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Quotes About Threat

Danielle Lowen: How are you? I am fine. The group that destroyed Earth Station and made it look like the Colonial Union did it is now planning to nuke the surface of your planet until it glows, and frame the Conclave for it. Hope you are well. Looking forward to rescuing you in space again soon. Your friend, Harry Wilson.
~ John Scalzi
Let's just say that I anticipated that when I needed to leave Ponthieu, it would be suddenly, and that I might be chased. And that those chasing me might prefer that if I couldn't be caught, that I should be rendered into very small pieces.
~ John Scalzi
Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.
~ John Scalzi
Hello, Anon-a-Writer! In one hand I have a restraining order, and in the other I have a Taser. Which would you like to meet first?
~ John Scalzi
All of us have people who saw weaknesses, who saw pressure points, and who saw ways to use of own ways and stubbornness against us. This threat is real. This treat is both practical and existential. It it isn't met by all of us, all of us are likely to be destroyed.
~ John Scalzi
You want explanations," Colonel Abel Rigney said to Coloma from behind his desk at Phoenix Station. In a chair in front of the desk, Colonel Liz Egan sat, watching Coloma. "What I want is to walk you out of an airlock," Coloma said, to Rigney. She glanced over to Egan in her chair. "And possibly walk you out after him." She returned her gaze to Rigney. "But for now, an explanation will do.
~ John Scalzi
There is a certain type of person who feels like they must be armed at every moment of the day or else the world will come for them in some way.
~ John Scalzi
If the most versatile of living forms, the human, now fights for survival as it always has, it can eliminate not only itself but all other life. (p 165)
~ John Steinbeck
You can't make a general rule of it, because sometimes it flops, but mostly a guy that tries to scare you is
~ John Steinbeck
My second thought was to fire a gunshot, but the last time I did that his security robots jumped me. It only takes one cavity search by a robot to convince you that's an experience you don't want to have twice. This called for a more subtle approach.
~ John Zakour
No one hurts my family and lives
~ Elijah
There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.
~ Pope Francis
My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me.
~ Elon Musk
My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.
~ Chen Guangcheng
Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)
~ Martha Rosler
But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.
~ Garth Nix, Abhorsen
Never tease anything that wants to eat you." Reign of Blood
~ Unknown
How do I know you're not the killer?" MeShack asked.A smirk plastered on Zulu's face. "Because you would've been the first victim.
~ Unknown
I'm calling the police, " she said, showing him the phone in her hand.He smiled, and for a moment she forgot about the phone. "You don't need the police."No, of course she didn't How silly.
~ Unknown
If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.
~ Mary Todd Lincoln
Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
~ Peter B. Lewis
I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.
~ Edward Blake
Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.
~ Dorothee Solle
This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.
~ Theodore Roosevelt