Quotes About Threat

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top....

He recognized another factor that should not be underestimated: The serpent mesmerizes. Whenever it cannot seduce, it attempts to overwhelm. It is like a cobra projecting an image of its power in order to paralyze its victim with fear, disabling its defenses without a struggle, before devouring it. In the victim's eyes the threat grows so large that it becomes everything and appears to be irresistible. So too Satan desires that we think him omnipotent and omniscient.

Although external changes can be the problem, the greater threat to strategy often comes from within. A sound strategy is undermined by a misguided view of competition, by organizational failures, and, especially, by the desire to grow. Managers

From my examination of many declining industries, the firms that seem to be the most objective about managing the decline process are those that also participate in the substitute industry. They have a clearer perception concerning the prospects of the substitute product and the threat of decline.

It is the "threat of entry", not whether "entry" actually occurs, that holds down profitability. p.26

The executive editor of Poultry magazine put the trade-off this way in an editorial: "The prospect of a virulent flu to which we have absolutely no resistance is frightening. However, to me, the threat is much greater to the poultry industry. I'm not as worried about the U.S. human population dying from bird flu as I am that there will be no chicken to eat.

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is a virus."—Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate

The executive editor of Poultry magazine put the trade-off this way in an editorial: "The prospect of a virulent flu to which we have absolutely no resistance is frightening. However, to me, the threat is much greater to the poultry industry. I'm not as worried about the U.S. human population dying from bird flu as I am that there will be no chicken to eat."3580

Representative Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat, said, "This war was launched without an imminent threat to our families…. Radical 'know it all' ideologues here in Washington bent facts, distorted intelligence, and perpetrated lies designed to mislead the American people into believing that a third-rate thug had a hand in the 9/11 tragedy and was soon to unleash a mushroom cloud.

The second factor that led to the Roman society's ability to organize collectively in the face of threat was the internal situation, to include such factors as the family, tradition, obedience, spirituality, incentives and concessions. It was a combination of these factors that helped the society overcome an unjust political and social structure and band together in the face of threat.

The Romulans may rip this base in half, pal. They may even kill me. But I'll be damned if they're going to keep me from enjoying a refreshing beverage.

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

Somebody might start to take you serious, and lift your chin with a rifle barrel. Lift it right through the top of your damned head.

Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?

Cause he got everything to lose.

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

Josh: I didn't know.... Nicholas: No reason why you should have - except that your ignorance could have gotten you killed... or worse.

Zephaniah creía que las tradiciones misteriosas suponían una amenaza, y, por lo tanto, se dedicó a destruirlas. Pero no olvides que la sabiduría nunca es peligrosa -insistió Tsagaglal-. Lo verdaderamente peligroso es el modo en el que se usa.

Personally, I think they killed the bear because they were afraid of it. That's what people do, kill the things they're afraid of.

That's what people do, kill the things they're afraid of.

The aide went on giddily talking about the special bond golfing dads have with their sons until it was clear that he was getting the Trump freeze—an ability to pretend you didn't exist while at the same time intimating that he might kill you if you did.

They're using these sort of coded appeals to say to people two things: One, the biggest threat in your life is not concentrated wealth, it's minorities; and two, government coddles minorities, and all these government assistance programs, it's all about giveaways to minorities—oppose them—government is taking your taxes and giving it to undeserving minorities.

Instead, they borrowed a page from the same playbook they have used for decades. Now, when they want to talk about gay people, Republicans discuss a threat to "religious liberties" or "religious freedom." And if these terms are the raw ingredients of dog whistling, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is the test kitchen where the recipes are developed.

Have you forgotten," she said in a furious whisper, "that he nearly killed us? That he threw my quiver in the stream, and threatened to snap my bow?" It was unclear which she considered worse: threatening them or her bow.