Unfriendly Quotes

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

  John Dewey

  Mother, Nature, Home

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Abraham Kaplan (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953, Volume 10: 1934, Art as Experience”, p.34, SIU Press

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• 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

  House, Looks, Fierce

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The House of Lords'

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• 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

  Hurt, Failure, Thinking

  DAVID VISCOTT (1971). "SIÉNTETE LIBRE"

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• ¡Maleza perniciosa! cuyo aroma molesta a las bellas, hostil a las principales alegrías de la sociedad: tu peor efecto es desterrar durante horas al sexo cuya presencia civiliza al nuestro.

  William Cowper

  Weed, Sex, Joy

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.163

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• A veces el mundo puede parecer un lugar hostil y siniestro, pero crea que hay mucho más bueno que malo en él. Lo único que hay que hacer es buscar bien. Y lo que puede parecer una serie de acontecimientos desafortunados pueden ser, de hecho, los primeros pasos de un viaje.

  Daniel Handler

  Creer, Tiempos Difíciles, Viaje

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• No hay enseñanza hasta que el alumno es llevado al mismo estado o principio en que tú te encuentras; se produce una transfusión; él es tú, y tú eres él; entonces hay enseñanza; y por ninguna casualidad inamistosa o mala compañía puede perder jamás el beneficio.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Enseñanza, Beneficios, Principios

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). "Obras completas Delphi de Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ilustradas)", p.1320, Delphi Classics.

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• 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

  Memories, Children, Father

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• Soy decididamente antipático durante un partido de golf, desde el primer hoyo hasta el último.

  Rafael Nadal

  Golf, Games, Lasts

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• Como autores, todos esperamos que nos critiquen de vez en cuando, y todos tenemos nuestra forma de afrontar las críticas poco amistosas.

  Joanne Harris

  Criticism, Way, Coping

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• Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so tight; it gets very claustrophobic. Carefree means being wide open from within, not constricted. Carefree doesn’t mean careless. It is not that you don’t care about others, not that you don’t have compassion or are unfriendly. Carefree is being really simple, from the inside. Dignity is not conceit but rather what shines forth from this carefree confidence.

  Tsoknyi Rimpoché

  Mean, Simple, Compassion

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• He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.

  Edith Wharton

  Loneliness, Winter, Profound

  Ethan Frome preface (1911)

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• The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

  Walter Bagehot

  House, Political, Looks

  "The greatest obstacles to Lords reform sit in the Commons" by Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2012.

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• y lo que podría parecer una serie de acontecimientos desafortunados puede ser, en realidad, los primeros pasos de un viaje.

  Daniel Handler

  Viaje, Eventos, Mayo

  "Personaje de ficción: Violet Baudelaire". "Una serie de acontecimientos desafortunados", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• It is because the world is so full of suffering, that your happiness is a gift. It is because the world is so full of poverty, that your wealth is a gift. It is because the world is so unfriendly, that your smile is a gift. It is because the world is so full of war, that your peace of mind is a gift. It is because the world is in such despair, that your hope and optimism is a gift. It is because the world is so afraid, that your love is a gift.

  Robert Holden

  Happiness, War, Love Is

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.118, Hay House, Inc

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• Los consejos no favorecen el aprendizaje, sobre todo cuando son buscados. La mayoría de las veces, cuando la gente pide consejo, sólo quiere ser escuchada. Los consejos, en el mejor de los casos, interrumpen la conversación, inhiben el aprendizaje y, en el peor, pretenden dominar.

  Peter Block

  Aprendizaje, Conocimiento, Personas

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• Inflation is really like drugging the baby universe with speed. The supercool union of the hitherto unfriendly gods was blessed by amphetamine, and this made the universe inflate rather than just expand. The early orgy of expansion in the universe comes to an abrupt end as soon as the supercooled particle stuff finally freezes.

  Joao Magueijo

  Baby, Blessed, Expansion

  Joao Magueijo (2011). “Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, p.152, Random House

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• Micromessaging -- communicating with other human beings through visual, audible, sublingual means, no doubt predates our ability to speak. We actually read micromessages quite naturally without thinking about them. You might say human beings read each other's micromessages subconsciously, in the same way that one dog understands another dog is unfriendly simply because the dog's fur is standing on end. The dogs read each other perfectly. It's not all that different for people.

  Stephen Young

  Dog, Mean, Thinking

  Stephen Young (2006). “Micromessaging”, p.7, McGraw Hill Professional

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• 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

  Eye, People, London

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• El mayor grado de mansedumbre consiste en ver, servir, honrar y tratar amablemente, en ocasiones, a quienes no son de nuestro gusto y se muestran antipáticos, desagradecidos y molestos con nosotros.

  San Francisco de Sales

  Ingrato, Gusto, Grados

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• El intelecto busca el orden Absoluto de las cosas tal como se presentan en la mente de Dios, y sin los colores del afecto. Las potencias intelectuales y activas parecen sucederse, y la actividad exclusiva de una genera la actividad exclusiva de la otra. Hay algo de hostil en cada una hacia la otra, pero son como los períodos alternados de alimentación y trabajo en los animales; cada uno prepara y será seguido por el otro.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Animal, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.39, Penguin

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• Ya no podía permitirme ser celoso o antipático, porque, tan pronto como lo fui, una venda cayó sobre mis ojos, y fui atado de pies y manos y arrojado a un lado. De pronto se abrió un agujero negro, y yo quedé indefenso en su interior. Pero cuando estaba feliz y sereno, me acercaba a la gente con confianza y pensaba bien de ellos, era recompensado con la luz.

  Jacques Lusseyran

  Celoso, Ojo, Luz

  Jacques Lusseyran (2014). "Y se hizo la luz: Las extraordinarias memorias de un héroe ciego de la resistencia francesa en la Segunda Guerra Mundial", p.15, Biblioteca del Nuevo Mundo

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• 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

  Men, Challenges, Stubborn

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• 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

  Rain, Flower, Adversity

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• 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

  Hands, Littles, Degrees

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.181, 谷月社

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• Padres primerizos, presos políticos, ayudantes presidenciales traumatizados, colegiales resueltos, eurodiputados que se dirigen a cámaras poco amistosas: todos descubrimos que Shakespeare se ha anticipado mágicamente a nuestras circunstancias precisas. Cómo fue posible, aún no lo entiendo; pero no hay día en que no agradezca que me hable en mi propia lengua.

  Daniel Hannan

  Padre, Agradecido, Presidencial

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