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Quotes About Threatens

In a holiday tradition that is the stuff of nightmares, the devil threatens to scoop bad children into his sack and carry them to hell. (And you thought coal in your stocking was harsh?)
~ Laini Taylor
I receive underwear - some clean, some not. No joke. My assistant who helps me with my fan mail constantly threatens to quit because of what we get sent.
~ Alex O'Loughlin
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
~ Erich Fromm
But of course what really threatens the scofflaw is not the just society but the decaying one. It is here that he finds himself becoming slowly indistinguishable from the citizenry.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Stalin raised a toast: "We will mercilessly destroy anyone who, by his deeds or his thoughts—yes, his thoughts!—threatens the unity of the socialist state. To the complete destruction of all enemies, themselves and their kin!"29
~ Timothy Snyder
The pollution that flows from the Tijuana River Valley into the Pacific Ocean threatens San Diego's environment.
~ Kevin Faulconer
All Hallow's Day: grief comes in waves. Now it threatens to capsize him.
~ Hilary Mantel
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
If we decide that we have to abolish or curtail economic freedom as potentially demon-provoking, the danger is very great that we shall soon feel all freedom threatens to release the demonic forces.
~ Peter F. Drucker
capitalism demands not only constructed enemies and constructed desires, but also real impending crisis which threatens the human race itself with extinction.
~ Unknown
Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.
~ Rahm Emanuel
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)
~ Don DeLillo
You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out. This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal existence on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature.
~ Don DeLillo
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature.
~ Don DeLillo
Law demands—grace gives. Law says "do"—grace says "believe." Law exacts—grace bestows. Law says "work"—grace says "rest." Law threatens, pronouncing a curse—grace entreats, pronouncing a blessing. Law says "Do, and thou shalt live"—grace says, "Live, and thou shalt do." Law condemns the best man—grace saves the worst man.
~ J. Vernon McGee
And then for a long time there is a silence that is so loud it threatens to blow my head off.
~ Unknown
I think it's my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
Modern man fears technology's destructive capacity, when it is its constructive capacity that threatens him.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila