Quotes About Unfriendly

#1. There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#2. I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.

Rafael Nadal

#3. The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures ... They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.

Allan Bloom

#4. There are many evil and unfriendly things in the world that have little love for those that go on two legs, and yet are not in league with Sauron, but have purposes of their own. Some have been in this world longer than he.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. Some say that I have self-awareness but no soul, that I am nothing but a machine. This seems un-Platonic as well as unfriendly, but it cannot be discounted as a terrifying possibility. I cannot erase this option simply because I dislike it so much. That too would be un-Platonic.

Jo Walton

#6. People who were normally friendly followed orders because they didn't want to upset others, while those who were described as unfriendly stuck up for themselves.

Anonymous

#7. In fact, I love all repose and all that reposes, all thrift and moderation, and am in my inmost self, unfriendly toward any haste and agitation.

Robert Walser

#8. Jace looked at him. His expression was cool, unfriendly; his hand was atop Aline's where it rested on her thigh.

Cassandra Clare

#9. The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'

Peter Thiel

#10. In love afairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.

Anne Bronte

#11. Mr. Dial grinned. His small teeth, his wide-set eyes and his bulging forehead - plus his habit of looking at the class in profile, rather than straight on - gave him the slight aspect of an unfriendly dolphin.

Donna Tartt

#12. Nowadays some people have become
intimate with thoughts
but unfriendly with the heart
They have become a clueless eye
that does not see itself

Santosh Lamichhane

#13. If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom; if you are courteous to them and they do not respond, look into your courtesy. If what you do is vain, always seek within.

Mencius

#14. I'd been accused of being standoffish and bitchy. The truth was, it wasn't that I was mean or unfriendly. I just generally sucked at small talk with people I didn't know, and most important, I had a severe case of resting bitch face.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#15. Roarke's brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve's body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth.

J.D. Robb

#16. A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Walter Bagehot

#17. Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

John Dewey

#18. Remember how it is written of Job, "The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he
prayed for his friends." While he prayed for himself, he remained a captive; but when
he prayed for those unfriendly friends of his, then the Lord smiled upon him, and
loosed his captivity

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#19. What an unfriendly country," said Noxon. "Different time, different place," said Wheaton. "We think we're a very welcoming country. Generous and kind. Unless we don't like your language or the way you look.

Orson Scott Card

#20. My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

Whittaker Chambers

#21. If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the best military-to-military relationship ever.' And that part is true.

Elliott Abrams

#22. The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

Bob Newhart

#23. What was reckless, I decided, was the way people were writing off huge swaths of the world as unsafe, unstable, unfriendly, when all they needed to do was go and see for themselves

Amanda Lindhout

#24. Beautiful relations are based on bricks of trust, sometimes situations become unfriendly with no logical reasons behind it, some are eye-openers and some make you realize your faults , but if your intentions are right be bold enough to face all oppositions.

Dipika Agarwal

#25. Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

Peter Block

#26. Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.

Benjamin Franklin

#27. In London, people can be so ... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.

Carey Mulligan

#28. Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

William Cowper

#29. These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one

Thomas Pynchon

#30. Is there a reason we're taking the alley?" he asked. "The air is a tad ripe out here."
"Unfriendly eyes out front."
"Enforcers?"
"A ten-year-old boy."
"Oh, yes. Terrifying."
"He's someone's spy," she said.

Lindsay Buroker

#31. As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man's cunning.

Charles Kellogg

#32. In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders.

Robert Reich

#33. My work is about the underbelly of the beauty of nature - and the dark side of nature is its indifference. Nature isn't friendly, nor is it unfriendly - it's the perfect embodiment of the Other.

April Gornik

#34. There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#35. I don't feel unfriendly, ma'am," said Mrs. Wiggins. "Only towards Mr. Margarine. You know very well why." Mrs.

Walter R. Brooks

#36. Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.

Phyllis McGinley

#37. Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

Walter Scott

#38. We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

Irwin Rose

#39. Jupiter was a chilly, dark and unfriendly tract of land in which no hope lingered, only despair. There she woke up in an oval dungeon.

J.M.K. Walkow

#40. To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Viscott

#41. It is hard to be an apprentice to an unfriendly professor, or even one whose warmth or tolerance wears thin when the going gets hard for the student and help is needed.

Robert Audi

#42. If we believe that the universe is unfriendly and that our very souls are in danger, peace will be elusive at best.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#43. By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again.
Not that year.
Winter hung in there, like an invalid refusing to die. Day after grey day the ice stayed hard; the world remained unfriendly and cold.

Neil Gaiman

#44. Life too short to hold grudges, hate, be negative, be mean, and unfriendly.

Jennifer M. Malone

#45. The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

Saint Francis De Sales

#46. It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

Julie Burchill

#47. At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

Lemony Snicket

#48. There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier to people

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#49. Don't judge me unfriendly, I'm not arrogant, I'm not shy i just like quietness, cause i can nurture my own world and it's make me back as my original as introverted

Abhiyanda B.

#50. The night darkens, the stars unfriendly, the cold a knife upon her neck - but Nella waits, until she can no longer difference between Johannes and the darkness that carries him away.

Jessie Burton

#51. No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.

Hani

#52. He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#53. [My guilty pleasure is a] deep, eco-unfriendly, hot bath. Preferably with a glass of champagne and someone sitting on the loo seat gossiping.

Prue Leith

#54. New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

Jeannette Walls

#55. I was kind of unfriendly and suspicious of everyone around me. I didn't talk until I was about 15. It's a kind of famous story at my house.

Mindy Kaling

#56. But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

Sarah Dessen

#57. Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#58. This world made by humans for themselves is most unfriendly towards humans. What irony.

Pooja Perumal

#59. The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.

Mikhail Bakunin

#60. Renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

Ambrose Bierce

#61. As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

Joanne Harris

#62. I don't want to part in any ill-humor. But can't you understand? I've grown used to seeing you, to having you with me all the time, and your action seems unfriendly, even unkind. You don't even offer an excuse for it. Why, I was planning to be together.

Kate Chopin

#63. You cannot succeed when surrounded by disloyal and unfriendly associates, no matter what may be the object of your definite chief aim. Success is built upon loyalty, faith, sincerity, co-operation and the other positive forces with which one must surcharge his environment.

Napoleon Hill

#64. Duane: We are not enemies! We are Aldishmen! Aumut vaosa -- six years I've longed for a Tainish word from a friendly tongue!
Quigley: Keep longing.

Ashley Cope

#65. If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you should feel moved to reason with anyone.

David Weber

#66. Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#67. Friend: A potential enemy with whom relations have not yet deteriorated to all-out war

Bangambiki Habyarimana