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Quotes About Threat

Hanover House?" "That, or it's possible someone just thinks it's funny. But if I find out who that someone is, I'm going to make them awfully sorry." He stepped back and told his dog to go inside with her. "Makita will stay with you until I check things out." She nodded and closed the door so that Makita wouldn't be tempted to follow
~ Brenda Novak
Racism is man's gravest threat to man—the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reasons. —Abraham J. Heschel, rabbi and philosopher (1907–72)
~ Brenda Novak
The things I could do to you with a coat hanger.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
You have neither the clout nor the experience to make a threat like that, Victor.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
we pose a serious threat to the very existence of humanity.
~ Brian D. McLaren
threat works only if the recipient believes you are willing to carry through with it. —REVEREND MOTHER RAQUELLA BERTO-ANIRUL
~ Brian Herbert
Save it fucker. I'm gonna slit you open and gut you like a fish and pull out your insides. I'm going to show you the black stuff inside your belly, and then I'm gonna make you eat it.
~ Brian Keene
More than a doctrine, preemption has taken on a life of its own. It launches into operation wherever threat is felt. In today's multidimensional "threat environment," that is everywhere.
~ Brian Massumi
Negative emotions often make things even more memorable than positive ones because recalling things that are threatening—and avoiding those situations in the future if possible—is often critical to survival.
~ Bruce D. Perry
I could kidnap your mother," he offered. "If you need the phone records explained.
~ C.E. Murphy
Powerful men who believe their wealth is threatened generally are dangerous.
~ C.S. Harris
The nation was under siege by bloodthirsty hordes charging like rabid wolverines across the borders.
~ Carl Hiaasen
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.
~ Carl Sagan
We do not always recognize the thing that comes to destroy us.
~ Terry Brooks
Los gobiernos centrales siempre han constituido uno de los mayores peligros para la humanidad.
~ Terry Brooks
It would be putting it mildly to say that the lesbian represents a threat to patriarchal protocol: Western civilization has for centuries been haunted by a fear of 'women without men'—of women indifferent or resistant to male desire.
~ Terry Castle
They don't, exactly. The threat of their intervention makes it unnecessary. Wizards call it the paradox of power: if you have power, and are ready, able, and willing to use it, you don't need to exercise your power.
~ Terry Goodkind
I understand, Lord Rahl. Find the wizard Zedd and the sorceress Nicci and get them out so that they can heal you of the death inside you so that you can end prophecy and end the threat to the world of life now that the barrier is down.
~ Terry Goodkind
Something in this world always wants to kill you. Don't forget that.
~ Terry Goodkind
An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?
~ Terry Pratchett
A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.
~ Terry Pratchett
Overexcited? No! I'm getting very calmly worried that someone might shoot me!
~ Terry Pratchett
Look down, your grace, said Skimmer. Mhm, mhm. Vimes realized he could feel the faintest prick of a knife blade on his stomach. Look down further, he said. Inigo looked down. He swallowed. Vimes had a knife, too. You really are no gentleman, then, he said. Make a sudden move and neither are you, said Vimes.
~ Terry Pratchett
The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.
~ Terry Pratchett