Hate, Gossip, Negativity

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• The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Believe, Inspiration

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• God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

  Jefferson Davis

  Unions, Should, Being True

  Jefferson Davis (1859). “Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi: delivered during the summer of 1858”, p.3

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• But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer.

  Galileo Galilei

  Errors, Allegiance, Interest

  "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615". sourcebooks.fordham.edu.

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• 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

  War, Fighting, Army

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.227

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• TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

  Joseph Joubert

  Moments

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• Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand and whose attitude towards me we always uncertain and often hostile? It was this: "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world".

  David Livingstone

  Attitude, Years, People

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• Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of a stream, catches a glimpse in the water of a white face or a moving limb and turns quickly away, refusing to help or to search for help. We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget or help them. Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighborhood of light we see our own face.

  Janet Frame

  Dream, Memories, Moving

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

  Jane Goodall

  Warfare, Behavior, Form

  Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman (1999). “Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wisdom, Patience, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4236, Delphi Classics

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• Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Falling In Love, Heart, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (1939). “Christmas Holiday”

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• You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Stars, Men, Evil

  "Farewell Sebastian Horsley: a true bohemian" by Emily Hill, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.

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• The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Real, Lying

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• I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

  Jack Kemp

  Party, Growth, Economic

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• People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

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• Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Lying, Names

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.

  John Boehner

  Clouds, Government, Israel

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• It goes without saying, winning against a good team in a hostile crowd on the road, it's just an absolutely huge win.

  Peyton Manning

  Team, Winning, Crowds

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• I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

  Ice Cube

  Beautiful, Dad, Husband

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• In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness".

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