Quotes About Threat

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.

The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration.

You won't have nightmares any more when you grow up.' I solemnly believed this. He looked at me levelly, and said softly, 'When I grow up, I'm going to kill you.' His smile slowly came out then, like the sun in a winter cloud. In my memory, the sentence stretches, and seems to be said a hundred times not quite at once. That sentence has its own particular, special moment in time, which lasts until now.

Even though no threat had revealed itself, it seemed important to eliminate any possible moment of silence. As if somehow the blankness of the walls fed off of silence, and that something might appear in the spaces between our words if we were not careful. Had I expressed this anxiety to the psychologist, she would have been worried, I know. But I was more attuned to solitude than any of us, and I would have characterized that place in that moment of our exploration as watchful.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

But they are murderers, madam! I am afraid of murderers! (Jeffery, the footman in The Pirate Next Door)

Walker's body wouldn't manifest the right reaction. He should be wanting to fight the threat or flee from it. Instead, his instincts were telling him to throw down the rifle, grab Rebecca, haul her into his arms, and kiss the hell out of her.

Mfeme cracked his knuckles. "I'll ask you again: where is the talisman?" "And I'll tell you again. I have no idea," Ling said. "Do you think I'm joking? I'll cut you ears off and throw them to the sharks." "Good. I won't have to listen to you anymore.

She believes the king of the Hinterlands is going to attack her. Her fear of this is so great, she talks of nothing else. I promised to defend the Greenlands with the full might of Skandinay's army—if she promised that I would inherit her crown. But now I have a problem—you're not dead after all. How can I be heir to the Greenlands's throne if you're still alive?

A boy who was such a threat to my mental health and happiness should not be so tall.

You had better not," I shouted after him."Do you hear me,O'Malley? I will tell Gavin's sister you slept with a stuffed bunny abbit until you were in middle school,so help me God!

that Victoria's wife has said that she will phone the police if Victoria ever so much as even mentions this topic again.

Your silence on the issue of people trying to kill you is deeply disturbing.

Wie zou mij nou dood willen hebben?' was tegenwoordig geen onzinnige vraag meer. Tegenwoordig was dat een vraag waar antwoorden op bestonden.

It's not the gun you should be scared of—it's the crazy man with the gun

Come on up to Riv'era Beach and say those things, you be dead.

Here's the deal,' Raylan said. 'I'm giving you twenty-four hours to get out of this county and never come back.' Raylan looked at his watch. 'That means you have until … two-fifteen tomorrow afternoon to clear out. If I see you're still around after that, I won't hesitate to shoot you on sight. You have any questions?

You take one more step, Raylan said, I'll shoot you. That's all I'm gonna say.

Es mußte so kommen«, sagte er nachdenklich mit leiser Stimme. »Dieses Übermaß von Betriebsamkeit und Stolz auf unser Wissen mußte uns in den Zweifel zurückschleudern. Dies Jahrhundert, das schon soviel Licht gebracht hat, mußte mit der Drohung einer von neuem hereinbrechenden Finsternis enden.

I warn you to refrain from provoking me, or I'll ask your abduction as a special favour.

Education is the biggest threat to authoritarianism.

I don't have to answer to you. For anything." Willy's eyes narrowed. "Okay," Eddi said. "I should be patient. But all three of us just spent the last—however long it was—with people trying to kill us. It frays your temper. So if you want to discuss the night's events, do it. But if you'd rather play B-movie gestapo officer, you can play somewhere else.

Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you,scoffed Opal.