Quotes About Threat

He noticed, without understanding, how the flames were visible now against the dull light. Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the threat of violence

Princess. By S. Morgenstern. It's a kids' classic. Tell him I'll quiz him on it when I'm back next week and that he doesn't have to like it or anything, but if he doesn't, tell him I'll kill myself. Give him that message exactly please; I wouldn't want to apply any extra pressure or anything.

Has it occurred to you that I have gone to great effort and expense, as well as personal sacrifice, to reach this point, the man in black replied. And that if I fail now, I might get very angry. And if she stops breathing in the very near future, it is entirely possible that you will catch the same fatal illness?

No creo que aceptarais mi ayuda, porque os estoy esperando para mataros. —Eso constituye un obstáculo en nuestra relación

Roosevelt: "Please for the sake of the future, nail every Communist

I'm downstairs. Hurry up, come on. Someone sent a bomb.

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who will manipulate words for their own ends.

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

Jackson would also receive what was probably the first presidential death threat the following year, over his refusal to pardon two men: "You damned old scoundrel . . . I will cut your throat while you are sleeping," and a later sentence that ended with the phrase "burnt at the stake in Washington." Its author was an actor, destined for less notoriety than his son, Junius Brutus Booth.

But take care, or I may cut those tongues from thy throats for thee." Ouch, thought Billy. That'll hurt.

This was far worse than that. It was like the moment after you realize someone has taken the pin out of a grenade. Like the quiet but deadly click of a landmine beneath a soldier's boot.

Adam Welz noted in his Guardian blog NatureUp that much of Yukon Men is grossly misleading.15 He could find no evidence to support the claim that there have been twenty fatal wolf attacks in Alaska in the past ten years. He is also baffled why Discovery would produce and broadcast a "factual" show that portrays wolves as "man-eating monsters straight out of Victorian fairytales, a serious threat to life and limb,

Do you mean you were attacked from behind?

Hadn't retired reporter Stan warned him of how protective Cosimo was of his granddaughters? What if the Carusos had discovered his identity and wanted to rub him out as they'd rubbed out his father? Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Immigrant families aren't, he notes, "a threat to America's moral culture." Rather, "America is a threat to immigrant children's moral development.

The tango, by 1914, had been officially declared immoral, and dancers went through its showy steps under threat of being dragged off the floor to jail unless light was visible between the partners and they refrained from doing any demoralizing dance steps, like "snake-wiggling" at the shoulders.

Thoroughgoing social revolutions, even if contained in a single country, are a profound threat to the international capitalist order. Every such revolution that has not been crushed internally has had to face some degree of foreign military intervention.

We're all leaving now", Blue Eyes whispered to her. "Together. Out the front door. Scream, and we'll kill you here and now. "Or later", Willow suggested nervously. "Later would be a big improvement on that idea. We could meet back here in, say, an hour, and you can exhibit your homicidal tendencies then, okay? That would be way better for us.

There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.

an image of the city, becoming fixed upon it as a threat and above all as a source of destabilization.

It was against this perceived threat to older ways of being and thinking that a fear-ridden patrician and also a populist crusade conservatism "rose" behind the coup of 17–18 July 1936.

It also meant "cleansing" people who symbolized cultural change and thus posed a threat to old ways of being and thinking: progressive teachers, intellectuals, unionized and/or autodidact workers, "new" women.

Juju is not enough to protect you. Everything you have I will turn against you. I'll turn sugar bitter for you. I'll take your very shield and crack it on your head.

The Bolsheviks are coming, like Atilla, like clouds of locusts. They are destroying everything in their path. (Vera Muromtseva)