Top 100 Quotes About Animosity
#2. Imagine learning at such a young age that your very appearance - your very identity - is enough to trigger such confusion and animosity. Imagine knowing that people will hate you for no reason other than you are who you are
Thomas Beatie
#3. Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.
Louise Brooks
#4. I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.
Jimmy Carter
#5. Here you are, obsessed with romantic language-a language invented for expression between lovers-and you use it to spread animosity.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#7. I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
Joe Frazier
#8. One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.
James Mercer
#9. To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
Berthold Auerbach
#11. I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.
Lou Doillon
#12. The person who killed my son, I have no animosity for that person at all.
Cindy Sheehan
#13. He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity
Confucius
#14. Still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.
Charles Dickens
#15. First Emma. Now Thad. Regin was sick and tired of non-evil vampiric creatures messing with her millennium's worth of scathing animosity for their species...
Kresley Cole
#16. All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.
Mark Twain
#17. I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some are very knowledgeable about painting. But it isn't something I have any influence over, so there isn't any point in worrying about it.
Peter Doig
#18. Personal dignity begins by accepting responsibility for our actions, acting humbly, and extending compassion to other people. Personal humility requires choosing living with quietness of the heart over living in the depths of animosity, despair, and discord.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#19. You could start a fire with the heat between you two."
"You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.
Michelle Hodkin
#20. ANIMOSITY (ANIMO'SITY) n.s.[animositas, Lat.]Vehemence of hatred; passionate malignity. It implies rather the disposition to break out into outrages, than the outrage itself. They were sure to bring passion,
Samuel Johnson
#21. I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity ... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#22. There was no real animosity in his voice or his mind. It was the simple desire to obstruct found in everyone, and often expressed where there is no fear of retaliation.
Mark Clifton
#23. Duden Dictionary Meaning #2
Verzeihung - Forgiveness: to stop feeling anger, animosity, or resentment.
Markus Zusak
#24. Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
Yelawolf
#25. Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity: ...
Adam Smith
#26. The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
Agnes Repplier
#27. I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. I felt the heat of the animosity they bear towards me, the vindictive nature that drives a man to destroy his neighbour in a fire as if he were a banned book ... for what is the difference? Every book is imbued with the human spirit.
Sjon
#29. But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
Herbert Butterfield
#30. Every Muslim, from the moment they realize the distinction in their hearts, hates Americans, hates Jews and hates Christians. For as long as I can remember, I have felt tormented and at war, and have felt hatred and animosity for Americans.
Osama Bin Laden
#31. The hostility that America continues to express against the Muslim people has given rise to feelings of animosity on the part of Muslims against America and against the West in general.
Osama Bin Laden
#32. It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.
Deborah Tannen
#33. I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
Alan Greenspan
#34. Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#35. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. - Helen Burns
Charlotte Bronte
#36. Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
Walter Savage Landor
#37. If you think it is spiritual to burn food in front of starving people in hopes that your gods will bring this back to you in triplicate, you are missing the point and sowing animosity from all sides.
Thomm Quackenbush
#38. When Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was asked why there was so much animosity in her country towards the United States, she gave a one-word answer: "drones."
Medea Benjamin
#39. Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.
Dennis Prager
#40. Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can only offer to them the deep belief that they are fighting that a great land may live.
Oswald Mosley
#41. The reason for a Lahore-based cricketer being treated with a degree of animosity by the Karachi lobby (or vice versa a Karachi cricketer being treated similarly by the Lahore lobby) needs to be set in a wider context of historical regional and provincial tensions. Rivalries
Shaharyar M. Khan
#42. Where's Barack Obama when Christmas references are being erased from civic calendars? Is he crying out in defense of religious liberty and our First Amendment? Nope. He's as silent as a church mouse. And animosity toward religion continues to grow.
Chuck Norris
#43. Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn't mean there's any personal animosity.
Megyn Kelly
#44. the natural animosity between those who slept and those who were stirring in the sleeping city.
Stefan Zweig
#45. His definition of friendship had been grounded on the lowest common denominator, an absence of animosity. He
Henning Mankell
#46. Let everything that you do bring credit and honor to the Church, of which you are a member, and the Lord will bless you and magnify you. Let there be no animosity among you but only love, regardless of race, regardless of circumstances. Let us love one another as the Lord would have us do
Gordon B. Hinckley
#47. Well, I'm just glad some women watch it,' Dex says, turning his attention to the camera, perhaps feeling the animosity and low self-esteem just reeking from our pores.
Karina Halle
#48. Animosity does not eradicate animosity. Only by loving kindness is animosity dissolved. This law is ancient and eternal. (attributed to Buddha)
Ananda Maitreya
#49. When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
George Henry Lewes
#50. Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.
