Quotes About Threat

You could have been killed." Reacher nodded. "Many times," he said. "But all long ago. Not today. Not by these guys." "You're crazy." "Or competent.

Cozo's guys could let your name slip." "So?" "They could tell him where you live." "And that's supposed to scare me? Look at me, Blake. Get real. There's maybe ten people on the planet I need to be scared of. Extremely unlikely this guy Petrosian happens to be one of them.

You threatening me now?" "More like the weather report. A public service. Like a tornado warning. Prepare to take cover.

They looked like a faded billboard for an old-time black and white movie. Some sentimental story. Maybe their mother died young and the old guy raised them all solo. Now they're grateful. Or now for the first time ever a fractured family is seeing eye to eye, because of a terrible external threat. Some kind of dramatic hokum. They were acting it out.

Reacher sat on the arm, slow and casual, wanting to look like less of a threat, wanting to anchor himself at that end of the room, knowing a standing guy will be told to sit, and often where, whereas a sitting guy was rarely moved.

racket, terrorized by a threat against himself and his

Any kind of operation was a point of vulnerability.

The same impulse to unman a social or cultural threat gambols across the exchange with Eliot. "Why you haven't been offered the lead in some sexy movies I can only attribute to the stupidity of casting directors," writes the movie star to the dour literary man.

is worry's sly assassin.

I warn you, dear child. If I lose my temper, you lose your head. Understand?

She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!

I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry.

Sam. Don't make me kill you on a full stomach. I might get a cramp.

And if you do anything to hurt my mom's cat, I'll take you apart cell by cell. I'll mutilate your DNA so it can never reproduce, which would probably be a good thing for the world.

I'm calling the police, she said, showing him the phone in her hand. He smiled, and for a moment she forgot about the phone. You don't need the police. No, of course she didn't How silly.

Syria was one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

Touch her," he vowed in a low voice, "and I'll feed you to the gators, piece by piece." Macon

By God, if I were twenty years younger," he thundered, "I'd drag you outside and horsewhip you!" Steven

Stay there," he rasped, "or I swear to God, you'll still have the imprint of my hand on your ass when you're ninety!" Joellen

Even men who use fear as their weapon can themselves be threatened. We all have something we don't want to lose.

No one launches a large-scale, systematic assault against something that's not considered a threat.

why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it?

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.