Quotes About Threat

All she did was take her hand out of her bag, with a gun in it. All she did was point it at me and smile. All I did was nothing.

The muzzle of the Luger looked like the mouth of the Second Street tunnel, but I didn't move. Not being bullet proof is an idea I had had to get used to.

Yes," said Talon, his voice the hiss of a coiled serpent.

Marriage equality is a threat: to inequality. It's a book to everyone who values and benefits from equality. It's for all of us.

about sixty-six thousand women are killed by men annually, worldwide, in the specific circumstances they began to call "femicide." Most of them are killed by lovers, husbands, former partners, seeking the most extreme form of containment, the ultimate form of erasure, silencing, disappearance. Such deaths often come after years or decades of being silenced and erased in the home, in daily life, by threat and violence. Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once.

Katrina was an extreme version of what goes on in many disasters, wherein how you behave depends on whether you think your neighbors or fellow citizens are a greater threat than the havoc wrought by a disaster or a greater good than the property in houses and stores around you.

how you behave depends on whether you think your neighbors or fellow citizens are a greater threat than the havoc wrought by a disaster or a greater good than the property in houses and stores around you.

The military and National Guard were deployed to prevent things that often existed largely in their imagination.

Marriage equality is a threat: to inequality. It's a boon to everyone who values and benefits from equality. It's for all of us.

Notre seule défense contre eux était de leur faire peur. Mais nous leur avoins fait TROP PEUR!...

Either the threat posed by Jesus to the stability of Jerusalem is so great that he is one of only a handful of Jews to have the opportunity to stand before Pilate and answer for his alleged crimes, or else the so-called trial before Pilate is pure legend. There is reason to suspect the latter.

The deal is this. You be the hero. Come down here. Unarmed. Come inside with your hands on your head. I'll let everybody go. Then I'll blow your fucking head off. Sir. How's that for a deal? You buy it?

If you think someone is seriously on the prod for your ass, it keeps you awake.

Hijacking by pseudoscience and bad science fiction is a threat to our legitimate sense of wonder.

But, alas, nobody anticipated the United States Department of Homeland Security.

Your fight is long from over, Deon. More of your kind will come... and they will come for you.

She understood perfectly that when the object of anticipation becomes paramount, trouble begins to lurk like a panther.

Real monsters will always disappoint. The unseen threat, the rumour, is a far greater power.

I felt a cold circle of metal touch the base of my skull. That's exactly what you think it is, a calm voice said. Yo do the wrong thing, and the cops are going to be picking bits of your cortical stack out of that wall for weeks.

And in these times, people were always in danger of becoming less than fully themselves. If you terrorised them enough, they became something else, something diminished and reduced: mere techniques for survival. And so, it was not just an anxiety, but often a brute fear that he experienced: the fear that love's last days had come.

If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it, she threatened. Then I'll take every care. You promise me? I promise you.

I will say one thing to you before we leave here. If you ever hurt Jena again, I'll strangle you with my bare hands. That's a solemn vow, Brother.

Change back to your ugly self before I change your face for you," Logan said, Silver Frost.

Remember that in a threatening environment, the human brain becomes permanently organized for aggression.