Quotes About Threat

Do you think he's going to hurt Sam?" Bess asked. "I don't know. But it sounds like that's on the table.

By itself, partyism is not the most serious threat to democratic self-government. But if it decreases government's ability to solve serious problems, then it has concrete and potentially catastrophic consequences for people's lives. I

A crash sounded from the exhibition room. OrbaLin spun around to face the smashed doors. "And maybe they never left." The archivist flicked out his wrist and a short lightsaber appeared in his waiting hand, delivered from a secret compartment in his suit. For all his quirks, the archivist had class, but would it be enough to keep them both alive?

When your world is destroyed and only a remnant is saved, then whatever is seen as a threat to that remnant becomes a hated enemy.

How do I convince him that the way we study Talmud is not a threat?' 'But it is a threat, Reuven. I just told you it is a threat. In the hands of those who do not love the tradition it is a dangerous weapon.' 'Everything is dangerous in the wrong hands. How do I convince him that we're not a threat?

He picked some unwise words. Saying, "I'll enjoy killing you for my lord", is just not the way to make my acquaintance.

Just what I needed, another psycho bitch after me. Hadn't the Weres pretty much cornered that market?

No threatening the cat! Mr. Snuggly said.

Los muertos enterrados no me daban miedo. Los vivos y los no muertos eran mucho más peligrosos.

Your life was not right when you were actually surprised that someone didn't want to kill you.

If you do that any more I'll have you whether you want to be had or not, he said, and I could tell he meant it.

No threatening the cat!" Mr. Snuggly said. No

I will burn your city, your land, your self.

The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.

Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

Honestly, the dangerous situation in which Jews in France live is such that those who walk with a kippa are in any case a minority, because they are afraid.

The thinking person who is idle appears as the greatest threat to those for whom idleness means simply doing nothing, who actually do nothing when they are idle.

This is a difference between nuclear weapons and bayonets. It is not in the number of people they can eventually kill but in the speed with which it can be done, in the centralization of decision, in the divorce of the war from political processes, and in computerized programs that threaten to take the war out of human hands once it begins.

Coercion depends more on the threat of what is yet to come than on damage already done. The pace of diplomacy, not the pace of battle, would govern the action; and while diplomacy may not require that it go slowly, it does require that an impressive unspent capacity for damage be kept in reserve.

I'm going to cut you loose. With all due respect, Doctor, if you fuck with me I'll shoot you dead, here and now. Do you understand that?- Clarice Perfectly.- Hannibal Lecter Do right and you'll live through this. -Clarice

Thus, Lincoln "saved" the federal union in the same sense that a man who has been abusing his wife "saves" his marital union by violently forcing his wife back into the home and threatening to shoot her if she leaves again. The union may well be saved, but it is not the same kind of union that existed on their wedding day. That union no longer exists. The American union of the founding fathers ceased to exist in April of 1865.

It is successful charter schools that are the real threat to the traditional unionized public schools. No charter school network examined here has been more successful educationally than the Success Academy charter schools in Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant, the South Bronx and other low-income minority neighborhoods in New York City—and none has been more often or more bitterly attacked in words and deeds.