Quotes with hostile

  • One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

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  • George Washington Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Lord George Byron A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ken Keys A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
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  • Aeschylus For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Napoleon Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Norman Mailer I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • James Baldwin It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Franz Kafka 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
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Wayne Dyer Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • John Berger One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Rose Macaulay Sleeping in a bed - it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Theresa May The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carl Sagan The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Camille Paglia There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Camille Paglia What troubles me about the hostile workplace category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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