Quotes About Threat

A civilization at war chooses only the most obvious enemy, and often also the one perceived, at first, to be the most easily defeatable. But that enemy is not the true enemy, nor is it the gravest threat to that civilization. Thus, a civilization at war often chooses the wrong enemy.

Shall I loose the fleas on my head to rend your worthless flesh from your jellied bones?

A Hood-damned Seguleh. High ranked, too. We'd never have got our shots off – no way. Our heads would have rolled like a pair of oversized snowballs. 'I looked away, Fid. I looked right down at the ground when she turned my way.' 'Me too.' 'And that's why we're still alive.' 'Aye.

See this weapon in my hands? One false move and you're nothing but atoms!' Spark tilted its head. 'Confusion! Spark already is nothing but atoms! So is Klang Intruder!

And, hovering inches from her throat, was the tip of the warrior's flint sword.

There is nothing more dangerous than a man without a sense of humour.

False doctrine was threatening to disconnect the Philippian believers from their source of joy in Jesus Christ.

Superstition, then and now, is not just a threat to the truth. It's also a threat to national security.

The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink.

When threat is high but perceived efficacy is low, defensive reactions are likely, such as denying the severity of, or susceptibility to, the threat (e.g., disparaging government health warnings) (Goldenberg & Arndt, 2008). The risk needs to be perceived as credible (i.e., not over- or understated) and the preventive or protective measures also need to be perceived as credible.

When Shan was fifteen years old, dark soldiers come out of the west, like a cloud of evil boiling over the soft hills of his homeland. They commanded terrible beasts, which killed with hooked claws like scythes and cold eyes that dripped icy fire. The soldiers wore helmets that looked like fiends, tusked and snarling and sneering.

If the Pelleth got hold of Shem, they might well eat him alive.

Daniel was in danger, he was sure of it, and Othman was involved.

He sensed that Lily and Owen were alive, but they had been seized by the same creatures that had killed Israel. And whatever had taken them wanted him, too. It was collecting Shem's followers.

Be careful, Othman, I can have a pack of famished hounds down your back while you lie asleep at night. I can tell your little Winter friends a few things about you.

Behind every conversation, every shadowed glance, every stone on the road, every bud overhead, lurked a hidden threat: that the climax of Shem's task would be his own sacrifice.

You stay here. Don't move. If I think you've so much as farted while we're gone I'm going to take your goolies off with a potato peeler. Understand?

him, he barged into your office. I went after him with my .45." Joan kept the pistol in a desk drawer. "He was trying

Release Lady Mirabelle and the kitten or I'll run you through, skewering your belly, pinching out your life.

Kiriwar: "It doesn't matter. Bitro's gonna sew your eyebrows to your eyelids when we get back." Gunzi: "Whaaat?! Then I won't be able to sleep!!" Kiriwar: "That's the idea, dumbass.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

It's okay to take the food out of the mouths of the citizens from a government that's plotting an attack directly on American soil.

At present, it's not really clear who is in charge of protecting the nation from solar and nuclear EMP.

Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth.