Hostile Quotations

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

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.

The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.

Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

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.

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.

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.

Local councils are hostile to large developers and think that, by doing this, they are standing up for the community. But they're wrong.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

I'm sometimes accused of being hostile to mutual funds. That's not fair, really. There is a place for them. Still, I am hostile to one thing, which is trying to use funds to time your way in and out of the market. That's a recipe for very bad results.

When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.

It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.

I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.

The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn't only a function of geography. It's also sociological. Indeed, it's probably not much of an exaggeration to say that Maryland suburbanites and Virginia suburbanites constitute two mutually hostile tribes.

It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process.

In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

Protecting yourself is very challenging in the hostile environment of the Internet. Imagine a global environment where an unscrupulous person from the other side of the planet can probe your computer for weaknesses and exploit them to gain access to your most sensitive secrets.

I work in a hostile atmosphere, and my voters are the only strength I have.

Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.

Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.

Right now, many thousands of our fellow countrymen and women are serving in faraway and often hostile lands. We'll see television coverage of them enjoying the company of their fellow service members and a special Christmas dinner in a chow hall. What they wouldn't give to be where you and your neighbors will likely be this week, sharing this season of giving at home with loved ones. Especially for them, we wish,--no, pray, "Peace on Earth, goodwill toward men.

I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did not write their history. It was written by hostile witnesses, by Christian monks and so on. From what I could see and understand, I was really excited about it. I loved their culture and loved their gods.

If we had come out 0-2, we'd have to dig ourselves out of a huge hole walking into a very hostile environment next week in Colorado. The defending champs are going to be very tough to deal with at their house, so this game was a pivotal game for us.

Leave the old and dying America and use your creative energies to help form a new America, which would be de-militarized, more humanistic, where the police are less hostile and closer to the community, where the wealthy are not given unleashed power for the exploitation of the people.

We need to be confident in a hostile environment. That Buffalo crowd can get to you, and we want our players to play with confidence. We need to execute our offense, and sometimes that's tough to do with the type of environment their crowd creates.

Making a catch like that with that amount of time left in a hostile environment, it's definitely a confidence builder because I was able to help our team keep its dream alive.

security awareness ... did not match the hostile environment.

She was not hostile nor did she come across as some kind of right-wing ideologue.

We've never been in a market like this, where gasoline prices are cheap. It's a world that's very hostile to small cars.

Knowing we can go out on the road and play in a hostile environment like this and play to the end ... a game like this has to help us. We've played well on the road, and we'll be at home Thursday, which is good, but if we get by Maize, we'll have to go on the road and play a competitive team.

held in a tense but not hostile environment.

I am satisfied that every one of the worst-case scenarios was wrong. Total NATO deaths from hostile action in Bosnia since Dayton have been zero.

I can't really envision much more of a hostile environment, ... It's on national TV. Monday night football. Everybody's going to watch it. But you've got to put that aside. Bottom line is, it's still a game. It's still going to be 11 guys on offense, 11 guys on defense.

If any human being earnestly desires to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative know

I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.

But we've played in some tough places this season. We've been to the Dean Dome, Cameron Indoor Stadium, Maryland and Michigan. It's not like we don't know what it's like to play in a hostile environment.

Brunswick is much improved, and to play them on the road in kind of a hostile environment after an emotional game last week, I think our kids did look at it as a challenge, and I was pleased with the way they responded.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Having an agreed deal is more likely to be effective than someone just coming in with a hostile bid.

We've gone down there and failed dismally last year in a pretty hostile environment. So with that year's experience you'd like to think we go down there pretty hungry and we can win some football and make it a good, hard match.

We've gone on the road and won at two very difficult places. We've got another hostile environment this week, but we know that we can win wherever we play if we execute and do the things we need to do.

We're obviously chasing now, but you really don't have any choice if you want to have a chance to go and compete in a very hostile environment.

He wasn't exactly hostile to facts, but he was apathetic about them

If we allow hostile takeovers to happen without limitations, we would gradually lose our domestic brands and innovation capability.

He hung in there against some adverse conditions, in a loud place and hostile territory and all of those things. He hung in there and did a heck of a job.

He is inclined to the view of the First Amendment that the government is not intended to be hostile to religion. It is intended to be accommodating when it can.

there is an emerging consensus that is hostile to the simplistic annual standard as the basis for triggering New Source Review.

Whatever relevance such evidence may have to prove other elements of plaintiff's case, it does not have anything to do with the issues presented by the president's and Ferguson's motions for summary judgment. I.e., whether plaintiff herself was the victim of alleged quid pro quo or a hostile work environment, sexual harassment, whether the president and Ferguson conspired to deprive her of her civil rights, or whether she suffered emotional distress so severe in nature that no reasonable person could be expected to endure it.

There is no evidence to prove the involvement of hostile fire in helicopter crash. We have no evidence to support the claim of Taliban,

My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.

Playing in front of a hostile crowd is motivation for us. We are used to being the underdog in every big game. We just have to hustle more and win all the loose balls.

Peace and the stability in the western Pacific and that part of Asia depends very much upon a continued U.S. presence and upon everybody in the area being comfortable that none of the nations out there has hostile intent toward any others,

I think that gave us a lot of confidence, doing that on the road, at their place, a loud, hostile environment. I think that was a stepping stone for us, maybe a little bit of a confidence-booster for our team.

Just coming from playing in a hostile atmosphere, we knew Louisville was going to be tough. It really helped us a lot. We learned from the Syracuse game that we have to be poised at all times. We didn't want to be down but it just helped us tremendously, that Syracuse game.

Our goal was to hold them to under 40 points for the game, so we're happy we were able to do that. It wasn't our prettiest game, but anytime you can get a win on the road in front of a hostile crowd, it's a good victory. The girls did a good job of holding their composure in here tonight.

