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Quotes About Threats

We must think upon these things that threaten our love, which cause us to fear its loss. Fear is not good. We must conquer it and our mistrust. A
~ Janelle Taylor
As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.
~ Janet Napolitano
People with Williams Syndrome are "hypersocial," and do not see danger in the faces of people who may be threats.43 They also tend to be mildly retarded and to suffer from other physical complications.
~ Jared Taylor
A dozen years ago, the size of the cybersecurity market was just $3.5 billion. Research reports valued the global cybersecurity market at $64 billion in 2011 and $78 billion in 2015; they project it to be at $120 billion by 2017. ...I expect the total market size of the cybersecurity to increase even faster, reaching $175 billion by the end of 2017.
~ Alec Ross
divisions at home would invite dangers from abroad;
~ Alexander Hamilton
Human induced climate change is real, and the evidence is right in front of us. It threatens our shores. It promises to bring intense heat waves and powerful storms. It has the power to disrupt our economy, endanger our food supply, and imperil global stability. We must take action to stop it.
~ Letitia James
The Internet - central to modern life - provides new ways for our enemies to plan and act against us.
~ George Osborne
We cannot afford to continue losing our coral reefs, which are suffering from a number of threats such as warmer temperatures, more acidic waters, and disease, and that is why Hawaii has become a leader in taking steps to mitigate the harmful impacts of sunscreen on our marine environment.
~ Mazie Hirono
We cannot allow Afghanistan to become again a haven for terrorists who inspire, plan and provide support for attacks like those of 11 September 2001, of 7 July 2005 in London, and more.
~ Bob Ainsworth
In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather than weaken, the rights and liberties that terrorism precisely threatens with extinction.
~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
There are ominous signs about the future of classical music. The record companies are facing threats from piracy and unauthorized downloading. It's important for those of us who have achieved success to speak out for the choristers and violinists, and beginning artists who won't have work at all if the piracy continues.
~ Renee Fleming
What cannot be accomplished by threats can often be achieved by composure. Sit and stare and let your opponent fill the silence with his own demons.
~ Rich Cohen
Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of silly, rotten earth, can drive me thither (588)?
~ Richard Baxter
At home he found the same threats waiting for him. He unlocked the door and stepped into the trap he had formed around him.
~ Richard Matheson
threats of war can frighten into submission no one who is determined to resist. They can only place the threat-makers in a more isolated and confused position.
~ Richard Wright
Heroes like you always have a weak spot. We just have to find it, and then we can kill you. Won't that be lovely? Have a cheese 'n' Wiener!
~ Rick Riordan
Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.
~ Glenn Greenwald
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;For I am arm'd so strong in honestyThat they pass by me as the idle wind,Which I respect not.
~ William Shakespeare
People who are diagnosed as having "generalized anxiety disorder" are afflicted by three major problems that many of us experience to a lesser extent from time to time. First and foremost, says Rapgay, the natural human inclination to focus on threats and bad news is strongly amplified in them, so that even significant positive events get suppressed. An inflexible mentality and tendency toward excessive verbalizing make therapeutic intervention a further challenge.
~ Winifred Gallagher
not just Machupo but also Marburg (1967), Lassa (1969), Ebola (1976, with Karl Johnson again prominently involved), HIV-1 (inferred in 1981, first isolated in 1983), HIV-2 (1986), Sin Nombre (1993), Hendra (1994), avian flu (1997), Nipah (1998), West Nile (1999), SARS (2003), and the much feared but anticlimactic swine flu of 2009.
~ David Quammen
Some of these viruses," he warned, citing coronaviruses in particular, "should be considered as serious threats to human health. These are viruses with high evolvability and proven ability to cause epidemics in animal populations.
~ David Quammen
My dear child, it is never finished. Our enemies are cunning and careful. and they are legion.
~ Deanna Raybourn
To protect us from terrorism, we must have the best, absolutely the best gathering of intelligence anywhere in the world.
~ Donald Trump