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Quotes About Threat

He sighed, defeated by her threat. "I'll dial what's on my schedule for today." Examining the schedule for January 3, 2021, he saw that a businesslike professional attitude was called for. "If I dial by schedule," he said warily, "will you agree to also?" He waited, canny enough not to commit himself until his wife had agreed to follow suit.
~ Philip K. Dick
Without war the lower elements of mankind have increased all out of proportion. They threaten the educated few, those with scientific knowledge and training, the ones equipped to direct society. They have no regard for science or a scientific society, based on reason. And this Movement seeks to aid and abet them. Only when scientists are in full control can the—
~ Philip K. Dick
If you don't buy, they'll kill you. The perfect sales-pitch. Buy or die—new slogan.
~ Philip K. Dick
It was the most dangerous thing she had ever said. She could see quite clearly that only his astonishment prevented him from killing her at once.
~ Philip Pullman
I tell you, one more insult and I'll take his curling tongs and ram them so far up his arse he'll be able to curl the damned thing from the inside.
~ David Gemmell
Yet, in the face of this bloody and intensifying Islamist offensive, Obama has tried to convince the American people that the war against al-Qaeda has been essentially "won" -- by him -- and the terrorist threat is subsiding.1 Denial of the war Islamists have declared on us and denial of the threat it represents is the heart of the Obama doctrine that has guided this nation's policies for more than four years.
~ David Horowitz
The only way to reverse this trend is to mount a campaign to put Obama's support for the Muslim Brotherhood at the forefront of the political debate, and to educate Americans about the real dangers we face. Americans need to become aware of the Islamic supremacist threat, of the malignant designs of the Muslim Brotherhood, and of the disasters that may lie ahead because of the Obama administration's policies of appeasing and enabling their evil ambitions.
~ David Horowitz
After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new global totalitarian threat: Islamism ... .
~ David Horowitz
I'll kill myself. I swear, I'll kill myself, you threatened. We're not going to leave you alone, I said. But we had to, eventually. After all, people are always separable.
~ David Levithan
That dehumanizing loss of safety. It is something all of us feared and many of us knew firsthand.
~ David Levithan
It's also curious that plastic straws are now a worldwide threat, considering not long ago plastic bags were touted as an environmentally sensitive alternative to paper bags. It seems the bottom line is that both paper and plastic are bad, and the left will limit your access to both.
~ David Limbaugh
blackmail never ended. it only bought time. but time was in limited supply. it would last only as long as his money did.
~ David Morrell
It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.
~ David Sedaris
She said, "I'm going to have you fired." I had two people say that to me today, "I'm going to have you fired." Go ahead, be my guest. I'm wearing a green velvet costume; it doesn't get any worse than this. Who do these people think they are? I'm going to have you fired!" and I wanted to lean over and say, "I'm going to have you killed.
~ David Sedaris
Motherfucker, you try that again and I'll come in there with a fucking coat hanger and give you something to fucking kick about
~ David Sedaris
I'm going to have you fired!" and I wanted to lean over and say, "I'm going to have you killed.
~ David Sedaris
I said to him, I said, 'And another thing, dick stain, after this baby is born, I'm gonna take one look at its shit-covered face and if it looks anything like you, I'll have the doctor saw its fucking head off and use it for bait. I swear to God I will
~ David Sedaris
And the scariest thing—a superintelligent AI would be smart enough to hide what it was until it was too late.
~ David Sosnowski
If you ever mention my uncle to me again, I will personally push your face through the top of this table, Elizabeth told him in a flat, deadly tone, and the baron recoiled physically from her.
~ David Weber
If you ever try to change my memories again, I will slap you into next spring." I took a breath, knees shaking as I felt small beside him, my white dress brushing against his black trousers. Some women get flowers or poems from their suitors. I get insults and threats.
~ Unknown
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines.
~ Dean Koontz
There are people who want everybody dead. When you get over being surprised about that, you have a high amazement threshold.
~ Dean Koontz
Except that now, for having accused Ravi of an unspecified crime he hadn't committed, I was as good as dead. In years subsequent, when he was in the mood to terrorize me, he would whisper to me, Just wait till we're alone. You're the next goat!
~ Yann Martel
Yet despite the plethora of articles, books, films, and warning from scientists and even the military saying that global warming is the single biggest threat to the security of mankind—governments, businesses, and you and I continue to refuse to take meaningful steps to reverse the problem.
~ Yvon Chouinard