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Quotes About Threat

Perimeter defense may not matter if the enemy is inside the gates.
~ Robert Mueller
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.
~ Michael Scheuer
Sylvan dropped the limply dangling hand and took the other man by the chin. He stared into Burke's eyes, wide with pain and fear. "Think about this the next time you're tempted to hurt a female. Any female," he growled. "And I don't care how many years ago your encounter with Sophia was—if you ever come near her again, I'll kill you. Slowly." Then
~ Evangeline Anderson
You hurt her and I'll skin you alive and feed your carcass to the wild boars in the swamps. You copy?
~ Faith Hunter
Eli met us there and handed me my bag of weapons, one hand holding Bruiser back. I left the men there, but my hearing was better than human, and I heard Eli say, "You hurt her and I'll skin you alive and feed your carcass to the wild boars in the swamps. You copy?" "I do. And I'll break your arm if you ever accost me again. Civilized discourse is acceptable. Your hand upon my person is not.
~ Faith Hunter
If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.
~ Flannery O'Connor
While not averse to commercial enterprise, he viewed the exploitation of information to the detriment of those human values as a threat to the wealth of nations, to their security, and to their very survival, and he called for the "unhampered exchange" of knowledge and information in every form.
~ Flo Conway
Brexit reminds me a bit of the Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles where the sheriff, at one point during it, holds a gun to his own head and says: 'If you don't do what I want I'll blow my brains out.' -- you want to watch that one of the 26 (other EU members) don't say just go ahead.
~ blair tony ii
For the moment, let me say this: Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.
~ blair tony iv
Danger must be present danger. Stakes must be stakes for people we care about. And what might happen to them must be shown from the get-go so we know the consequences of the imminent threat.
~ Blake Snyder
Un nuevo empleado de una gran compañía asiste a una convivencia de fin de semana de la empresa y no tarda en descubrir que alguien intenta matarle: The Retreat (Convivencia de empresa).1
~ Blake Snyder
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
~ Bono
He does not meet my eye. This is good. He fears Zorra. He fears me. As he said before, he does not want to spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder. This is why I believe in massive and disproportional retaliation. It makes your next enemy think twice. "Where
~ Harlan Coben
The rust on the fire escape was so thick that tetanus seemed a far greater threat than smoke inhalation.
~ Harlan Coben
According to all of them, Heidi, fewer than twenty-four hours from being murdered in her home, had been her usual ebullient self.
~ Harlan Coben
Does he have a record?" Perlmutter asked. "He was let out of Walden three months ago." "For?" "Armed assault," Daley said. "Wu cut a deal on that Scope case. I called and asked around. This is one very bad man." "How bad?" "Poop-in-your-pants bad. If ten percent of the rumors about this guy are true, I'm sleeping with my Barney the Dinosaur night-lite on.
~ Harlan Coben
A dozen thoughts hit me all at once. The biggest was a one-word command: RUN! I had watched the horror movies, the ones where the mentally malnourished airhead goes into the house alone, sneaking around like, well, like me, and then ends up with an ax between the eyes. From the safety of my seat in the cineplex, I had scoffed at their idiocy and now, here I was, in Bat Lady's lair, and someone else was here, in the basement. Why
~ Harlan Coben
be careful of monsters with teeth
~ Harlan Ellison
Fino al giorno in cui mi minacciarono di non lasciarmi più leggere, non seppi di amare la lettura: si ama, forse, il proprio respiro?
~ Harper Lee
You damn morphodite, I'll kill you!
~ Harper Lee
Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
~ Harper Lee
tener un arma equivale a invitar al otro a que te dispare. —Esto
~ Harper Lee
You'll get your head shot off, Jem.
~ Harper Lee
Mr. Nathan, Mr. Arthur, mad dog's comin'! Mad dog's comin'!
~ Harper Lee