Quotes About Threat

In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.

I'm positive he's still scared of me. I know he's been slapped, but I hold the sole distinction of taking him down." "And she put a boot on his chest to hold him down while she threatened his life," Jack said. "I'm telling you, I almost exploded with lust. I had to marry her." Ellie

Just in case you're wondering, you shouldn't show your face around here again," Jack said. "It could be bad for you." "Are you threatening me?" Arnold asked. "Nah," Mike said. "Promising." *

me. If you come down here one more time I'm going to call Allison and suggest she have you committed." "Seriously,

She threatened him with dire consequences if he got all puffed up and studly about this. It was easy for him to take it in stride—exactly how many eight-pound babies had he pushed out? And if he joked about this even once, she was going to make him pay. Perhaps for life. Jack

In his writing about communism's insidiousness, Mi?osz referenced a 1932 novel, Insatiability. In it, Polish writer Stanis?aw Witkiewicz wrote of a near-future dystopia in which the people were culturally exhausted and had fallen into decadence. A Mongol army from the East threatened to overrun them.

A dynastic alliance with Epiros would neutralise a potential threat to his rear while he was away campaigning in Asia.

Hay una situación de emergencia, una amenaza que podría ser devastadora para el sistema democrático.

La amenaza que significaba López Obrador era clara: quería dar un salto hacia atrás, para llegar a los bellos tiempos de un pasado imaginario. Evidentemente, un retorno al México de los años sesenta y setenta era algo imposible, pero del intento de restauración podía surgir un extraño esperpento, un adefesio político. Eso es exactamente lo que sucedió.

Pressure can take many forms: a bribe, a threat, a manipulative appeal to trust, or a simple refusal to budge. In all these cases, the principled response is the same: invite them to state their reasoning, suggest objective criteria you think apply, and refuse to budge except on this basis. Never yield to pressure, only to principle.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver." "Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion.

This was the power of evil, he thought before drifting off to sleep. Nothing be actually done to you, just the idea of it, the rumor of it, the sense of the possibility of it. That was enough.

Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)

But in neurotic anxiety, two conditions are necessary: (1) the threat must be to a vital value; and (2) the threat must be present in juxtaposition with another threat so that the individual cannot avoid one threat without being confronted by another. In patterns of neurotic anxiety, the values held essential to the individual's existence as a personality are in contradiction with each other.

A fear is a reaction to a specific danger, to which the individual can make a specific adjustment. But what characterizes anxiety is the feeling of diffuseness and uncertainty and the experience of helplessness toward the threat.

In the problem of anxiety we must, therefore, always ask the question of what vital value is being threatened

Just as the poet is a menace to conformity, he is also a constant threat to political dictators. He is always on the verge of blowing up the assembly line of political power.

Goldstein's central thesis is that anxiety is the subjective experience of the organism in a catastrophic condition . An organism is thrown into a catastrophic condition when it cannot cope with the demands of its environment and, therefore, feels a threat to its existence or to values it holds essential for its existence.

The threat, thus, in anxiety is not necessarily more intense than fear. Rather, it attacks us on a deeper level. The threat must be to something in the 'core' or 'essence' of the personality. My self-esteem, my experience of myself as a person, my feeling of being of worth - all of these are imperfect descriptions of what is threatened.

In anxiety, however, we are threatened without knowing what steps to take to meet the danger. Anxiety is the feeling of being "caught," "overwhelmed"; and instead of becoming sharper, our perceptions generally become blurred or vague.

the reaction is disproportionate to the objective danger because some intrapsychic conflict is involved. Thus the reaction is never disproportionate to the subjective threat.

In fear we know what threatens us, we are energized by the situation, our perceptions are sharper, and we take steps to run or in the other appropriate ways to overcome the danger. In anxiety, however, we are threatened without knowing what steps to take to meet the danger.

The threat of frustration of a biological urge does not cause conflict and anxiety unless that urge is identified with some value essential to the existence of the personality.