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Quotes About Threat

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.
~ Max Lucado
We have nothing to fear but fear itself...and of course the boogieman.
~ Pat Paulsen
We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.
~ Alan Autry
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
~ Hannah Arendt
Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.
~ John McCain
I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
~ Jack Scalia
The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.
~ Ludwig Borne
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
~ Thucydides
Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.
~ Lord Chesterfield
It's fear that makes a situation dangerous.
~ Marilyn Wallace
Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.
~ James M. Barrie
Men do not fear swords...they fear monsters.
~ Unknown
But, when she was alone, someone rapped on the door and she found herself on her feet, knife in hand, before she had time to reason with her fear.
~ Unknown
The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.
~ Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
It's those that has never been confronted with a life threatening situation that usually boast of their bravery to high heavens!!
~ Unknown
Forgiveness and moving on in life is complicated for every emotional reason. But the spiritual reason must be acknowledged as well because these painful experiences threaten our relationship to life itself.
~ Unknown
Our fears always outnumber our dangers.
~ Latin proverb
As soon as there is life there is danger.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not a morning person. Do not pull the covers off of me. I WILL KILL YOU.
~ Unknown
A threat was to materialize, however, coming from a source I had never seen as a potential danger—that is, from Gilberte and myself. I should really have been disturbed by what reassured me, by what I took for happiness. In love, happiness is an abnormal state, capable of instantly conferring on the pettiest-seeming incident, which can occur at any moment, a degree of gravity that in other circumstances it would never have.
~ Marcel Proust
You had to serve out here in the Middle East to understand fully the feeling of danger, even threat, that was never far away, even in countries generally regarded as friendly to America.
~ Marcus Luttrell
So, Abe's blood was spattered all over the walls of his office." Quinn traced a hand down the doorframe and looked at him meaningfully. "You might want to consider whether you really want the same people to come looking for you." He smiled without warmth as he made a business card appear. "Call me when you get it through your head that you're in danger.
~ Marcus Sakey
"Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine.... "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said.... Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.
~ Margaret Atwood