Quotes About Threat

He'll just snap his fingers and turn us to dust.

The Gray Assassin?" Vincent exclaimed. "Who isn't here to kill us? They don't want us kind of dead, they want us extremely dead!

If you burst a chokepod, and the gas doesn't get me, your grandfather will. Come on.

If we're attacked by corn dogs," Jeanine said with a straight face, "our enemies will be doomed.

All right.First, find me a cliff" "That,will it give you a vantage to see the area?" "No," said Kaladin. "It will give me something to throw you off of

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you've decided to have me disposed of?

I will kill you , the words said. Death, death, death. "Well... that's pleasant," Elend said.

You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know." Breeze laughed. "Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We threatened to kill you if you didn't!

If you find a building without rats, son, then you know that something more dangerous scared them away.

Get out. I'll send a bill with a drone. If you survive, I expect it to be paid.

It is the reneging on some crucial aspects of this implicit value system, namely a movement toward the creation of a self-perpetuating upper class and polarization between the elites and the rest, that represents the most important threat to the longer-term viability of liberal capitalism.

For anxiety and dread, the threat is in the future. For fear, the threat is now—in the present.

Children experience shame as the threat of being unlovable.

For anxiety and dread, the threat is in the future. For fear, the threat is now—in the present. Fear is a negative, short-lasting, high-alert emotion in response to a perceived threat, and, like anxiety, it can be measured as a state or trait.

Lo repugnante puede resultar atractivo a veces. Aterrador, amenazante, pero también tentador. Como cuando nos acercamos a algo que huele mal, pero no podemos dejar de aspirar el hedor.

Linda recognized the car next to it as Höglund's. Linda fingered the Swiss army knife in her pocket, but this was not a night for slashing tires.

A close relationship, she thought. As far as they are concerned, all that means is a threat to which they don't want to expose themselves.

I'm confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple of years ago.

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

We respect the will of our citizens, whether they are Kurds or Arabs or Turkmen, but will not allow an illegal and unconstitutional procedure done under the threat of weapons to yield results.

We do not want to live under the yoke of the threat of Islamic fundamentalism.

I can't imagine how traumatic it must be to have a gun pointed to your head for no reason at all.

In most espionage novels, the characters risk their lives trying to save somebody or while protecting a nation from some threat. In 'The Travelers,' that's not what's going on. I used espionage as a device to heighten the characters' personal dramas.