Quotes About Threat

Leave our presence under pain of treason," ordered Mary.

But Catherine was not to be underestimated. Already she perceived Mary to be a threat

Philip II and the papacy, and therefore posed a greater threat to Elizabeth's "safety

Assassination One

Anyone who threatens the status quo, no matter how humane and sensible the reason, is usually accused of being a radical of the most extreme sort.

When certain individuals feel severely threatened—emotionally, financially, physically—the lights on the horizon they use to orient themselves in the world might easily wink out. Life can then become a series of fear-driven decisions and compulsive acts of self-protection. People start to separate what is deeply troubling in their lives from what they see as good.

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

prime threat hovering over a society of general well-being.

Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.

For now, free at last from all threat of government reaction or retribution, the market sailed off into the wild blue yonder. Especially after June 1 all hesitation disappeared. Never before or since have so many become so wondrously, so effortlessly, and so quickly rich.

Brunei ants even have guards that explode their own heads when threatened

Whenever a new variant of the influenza virus does adapt to humans, it will threaten to spread rapidly across the world. It will threaten a pandemic.

One of the riskiest nations on that list is the United States, where our actions threaten 14 percent of 8,812 assessed plants and animals with extinction and 283 species (3 percent) are known to have gone extinct.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

COâ'' emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

Global warming threatens the survival of our species.

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm.

You dare to threaten me?" These gods, I thought. They always say the same thing.

He didn't bother to threaten me, yet. I hated him for it. I should be worth threatening.