Quotes About Threat

I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours. Then I might move on to the cutting.

Yes there are violent and dangerous criminals out there, but there are many more people in the world who will kill you for pissing them off.

Humanity's universal sin is far, far worse than those traditional vice lists cited for Greeks and Jews by Paul in Romans 1–3. It is this: we have accepted violence as civilization's drug of choice, and our addiction now threatens creation itself.

And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode or who she would take down with her when she did.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.

Iran is determined to use peaceful nuclear technology and no intimidation or threat can make us give it up.

Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

How the hell would she support herself and her mother if Agua Dulce's new owner built one of those mega service stations right next door? Or worse yet, right on top of them.

Cowards can be more dangerous than brave men, Julie," he said.

He walks the earth with the power to destroy it. But then so does the human race. And

How dare you! she shrieked, unaware of the silent young man standing in the shadows, staring at her. Threatening me! You coldhearted bastard, I could have any number of men call you out for the insult. I doubt it, he drawled, feeling wicked enough to goad her. I'm quite deadly in a duel, and most of your paramours know it. You're not worth dying for, my dear, as neither of us is certain you have any honor to save.

This is a gun," he said quietly, "and it's loaded. Move and I shoot. You're not allowed out of your seat, and neither is he.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too

Humans evolved in a world where nothing moved two thousand miles an hour, so there was no reason for the body to be able to counter that threat, but the brain still had to stay ahead of the game. Neurological processes in one of the most primitive parts of the brain, the amygdala, happen so fast that one could say they compete with bullets.

Permission Marketing represents a huge threat as well as a huge opportunity.

Your Grace: Others come. Prepare for Invasion. —M.

Now breathe or I'll do it for you.

Anybody bugs you, anybody at all, I'll rip off both his arms. You got me?" She tried to smile. "That's sweet, Davy. Bloodthirsty, but sweet.

In secrecy, in silence, a whole race may be destroyed without notice. Whole cultures and species have been destroyed while men smiled and spoke of economics, of employment, of progress, of the welfare of mankind. Is a threat less deadly because it does not scream and rage and threaten force of arms?

Do you understand how one small dog—afraid of the wolves who had attacked him and those who would attack him anew—might stand on his hind legs, might evolve in a moment, so he could run away and never return?