Germaine Greer
#51. Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte
#52. Some day I would like to write a textbook on how to be a female detective in a man's world. Rule Number One: try not to let your animosity show. Your career as an investigator will be short lived if you cannot hide your feelings when you dislike, distrust, or despise your interviewee.
Frances Brody
#53. The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.
Pope Leo XIII
#55. Therefore, it is forbidden to say anything to anyone that might cause animosity between any two people.
Israel Meir Kagan
#56. His philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it & animosity was hard to determine
Charles Dickens
#57. I am sure it would not be in the long-term interest of China, which would continue to depend on these African resources for a very long time, to see the emergence of any sense of hostility, animosity, tension between itself and the African continent.
Thabo Mbeki
#59. The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and it's interest.
George Washington
#60. I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.
Thomas Kinkade
#62. Is your animosity towards a person warranted, or is it a reflection of your own insecurities?
Trenice Carter
#63. On a good day, the animosity levels between us were usually at CODE RED. Bad days they were at CODE I'M GOING TO KILL YOU.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#64. It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
#65. For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes ... than most people have experienced in all their life in the way of fear, in the way of tension, in the way of animosity towards machinery and to a racetrack.
Jackie Stewart
#66. There was a lot of animosity on the County side, a lot of jealously.
Jonathan Maberry
#67. It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.
Dennis Hastert
#68. Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
Xun Zi
#69. She also had a French accent, which hundreds of years of animosity had trained nice young Englishwomen to suspect as evil.
Gail Carriger
#70. She could have sworn the high-end Viking stove was glaring at her. The animosity was mutual.
J.R. Ward
#71. I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone.
Amelia Boynton Robinson
#72. Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that's wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosity for reasons that are hard to put your finger on, they read in bad faith.
Paul Auster
#73. Don't let negativity ruin your day.
Don't let inefficiency ruin your week.
Don't let adversity ruin your month.
Don't let animosity ruin your year.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#74. The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person ...
Barack Obama
#75. To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary - these are all the things that sort of defined him.
Jeff Lemire
#76. Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of "racial tensions" is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America can do will affect the perceptions of many black Americans or of the leftist libel.
Dennis Prager
#77. The initial animosity between divergent approaches can be overcome if we realize that each has something to offer that the other lacks. We may weave them together into a new whole that is stronger than the sum of its parts.
Frans De Waal
#78. Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.
James Cook
#79. But there was a cost. Being near Ethan was just ... incendiary. Part animosity, part ridiculous chemistry, neither conducive to a peaceful home environment. And this was only my first night under his thumb. Not a good sign of things to come.
Chloe Neill
#80. [R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#81. Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before.
Lisa Kleypas
#82. A zeal for different opinions concerning religion ... [has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.
James Madison
#83. My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings.
Aasif Mandvi
#84. I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.
Primo Levi
#85. There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there's always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.
Roald Dahl
#86. The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is to defend the marginalized against those with the greatest power - and that the resulting animosity from those in power is a badge of honor.
Glenn Greenwald
#88. In judging of them, he judged leniently; the whole bias of his profession had taught him to think that they were more sinned against than sinning, and that the animosity with which they had been pursued was venomous and unjust; but he had not the less regarded their plight as most miserable.
Anthony Trollope
#89. [The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another.
George Washington
#90. Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. You can let hate, animosity and anger eat away at you, or you can let it go and begin again.
Leon Brown
#92. Anger met with anger only increases enmity rather than diffusing a tense situation. Anger, in turn, gives birth to hate. In such cases the wisest thing to do is not to engage through emotion. Emotions are self-centered and denying them spares animosity.
Donna Lynn Hope
#93. Just as the Atlantic slave trade did not stem from hatred towards Africans, so the modern animal industry is not motivated by animosity. Again, it is fuelled by indifference.
Yuval Noah Harari
#94. Return animosity with virtue.
Laozi
#95. Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
Saskya Pandita
#96. I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.
Graham Chapman
#97. We did something this year that was not based on animosity.
Nikki Sixx
#98. [Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
Vince Lombardi
#99. How we begin and how we end any relationship is a product of planning, fortuity, and personality. Many enterprises commenced in good faith spiral into confusion, discord, and disarray, generate turmoil and corruption, sunburn the sensitive parties, and conclude in a cesspool of regret and animosity.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#100. Let sincere men and women the world over unite in earnest effort to supplant feelings of selfishness, hatred, animosity, greed, by the law of service to others, and thereby promote the peace and happiness of mankind.
David O. McKay
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