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Quotes About Threat

I looked right into the face of pure evil. And the worst part is, it wasn't the enemy.
~ Jana Deleon
I wouldn't do that if I were you Oh yeah, why not Because know a dozen ways to kill a man. i'm thinking number 5.
~ Jane Graves
I've seen cruelty in my life. I was raised on a constant diet of humiliation. If you think a spanking and the threat of more punishment will bring me to my knees in blind submission to you, you abducted the wrong damn girl.
~ Jane Henry
It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.
~ Janet Napolitano
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
~ Janet Reno, February 2, 1998
The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe, the call could come that changes your life. Or someone else's. It makes the same flat, mechanical noise for everyone and gives no clues what's waiting there on the other end of the line. You can never be too careful.
~ Janice Galloway
An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.
~ Janny Wurts
If anybody really wanted to shoot the president of the United States," Kennedy told his aide Kenneth O'Donnell on the morning of November 22, "it was not a very difficult job—all one had to do was get a high building someday with a telescopic rifle, and there was nothing anybody could do to defend against such an attempt.
~ Jared Cohen
What the journalist Alex Massie wrote in The Spectator offers a warning beyond Britain: If you spend days, weeks, months, years telling people that they are under threat, that their country has been stolen from them, that they have been betrayed and sold down the river . . . that their problem is they're not sufficiently mad as hell, then at some point, in some place something or someone is going to snap.
~ Jason DeParle
The British were afraid. They knew they didn't have the money, the people, or the weaponry to sustain a long fight against the Nazis. They needed America to join the war. Their survival as a nation depended on it.
~ Jason Fagone
Today, every business, including yours, is being observed and studied by others who want your revenues. The world operates with such speed that as soon as potential competitors sniff out the fact that another business is doing well and they believe there's a buck to be made they'll be all over it like a cheap suit
~ Jason Jennings
y luego todo es igual que antes porque la acumulación y el golpe sin destinatario y la asfixia sin boca no son bastante para variar las cosas ni las relaciones, no lo es la repetición, ni la insistencia, ni la ejecución frustrada ni la amenaza, eso sólo agrava pero no cambia nada, la realidad no se añade (...)
~ Javier Marías
as corrie was about to hang up, stacy said, i hope he shoots at my car. i've got a couple of black talon rounds just itching to explore his inner psyche.
~ Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
One day I will surpass you," Zannah warned him. "And on that day I will kill you, Lord Bane. But that day is not today.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area. What should we do? Shall we take the position that, submitting to threat, it is better to surrender pieces of free territory in the hope that this will satisfy the appetite of the aggressor and we shall have peace?
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
This collective dysfunction has created a very unhappy and extraordinarily violent civilization that has become a threat not only to itself but also to all life on the planet.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?
~ Eckhart Tolle
the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The ego perceives itself as a separate fragment in a hostile universe, with no real inner connection to any other being, surrounded by other egos which it either sees as a potential threat or which it will attempt to use for its own ends.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Por su naturaleza fantasmal, y a pesar de los elaborados mecanismos de defensa, el ego es muy vulnerable e inseguro, y se ve a sí mismo constantemente amenazado. Ese, a propósito, es el caso incluso si el ego exteriormente aparece muy seguro de sí mismo.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Moreover, as long as you are identified with your mind, the ego runs your life, as I pointed out earlier. Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Kho closed and sought my jugular with his teeth. He seemed to forget the hatchet dangling by
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
straight into the ambush de Morès
~ Edmund Morris
he is the most dangerous foe to human liberty that has ever set foot on American soil."16
~ Edmund Morris