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Quotes About Threat

No beast of prey can kill its victim without frightening him first. In fact, no animal perishes until its destroyer strikes terror into its heart. To put it succinctly, an animals fear kills it before its enemy gives it the final blow.
~ Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Don't ever 'influence' me against my will again, MacLachlan,. Or I will load your balls into my Cuisinart and press 'chop.
~ Diana Duncan
If there's a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.
~ Dick Cheney
Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.
~ Dirk Kempthorne
The people who would destroy themselves would be dangerous to others.
~ Dolores Cannon
sat up, and the room was full of a man with a gun. He was standing one pace in from the doorway. The light was off now, but gray daylight ebbed in the airshaft window, and unfortunately I could see him. He was wearing a hat and an overcoat and a gun, and the gun was pointed at me, and his eyes were looking at me, and his eyes appeared to be made of slate.
~ Donald E. Westlake
I sat up, and the room was full of a man with a gun. He was standing one pace in from the doorway. The light was off now, but gray daylight ebbed in the airshaft window, and unfortunately I could see him. He was wearing a hat and an overcoat and a gun, and the gun was pointed at me, and his eyes were looking at me, and his eyes appeared to be made of slate.
~ Donald E. Westlake
What the Trinidad Guardian had in 1967 called "the most empty diplomatic threat in history" had now become a reality. Two months after British economic aid to Anguilla had stopped because of the end of the Interim Agreement, the British decided to stop all economic aid.
~ Donald E. Westlake
I sat up and the room was full of a man with a gun.
~ Donald E. Westlake
The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.
~ Óscar Arias
Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.
~ Giulio Douhet
I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.
~ Massad Ayoob
Well, you put a gun to my head." "No. I put a suggestion in your mind and a gun in your hands.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Borderline rage is often terrifying in its unpredictability and intensity. It may be sparked by relatively insignificant events and explode without warning. It may be directed at previously valued people. The threat of violence frequently accompanies this anger. All of these features make borderline rage much different from typical anger. In
~ Jerold J. Kreisman
But in the light of Scripture, it is decisive that this creaturely freedom poses no threat or limitation to the sovereign and almighty Divine enterprise….
~ Jerry Bridges
Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.
~ Jerry Brown
there is the potential for flushing an enemy out into the open not by seizing any particular objective, but simply through placing a presence in his rear.
~ Jerry Pournelle
formulated by John Dewey that I express the thought in his words: "The serious threat to our democracy," he says, "is not the existence of foreign totalitarian states. It is the existence within our own personal attitudes and within our own institutions of conditions which have given a victory to external authority, discipline, uniformity and dependence upon The Leader in foreign countries.
~ Erich Fromm
I'd be glad to shoot you.' 'Would you?' 'No. There's a law against it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
in weakness, a man can present a great danger
~ Ernest Hemingway
Agua mala', the man said, 'you whore
~ Ernest Hemingway
Philip had warned the Spartans that if he brought his armies successfully into their territory he would destroy their cities and kill all their people. They replied, rather magnificently, with the single word 'If'.
~ Andrew Marr
threat, as well as a trillion-dollar biotechnology industry that keeps coming up with new ways to scare us.
~ Andrew Mayne
How the fuck did you get away?" "Fear, man. Fear. It's your best friend." He pauses for a moment. "But you know that. Don't you?
~ Andrew Mayne