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Quotes About Threat

Resistance indicates a perceived threat to a largely unconscious belief system, one that has no doubt successfully guided the organization in the past.
~ Unknown
These children, the spirited ones, when surprised or faced with a potential threat startle more easily, their pulse races, blood pressure rises, stress hormones flood into their systems, and on an EEG, their brain even shows more activity on the right side.
~ Unknown
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
~ Mary Wesley
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
~ Mason Cooley
Danger is opportunity's seer.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
One frustration with anxiety is that it is often hard to find a reason behind it. There may be no visible threat and yet you can feel utterly terrorized.
~ Matt Haig
There may be no visible threat and yet you can feel utterly terrified. It's all intense suspense, no action. It's like Jaws without the shark. But often there are sharks. Metaphorical, invisible sharks.. Maybe we would cope with the world better if we knew where those sharks were.
~ Matt Haig
Then he heard it. Out in the Wood, straight ahead and much closer than before: The beast.
~ Unknown
What you going to do?" she cried. "You break my neck, and the what? You think I won't come back and haunt you? Go ahead! Make me a ghost! See what that gets you.
~ Unknown
All of these new "Big Brother" laws had been sold under the guise of combating terrorism and increasing security, but none of them dared to address the specific threat posed by Islamic terror. Instead, the federal government seemed to prefer to increase security by treating all Americans equally: equally as criminal suspects in a vast open-air penal system.
~ Unknown
Who is this woman who took on the Emporer Barbarosa, comparing him to an infant and a madman, and threatened that God's sword would smite him? Who is this woman
~ Matthew Fox
If they do anything to hurt you," he growled fiercely, "I will come back and burn this place to the ground." "Quentin!" Georgina gasped in shock. "Don't talk like that!
~ Unknown
His eyes flashed. "Don't be. I meant what I said about setting this muthafucka ablaze if anyone hurts my mama." Lexi gasped. "Q!
~ Unknown
If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.
~ Max Brooks
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.
~ Meg Cabot
Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.
~ Melina Marchetta
Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made comments about his mother. Raffy touches the car with her finger in a very dramatic way. "You've just made our hit list," he says, getting a hanky out of his pocket and cleaning off some imaginary mark.
~ Melina Marchetta
If you fail me, I'll kill you. I swear it, Keenan. If you fail me, I'll rip your heart out with my own hands." "If I fail you, I'll cut it out for you.
~ Melissa Marr
She took a breath, exhaled slowly, and then told him, "If you fail me, I'll kill you. I swear it, Keenan. If you fail me, I'll rip your heart out with my own hands." "If I fail you, I'll cut it out for you." He stared up at her.
~ Melissa Marr
An armed fool could be more dangerous than an experienced shooter.
~ Melissa Marr
In real life, according to McNamara, the leader first must discover the problem. He or she must figure out what problem needs to be solved before beginning to make decisions. McNamara explained that identifying the true problem facing an organization often proved to be the most difficult challenge that leaders face. In many instances leaders do not spot a threat until far too late. At times, leaders set out to solve the wrong problem.
~ Unknown
We are scared little mammals with millions of years of evolution telling us to scurry away from anything or anyone who threatens our well-being, but outrage culture gives us a script that we can follow: simply adopt a sneering, angry tone and repeat all of the talking points from our favorite blog or radio show while insisting that anyone who disagrees is crazy, stupid, or evil.
~ Michael Austin
We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.
~ Michael Bloomberg
If our lives are to bring glory to God and serve as real threats to the purposes of the enemy, we must grow in what it means to be a safe-place people so we can be transformed and empowered to live like Jesus did—as one who is at the same time a safe place and the dangerous kind.
~ Unknown