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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. -- Wayne Dyer
Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice. -- James Patterson
Barack Obama's mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months. -- Jay Leno
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. -- Carl Sagan
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable. -- Liam Neeson
Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile. -- Aristotle
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
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy. -- Robert Mugabe
God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union. -- Jefferson Davis
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
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry. -- Ralph Chaplin
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
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion. -- Edward Everett
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
It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere. -- Michael Nesmith
Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry. -- Manfred von Richthofen
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
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. -- W. Somerset Maugham
For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense. -- James T. Walsh
Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated. -- Salman Rushdie
When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not choose to participate. Rather than build character, bullying can cause children to become anxious, fearful, unhappy, and even cause them to be physically sick. -- Linda Sanchez
Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose major theme is awareness. Whether I'm writing about military personnel, law enforcement, or De Quincey, the persistent theme is paying attention in a hostile world. -- David Morrell
Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who've stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band. -- Robert Fripp
I'd always been fascinated by people who allow themselves to be so rude and irritated and foul-mouthed and hostile, but usually you can sense there's something vulnerable beneath them - a shield they use to protect that vulnerable side. Finally, when they expose that soft spot, it's kind of touching. -- Paul Dano
One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract. -- Wayne Dyer
Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. And because the Democratic Party was taken over by the aggressive secular guys, they became hostile not just to conservative Catholics and evangelical Christians, but Orthodox Jews and Muslims and Mormons. -- Grover Norquist
The stratosphere is a hostile place. -- Felix Baumgartner
Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders. -- Martha Gellhorn
Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion. -- Richard Dawkins
New Zealanders can be a little hostile. -- Melanie Lynskey
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Established systems are inherently hostile to change. -- Newt Gingrich
For hostile word let hostile word be paid. -- Aeschylus
Donald Trump's humor is hostile to a fault. -- Gene Weingarten
What hostile parasite is tunneling through her sphincter? (Zarina) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading. -- Orson Scott Card
Junk bonds are the Holy Grail for hostile takeovers. -- Roger Miller
I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics. -- Amartya Sen
God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers. -- Martin Luther
Stop saying "right" to me. I'm starting to feel hostile. -- Laura Schlessinger
Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice. -- Pythagoras
Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface. -- Mason Cooley
Some people don't like staying in an atmosphere that was so hostile. -- Donald Trump
Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) -- Eric Metaxas
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile. -- Thomas Carlyle
Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress. -- Harry S. Truman
Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services. -- Henry Norris Russell
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile. -- George W. Bush
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity. -- Yann Martel
TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth. -- Joseph Joubert
Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic. -- Patrick Wang
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson
I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value. -- Carlos Ghosn
The two old secretaries conversed in the manner of hostile but toothless male dogs. -- John Irving
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice. -- Tom Wolfe
Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic. -- Sonja Lyubomirsky
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar. -- Anais Nin
Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile? -- Socrates
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent -- Joan Holmes
They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty. -- George Washington
Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile. -- Sharyn McCrumb
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. -- Sebastian Horsley
I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business. -- Jack Kemp
The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration. -- Theresa May
Bold clean energy action is needed to stave off a climate hostile to human life. -- Ray Metcalfe
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps -- Karl Marx
Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us. -- Robert Bly
Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real. -- Diana Trilling
I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism. -- John Shelton Reed
Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour? -- John Walford
Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile. -- Tim LaHaye
As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness. -- Rick Scarborough
A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate. -- Gautama Buddha
I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh. -- Jennifer Harrison
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you. -- Robert Bly
God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people. -- Max Anders
We should be worried about online silos. They make us stupid and hostile toward each other. -- Larry Sanger
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. -- Wayne Dyer
Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us. -- Haim Ginott
The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism. -- Chris Hughes
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed. -- Thomas Carlyle
It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people. -- Felix Frankfurter
I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam. -- Franklin Foer
No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force, -- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent -- Stanley Kubrick
There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths. -- Annie Besant
Remember: once you have ascertained that you are dealing with hostile intruders, the staircase becomes a free-fire zone. -- Massad Ayoob
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world. -- Philip Yancey
There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom. -- Ludwig von Mises
The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe. -- Albert Einstein
If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy. -- Dalai Lama
We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality. -- Camille Paglia
It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French. -- James A. Baldwin
It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems. -- Stephen Harper
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul. -- David Lehman
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. -- Emile M. Cioran
We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions. -- Auliq Ice
There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority. -- Kenneth P. Green
Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary. -- Bonaventure
We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society. -- Thiruvalluvar
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. -- Pablo Picasso
Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself. -- R. C. Sproul
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword. -- Ilona Andrews
A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. -- Malcolm X
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal! -- Quentin Crisp

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