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Quotes About Threats

In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.
~ Robert Mueller
Securing permission is not always this easy. I've been thrown out of homes. Had beer bottles tossed at my head, vicious threats spewed in my face. For some, rage is easier to handle. And many families do have secrets to hide.
~ Lisa Gardner
We view the world very much as peasants in the countryside have for millennia. they've alsways said that the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, meaning palace intrigues and imperial threats have no impact on their lives.
~ Lisa See
For our age-old enemies await us always, just beyond our thin walls. Hunger, thirst, and cold lie waiting there, and forever among us are those who would loot, rape, and maim rather than behave as civilized men. If we sit secure this hour, this day, it is because the thin walls of the law stand between us and evil. A jolt of the earth, a revolution, an invasion or even a violent upset in our own government can reduce all to chaos, leaving civilized man naked and exposed.
~ Louis L'Amour
When a man has enemies he had best beware, and
~ Louis L'Amour
Come, Philander, let us be a marching, Every one his true love a searching, Would be the most appropriate motto for this chapter, because, intimidated by the threats, denunciations, and complaints showered upon me in consequence of taking the liberty to end a certain story as I liked, I now yield to the amiable desire of giving satisfaction, and, at the risk of outraging all the unities, intend to pair off everybody I can lay my hands on.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I suppose if you were inclined to misbehave, you wouldn't exactly tell me the truth anyway. Darling, you have a brother fond of holding a gun on me, a sister who can shoot anything that moves, two other brothers who've repeatedly threatened to thrash me, and a grandmother who buys off constables. Do you really think I'm fool enough to antagonize them by committing adultery? It was hard not to smile at that. An excellent point. I think so.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Onko maailma sitten täynnä tiikereitä ja krokotiileja? - On. Mutta kaksijalkaiset tiikerit ja krokotiilit ovat vaarallisempia kuin nelijalkaiset.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Te encanta, ¿no es cierto? Amenazas... Pandillas... Maleantes... La vida de la cloaca. —Es la gente, Jake. Es la vida. Es mi negocio»
~ Alfred Bester
Never underestimate the power of calculated bullying and veiled threats! It's my conviction that, when it comes to politics, a tender conscience can be an inconvenience.
~ Alison Weir
Why don't you just tell him what he wants to know?" "I do not like bullies. And I have never responded well to threats of force."She paused. "Also, I believe he will kill me anyway." "Why?" "Because that is what he does.
~ Joe Schreiber
The question] is no longer: How do we stop addiction through threats and force, and scare people away from drugs in the first place? It becomes: How do we start to rebuild a society where we can form healthier bonds? How do we build a society where we look for happiness in one another rather than consumption?
~ Johann Hari
I've always had life threats, and they've always been for real.
~ Debbie Reynolds
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
~ Edward Abbey
Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord.
~ Anonymous
Only about one in fifteen great grey eggs hatch and make it to adulthood. Hatchlings get eaten by ravens, martens, black bears, and great horned owls; nestlings often starve. Because they require such extensive hunting grounds, great greys are particularly vulnerable to habitat loss: cattle trample meadows, decimating prey numbers; wildfires incinerate nesting areas; the owls eat rodents that have eaten poison, die in vehicle collisions, and fly into utility wires.
~ Anthony Doerr
Antony was furious and responded with threats.
~ Anthony Everitt
We need to increase cybersecurity awareness in both the private and public sector by 10,000 percent.
~ Ted Lieu
I've had people say so much, that I'm a fraud. I've had people email me and say, 'You're going to die.'
~ Mike Hughes
I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
~ Clarence Thomas
You have no idea how much consternation this restraint created in the Royal Creche. Subtlety and self-control were, after all, the most deadly threats to us all.
~ Frank Herbert
The extremely effective rhetorical methods you constantly used, at least for my instruction, were curses, threats, sarcasm, mocking laughter and – curiously enough – self-pity.
~ Franz Kafka
Who dared to assail him in his own home? He was always inclined to take things as lightly as possible, to believe the worst only when the worst happened, and not to worry about the future, even if there were threats on the horizon. But that didn't seem right here. You could look at the whole thing as a joke, a bad joke, which for unlnown reasons, perhaps because it was his thirtieth birthday today, his colleagues at the bank had arranged. That was possible of course.
~ Franz Kafka