Our kids played their guts out in a hostile environment. It was a valuable experience for us as tournament time nears.

My new employees had been competing against me for so long, they were afraid to have their competitor become their new boss. They resented the fact that we were onboard. I didn't know how hostile it would be.

I'm so very, very proud of our guys ... they came in here and played their tails off in a hostile environment. They just fought and hung in there when things got tough. We didn't panic, and we were able to escape out of here with a victory.

I think for these kids, continuing to try to play hard - I mean they're on the road in a hostile environment still trying to win, they really deserve a lot of credit.

Our schedule inevitably boils down to us going to the Midwest and facing a hostile environment. So it was good to get the chance to do that down south and face some of that. It's about how well can we play. I believe if we play our best, it will be a successful trip.

Our team seems to produce well in front of a hostile crowd. It just spurs our adrenaline.

It has become a very hostile working environment. It's like working on a plantation. It's hard to greet passengers with a smile when you have employers constantly harassing employees.

It doesn't get more hostile than it was tonight. Their fans are loud and they cheer their team on. I only wish we could duplicate this environment at our place.

I think the NFL had all good intentions of raising money, and I thought they did a great job with the fundraiser, ... But I don't think it was fair what they did to this football team, having us travel to a hostile city and play in that type of environment to win a game.

I think we came into this situation ? a hostile environment ? and it allowed our team to really focus,

It has all the signs of a hostile bid, and for investors it has come as a bit of surprise. I would expect this to go on for some time, and looking at the stock prices of the two companies, it seems there is more in it for investors.

I think we come together more on the road because you have to count on each other. In a hostile environment you really have to focus more, and we do a pretty good job of that.

It became very apparent this was an away game for us at the banquet last night. I've played in some pretty hostile environments ... and a lot of things that have gone on in my career have helped prepared us for the game.

I thought we made great progress in Hawaii, but the neutral site games are over and what we didn't respond to tonight was a pretty hostile road atmosphere. We just didn't have good energy tonight. There are going to be better nights for the Broncos.

Today's strikes are in response to recent Iraqi hostile threats, including enhancement of its air defense systems against coalition aircraft monitoring the no-fly zones.

Today the collective wisdom is that the economy will improve in the not-too-distant future, and that's hostile for bonds because it suggests that the Fed is done easing monetary policy and that financial markets may confront some interest-rate pressures as the economy improves and borrowing re-accelerates.

We know it's going to be a pretty hostile environment, but our team has been exposed to that. All the players that have played here understand that we go on the road.

UTSA has lost two close games on the road and they are much better than their record indicates. It is going to be tough to win on the road with a young group, especially in a hostile environment. Our main concern has to be to come out and compete on every play.

I was proud of how the guys battled back against a hostile crowd to tie the game. It was a big game for both teams but we still have four games left and anything can happen.

Will the administration be wise enough to pull back from its hostile attitude? What is needed is a sober accounting of what is needed, instead of turning to the CIA.

We have our hands full. It makes it tougher, no doubt about it. It's going to be a home atmosphere for Florida. We're going to be in a hostile environment. We have to do our best to keep the fans as quiet as possible.

We haven't been in a situation this season where we've had to go 'silent count,' so we're getting ready in case we have to do it against Saskatchewan. We're preparing for every situation ... It's a hostile environment but that's what you have to expect this time of year, wherever you go to play.

We have supported the drug court and have even appointed one of our employees to serve on the drug court committee, ... But she has not been easy to get along with. When she came over to our board meeting to talk about the drug court, she was very hostile when we asked her questions. I'm really concerned about the recent allegations because it seems to me that it reflects her opinion of black people.

We have taken away their ability to do a hostile deal. They are restricted in making an offer for the rest of Sovereign.

We hope everybody is aware that the Republican National Committee considers the governor a target. This is a party that is opposed to programs that help working families and has been hostile to programs the governor has promoted to help working families in Illinois.

We played in one of the more hostile environments, so, yes, we played with toughness. We were in the game.

We must strengthen the ideological and political education of officials and raise their awareness of and resistance to the sabotaging acts of hostile domestic and foreign forces,

We had four good games up there. We got a lot of good things out of it. A lot of guys got some good, big-game experience in a hostile atmosphere similar to what we'll face in the NCAA tournament. We got better last week. That's the biggest advantage.

The extremists have gained the advantage and they are going to milk it for everything it's worth. It's in their advantage to keep things stirred up. It furthers their goal of trying to convince everybody in the Islamic world that the West is out to get them and is hostile towards them and that proof is this depiction of the Prophet.

We have played three straight NCAA Tournament teams in fairly hostile environments.

There are polemical extremes that are getting more hostile to each other,

We're a really young team that comes into this hostile environment playing against a championship contender. And we didn't play well. I mean, at all. And we found ourselves in a position where we should've won this ballgame.

We want to go up against the best possible teams we can before we get into the SWAC. We need to play in hostile environments because this league will not be easy.

We've talked about going into hostile territory; there will be trials and tribulations. If you squander opportunities, the game will be close. But you've got to pat them on the back, because they played 60 minutes.

Toxic language creates a hostile work environment -- and that's now illegal, ... Just as sexual harassment was ruled by the courts to create a hostile work environment for classes of employees protected under EEOC and Title VII laws, so toxic language poses similar legal liabilities. Companies are being sued today for the language used by bosses.

Toxic language creates a hostile work environment -- and that's now illegal. Just as sexual harassment was ruled by the courts to create a hostile work environment for classes of employees protected under EEOC and Title VII laws, so toxic language poses similar legal liabilities. Companies are being sued today for the language used by bosses.

We are gravely concerned this new information could indicate John Roberts holds a hostile position on the fundamental right to privacy.