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Quotes About Threat

His dagger was out, poised at her throat. "Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.
~ George R. R. Martin
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
~ James Hansen
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.
~ Jim Goad
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.
~ Stephen Hawking
People are not a threat, wrong ideas are.
~ T. H. Mandeel
The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed,But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw,Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:Besides what the grim wolf with privy pawDaily devours apace, and nothing said;But that two-handed engine at the doorStands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
~ John Milton
I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.
~ John O. Brennan
The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.
~ John O. Brennan
How bitter is lovelessness both to suffer and to inflict. More than anything I have dreaded the despair of its remembrance and the threat of its repeat.
~ John Osborne
When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first shockwaves of the bomb are not sin. The real danger is yielding to them. Giving in. Putting up no spiritual fight. And the root of that surrender is unbelief - a failure to fight for faith in future grace. A failure to cherish all that God promises to be for us in Jesus.
~ John Piper
preferir cualquier otra cosa más que a Dios es una atrocidad moral en el universo—y, por tanto, es una amenaza eterna contra nuestras almas. Escoger cualquier otra cosa por encima de Dios no solo nos destruye, sino que también nos lleva a distorsionar todo lo bueno que hay en el mundo, incluyendo el dinero, el sexo y el poder.
~ John Piper
The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.
~ John Pistole
It's not really possible to understand the threat posed not only to the survival of America, but to all free nations in the world, without perceiving that Islam has a simple and single goal . . . To conquer the world.
~ John Price
By most military experts' projections, Russia is a likely source of nuclear armaments for Jihadists.
~ John Price
Dr. Williams posits that al Qaeda will target 7 to 10 large American cities in which to detonate nuclear devices. The New York Daily News reported that security officials were concerned by reports that al Qaeda planned simultaneous nuclear attacks on seven U.S. cities: New York, Boston, Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Washington, DC. (March 14, 2003 "Officials Fear Al-Qaeda Nuclear Attack")
~ John Price
The simplistic nature of Islamism means that it thrives on victim narratives and clearly identifiable enemies. When there is no such simple, immediate outside threat against which sentiment can be rallied, and when peaceful coexistence is self-evidently in people's day-to-day interest, it finds it much less easy to gain traction.
~ John R. Bradley
Instead, there has emerged a new jihadi organization, dispersed and decentralized, which draws its inspiration from al-Qa'ida and its glorious raids. This rising threat, truly a global jihad in the making, is potentially deadlier than bin Laden's secret army; it exists wherever there are angry Muslims, and it feeds on the "virtual jihad," what some term
~ John R. Schindler
measures against the Bolsheviki. Daily
~ John Reed
All the time he had spent in institutions, sheltered from the world, when in reality there was no greater threat to him than the institutions themselves.
~ John Smith
This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.
~ John Sununu
Drop that or I'll blow ya straight to Jesus.
~ John Wayne
A manager must be experienced as a support, not as a threat Here
~ John Whitmore
The barbarian waits, and we grow weaker in the security of our ease and pleasure.
~ John Williams