Quotes About Threat

knew there were guys inside waiting to kill you. He held the phone in front of the reader

She backed up against a brick wall. Tears sliding down her face, she moaned, "Please, please don't hurt me. I swear I won't tell nobody what you done. I swear to God. Please." Rogers bent down and picked

Rogers raised a fist to deliver a blow to the head that would have almost certainly killed the man. The spot on his head was burning like somebody had set it on fire with an acetylene torch.

any type of nearby threat. Finally, he opened his eyes

He was the one who told us about Ivo Mesic hightailing it out of there on the day the Ukrainian tried to kill you at DB.

Was it a fire in the kitchen? No, a bomb in the basement.

We can try to act civilized and polite, but at the bottom of it all, the power of any ruler is based on a threat. Fortunately, we don't have to carry that threat out too often.

Gee," I say, "there are no sheets on this bed." The mouse looks at me. "Señor," he says, "if you sheet on my bed, I will keel you." We both laugh, and the mouse punches me in the arm.

Así son estas guerras: veinte muertos enemigos no compensan una muerte propia, pero la herida de la traición es la más honda, no sólo por el abatimiento que causa sino por la amenaza que proyecta

either a terrorist cell member or the ruler of someplace like North Korea or Iran, with only one or two nukes in their possession, could level the playing field against us in spite of our thousands of weapons. That's what is meant by 'asymmetrical strike.

Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)

Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.

And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

As you all know, Security Is Mortals chiefest Enemy.

frown and take a step back as if he'd realized that he had just stepped up to a grizzly

like some unholy bird of prey was swooping down on him. Preacher saw the

They'll never get the chance to do this again in Ireland," the man said, steel in his voice. "The first politician who stands up and announces he's in favor of gun control is very likely to get shot.

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

But why must I be supervised? All it does is confirm to Satchel his father is to be feared, a threat. But I loved him and wanted to see him.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Kalau nyawa kita sendiri terancam, kemampuan kita berempati jadi tumpul oleh hasrat egois yang amat sangat untuk bertahan hidup.

Tigers, indeed all animals, do not favour violence as a means of settling scores. When animals fight, it is with the intent to kill and with the understanding that they may be killed. A clash is costly. And so animals have a full system of cautionary signals designed to avoid a showdown, and they are quick to back down when they feel they can. Rarely will a tiger attack a fellow predator without warning .... It will appraise the situation. If it decides there is no threat, it will turn away....

PHILIP II, WARLORD OF MACEDON: If I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city. SPARTANS TO PHILIP II: IF

China threatened to nuke Los Angeles a few years ago and again recently, but neither of these threats was widely reported in the domestic US press.)