#hostility

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

#desire #desperate #hostility #i #i can

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#altar #eternal #every #form #god

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#fundamental #hostility #part #regimes #religion

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

— Albert Schweitzer

#causes #constant #evaporate #hostility #ice

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hostility #much #rule #too #too much

The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#centuries #christian #christian church #christians #church

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#attacks #become #bitterness #choice #disappointment

I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage. ↗

— Michael Richards

#any #audience #between #country #couple

Reverence reduces hostility. ↗

— Toba Beta

#hostility #respect #reverence #respect

Life is too short for anger, resentment, hostility and "should have." It is too short to put off doing what brings you joy. Live each day as if it were your last, because one day it will be. ↗

— Julie-Anne

#hostility #joy #live #resentment #anger