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Anger is fleeting, whereas hostility is enduring. — Deborah Sandella

With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate. — Gautama Buddha

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian. — William Goldman

Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd. — Eric Thomas

Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Hostility and hatred are no match for justice; they offer no pathway to peace. — Barack Obama

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility. — Plato

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility. — Eknath Easwaran

I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder. — Werner Herzog

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. — Albert Schweitzer

Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind. — Cassandra Clare

Nothing is so awkward as a demonstration of humanity by the enemy. — Kobo Abe

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war. — Phyllis Diller

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction. — Cassandra Clare

As they stood in the heavy silence, they knew there was only one plague larger than the world's hostility--its indifference. — C.M. Rayne

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind. — Robert Bork

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them. — Helen Keller

There's hostility to lying, and there should be. — Bob Woodward

The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others. — Nachman Of Breslov

There is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up? — Cassandra Clare

They see in the population's hostility towards the left only the hostility towards the left, not the hatred against those who are socially privileged. — Red Army Faction

Delicious baked goods were the great work hostility equalizer, no matter how unorthodox the workplace. — Molly Harper

Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged. — J. A. Spender

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny. — Neil Simon

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. — John Keats

The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion. — Robert H. Knight

We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion. — Abraham Maslow

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option. — Dalai Lama

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility. — Erma Bombeck

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility. — Alec Guinness

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him. — Frank Herbert

I have a lot of hostility. — Jon Stewart

I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people. — Thomas Jefferson

Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even. — Deepak Chopra

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open. — Victor Hugo

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

know where this hostility is coming from but I got — Mimi Pablo

Compassion has dropped so far out of sight these days that many are confused about what is required. It even inspires overt hostility. — Karen Armstrong

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others. — Tacitus

The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian. — Edmund White

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity. — R.C. Sproul

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

I am conscious of a partly pathological hostility toward what is fashionable. — C.S. Lewis

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived. — Sandra Day O'Connor

What an odd thing it must be to watch everything you've ever known be destroyed. The fire spreads with hostility, with disregard. — Pittacus Lore

Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy. — Raheel Farooq

The stumbling weighty hostility of bears, the incorporated rapacity of wolves.. — Rebecca West

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. — Anton Chekhov

I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility. — Donald Miller

Oftentimes the root of their marriage problems is found in some hostility they have been hauling around, sometimes since childhood. — Charles F. Stanley

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. — Karl Abraham

Many immigrant groups have faced hostility. The Irish did in their time. Jews did. Italians did - and now, Muslim immigrants. — Tom Gjelten

Releasing both victory and defeat, the tranquil minds dwell in happiness. Victory produces hostility. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged. — Harsha Bhogle

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love. — Tina Brown

Our resolved will to endure any hostility is the sure way to win the adversary. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The energy form that lies behind hostility and attack finds the presence of love absolutely intolerable. If — Eckhart Tolle

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained. — Betty Friedan

If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism. — Eugen Weber

Compete, but not out of envy.
Contest, but not out of hostility.
Treat your rivals with respect;
treat your allies with honor. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace. — Dalai Lama

Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological. — Michael Medved

People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility. — Roy Baumeister

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. — James Gleick

He wanted his noises to touch the others; friendly noises could melt hostility. — Rohinton Mistry

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. — David Foster Wallace

The universe isn't for or against us; it isn't even indifferent. — Marty Rubin

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility. — Franz Grillparzer

The jungle is alive. It's dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility. — Sara Sheridan

The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion. — Mathew Staver

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force. — Hans F. Sennholz

In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others. — Thomas Harding

Teasing is veiled hostility and is almost never funny, unless the teasee has openly agreed to relate that way. — Sue Patton Thoele

People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves. — Frederick Lenz

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen. — Robert Bresson

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again. — Melody Beattie

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. EPHESIANS 2:12-14 — David Platt

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth. — Sue Grafton

The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple. — Cory Booker

Indeed, we should be trying to reach out to those who don't know Jesus Christ, which is impossible in an atmosphere of hostility. — James C. Dobson

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

Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God. — R.C. Sproul

Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex. — Myrna Loy

Reverence reduces hostility. — Toba Beta

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

I've noticed your hostility towards him ... I ought to have guessed you were friends. — Malcolm Bradbury

Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face. — Dan Savage

She had seen it when she was at home last summer - the hostility of comfortable, self-satisfied people toward serious effort. — Willa Cather

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down. — George Carlin

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration. — Lance Secretan

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion. — Sandra Day O'Connor

The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended. — J. K. Bharavi

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship. — Barbara Walters

For somewhere reigns an old hostility / between living one's Life and doing one's Work. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious. — Jon Stewart

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. — Thomas Jefferson

We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pale-mauve hostility you often find among women. — Margaret Atwood