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Quotes About Threatens

PERHAPS IN SOME FORMAL SENSE every book begins by considering its own impossibility, but this book's completion has depended on a way of working with that impossibility without a clear resolution. Even so, something of that impossibility has to be sustained within the writing, even if it continually threatens to bring the project to a halt.
~ Judith Butler
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
~ Alan Paton
Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression.
~ Joe Eszterhas
Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.
~ Hilda Doolittle
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
~ John Stuart Mill
The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.
~ Anthony Greenwald
The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.
~ Ruben Hinojosa
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
~ Erich Fromm
Climate change threatens the wellbeing of every person around the world and can only be addressed through a global response to reduce emissions.
~ Ed Davey
to imbibe it is to undergo, at the peril of my very soul, a transformation so radical that simply to behold it threatens the sanity.
~ Robert Masello
Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself. Yes, at Society itself...
~ Aldous Huxley
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
~ Orson Scott Card
However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
~ Garrett Hardin
Death does not conquer. It threatens, but it cannot subdue the future. What must be, will be.
~ Robin Hobb
Even if AAP wins municipal elections we will continue to demand probe into EVM tampering because it threatens the base of democracy.
~ Arvind Kejriwal
In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.
~ Andrew Tobias
That which is sacrosanct I shall preserve. That which is sublime I will protect. That which threatens, I will destroy. For my holy wrath will know no bounds...
~ Anthony Reynolds
Change, that all-encompassing word, has become a universal corporate mantra. We must change to survive. But change from what and to what? Change for change's sake is no solution to anything. Most people actually eschew change. It is emotionally disruptive, stress inducing and threatens that most fundamental of human needs - stability.
~ John Humphrys
He follows that scent-that hated, enticing, bittersweet scent-to its inevitable conclusion. A man, a man who does not serve. A man who threatens something the hound holds dear. A man who will not be permitted to continue.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
~ Author Unknown
Simply put, ObamaCare cost Americans jobs through uncertainty and now implementation threatens even more jobs. No wonder the majority of Americans continue to oppose it.
~ Pete Sessions
Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.
~ Charles Kennedy
The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.
~ Hillary Clinton
Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.
~ Alan Lowenthal