Quotes About Threat

Weak democracies are vulnerable to coup d'états because their institutions cannot absorb a frontal assault.

It's not paranoia if everyone really is out to get you.

If Zoey Ashe had known she was being stalked by a man who intended to kill her and then slowly eat her bones, she would have worried more about that and less about getting her cat off the roof.

I am afraid of Mr. Powell. I am more afraid of him than I have ever been of shadows or the thunder or when you look through the little bubble in the glass of the window in the upstairs hall and all of the out-of-doors stretches and twists its neck.

This is the problem with danger, isn't it? You can even be warned and ignore the warning. Danger can seem far away until the sky grows dark, and a bolt of fury heads straight toward you.

Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat.

Do you plan on marrying Charles?"She shook her head."Good. I wouldn't want to shoot him, but I would."... Finding Promise

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

con una amenaza: «Si las tropas no están embarcadas

While patriotism often gets triggered by something negative—you get patriotic when your group is under threat—emulation works the opposite way. We find it hard to see emulation as an emotion; the ancients were much bigger on imitation than we were.

The costs of military service are substantial. Many costs are readily apparent; others are less apparent but no less important. Among the most pervasive and potentially disabling consequences of these costs is the threat to the psychological health of our nation's fighting forces, and their families, and their survivors. -- Department of Defense Task Force, 2007

The goal of this book is simple: to understand the horrific jihadist threat to Christians and Jews in the Middle East, a threat that will undoubtedly come to the United States if it is left unchecked abroad. Through ISIS and Hamas, Christians and Jews face a wave of persecution and violence that is, quite simply, genocidal in scope and intent.

The hero in a romance is the most important challenge the heroine must face and conquer. The hero is her real problem in the book, not whatever trendy issue or daring adventure is also going on in the subplot. In some way, shape, or form, in some manner either real or perceived on the heroine's part, the hero must be a source of emotional and, yes, sometimes physical risk. He must present a genuine threat.

Madame Alexandra, if you don't open the door, I'll smash all your imitation china, I'll rip up your fake Persian rugs. Let me in, or it'll cost you a damn sight more than anything I want from you.

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

Still people are dangerous.

Thereafter, he ennobled shame. He bore it in my presence like a burden, like a tiger clinging to his shoulders, the threat of which imparted to his shoulders a most insolent submissiveness.

I have to admit that this notebook, with its wilderness of blank pages, seems almost more threat than gift—for what can I write here that it will not hurt to remember? You

Pour qui sont ces serpents qui sifflent sur vos têtes ?

She also had this friend named The Asp, who whenever she was really in a tight spot would just show up and cut everybody's head off.

Ask me if I sparkle and I'll kill you where you stand." (Bones)

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.

I can't believe he's making you wait till January for an appointment." "I could threaten to bomb the school. That'd get me in quicker.