Quotes About Threat

Whenever their partner's behavior looks or sounds like the real threats they've experienced in the past, they activate the defenses they used back then. Their defensive arsenal is ready to be deployed at the slightest provocation. An unsuspecting or well-intentioned partner can stumble over a tripwire and never know what they did to set off the attack.

Otis D'ablo is alive! Do you here me? He is alive and trying to kill me!

They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.

If your sisters come to your wedding, my lady, it will only be to murder me." Azalea slowly stood. "Well at least they will be there.

I mean it, Kiernan." "So do I." "I'll find you if you're out, I swear." "A promise, Jesse, or a warning?" "A threat—and take it that way," he advised. Then he smiled and lifted his hand to his hat in salute.

Why, if we feel anguish at the death of over 300 law enforcement officers in the attacks against America on September 11, 2001, do we seek actions in police officers that are less decisive and vigorous in dealing with locally threatening circumstances-thereby placing both the officer and the subject of the police response at much greater risk?

Whenever purity is paramount, terror is close at hand.

Chaos and barbarism, which always threatened to overwhelm the movement, sharply increased as bin Laden took the helm.

The world was on the verge of a major pandemic of terrible lethality.

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.

If Marner, through the allegedly compassionate intervention of Eliot and Eppie combined, becomes, in his meek and modest way, a pillar of the social order instead of the implicit counterinstance adduced in the text as a pillar of salt, it is only because the threat of that salt, with which Eliot has no beef, cures him.

if you so much as move a eyelash, Barkley, I'm going to blow your guts all over this country-side!

Our first task therefore is to try to grasp what the concept of the enemy really means. The enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the enemy always hates us for a reason, it is his reason and not ours. He does not hate us for our faults any more than for our virtues. He sees a different world from ours, and in the world he sees, we are his enemy. This is hard for us to comprehend, but we must if we are to grasp what the concept of the enemy means.

This is how mankind has always thought of the enemy — as the one who, if you do not kill him first, will sooner or later kill you.

It was an effort formulating this summary, explaining myself. I preferred the distant past, centuries that were over and done with, ghosts that posed no direct threat. History could be milked for this cause or that. We observed it always with hindsight, projecting onto it our modern convictions and anxieties.

Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.

Tell me what it is, or prepare to eat harpoon.

If one's safety is threatened, one often finds courage one didn't know one had.

It was amazing, she thought, how everything having to do with Count Olaf was frightening.

We'll see what you find out," Stew said. "You'll find out what it feels like to be thrown from a speeding train to the rocky bottom of a drained sea. Except you won't really find out, because you'll be dead. Get it? What I mean is, it'll kill you when I throw you from this train so you'll be in no state to find out what it feels like. Get it? Due to your death by falling from a train.

Breslow!' Stein's voice was so loud that it made the thin hardboard walls of the dressing room rattle as they echoed back the sound of it. 'Breslow!' It was more like a cry for help than a threat. 'Breslow!' shouted Stein again. He was beginning to realize that Max Breslow controlled a thousand Führers.

We are now brought face to face with a tyranny which holds out the threat of becoming, thanks to "the conquest of nature" and in particular of human nature, what no other tyranny ever became: perpetual and universal.

YOU JUST PICKED THE WRONG INMATE TO MESS WITH!" Legend said. "I'M TALKING TO YOU, DOOLIN. YOU HEAR ME? BAD CHOICE… VERY BAD CHOICE!