Quotes About Threat

Without in any way minimizing the role of violence in our lives, I am looking, simultaneously, at how a heightened rhetoric of threat that confuses doing nothing, normative conflict, and resistance with actual abuse, has produced a wide practice of over- stating harm.

The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

Of course I'm a threat. Why? Did you think for a moment that I wasn't?" - Emma Frost

We may need to ready ourselves to repel boarders." "With what? One stiletto and hurtful insinuations about their mothers?

The next person who tells me something like, "Squiggle-fuck the rightwise cock-swatter with a starboard jib," is going to get a knife to the throat.

Get serious about telling me where that money is," said Conté, "or I'll kick your ass so hard every piece of shit that falls out of it for the rest of your life will have my gods-damned heel print on it.

I shall grind your bones to powder," he hollered, transfixing the three Gentlemen Bastards with his gleaming eyes. "And with that dust I'll make cement for paving stones, and for a hundred years to come you'll have no rest beneath the crush of strange wheels and the tramp of strange boots! Drunkards will make their unclean water upon you, and I shall laugh to think of it

Captain Orrin Ravelle," said Locke, drawing a dagger and placing it against the captain's throat. "Of the good ship Tal Verrar is Fucked ! You stop in and let them know I'm in the neighbourhood!

Well, it certainly is nice to be free from the threat of that lamp, my boy." Chains drew a last breath of smoke, then rubbed his dwindling sheaf of tobacco out against the roof stones. "Was it informing for the duke? Plotting to murder us?

bearded one cackled and the man in the orange cap said, "Everybody knows what Zapheads are, or else they're dead." "I don't have a gun." The bearded man aimed his weapon at DeVontay. "Then you better get your ass over here, hadn't

before getting shot, he would never nail both of the armed men from thirty yards away. He could also duck into the water and swim downstream, but he didn't think he could hold his breath long enough to get out of range. That was assuming the rapids ahead were even deep enough to conceal him. "What do you want?" DeVontay said, stalling for time.

The result of a physiological fear response that has no legitimate object, or that is disproportionate to the size of the threat, can be pathological anxiety—an evolutionary impulse gone awry.

Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

That's Al Qaeda's new plan: to destroy America one period at a time.

What we're hearing from everyone is that they understand that Saddam Hussein is a threat. They understand that he's been a threat for a long time.

If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time!" - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)

Desmond, don't poke the baby!'... 'I'll get you next time-' Don't threaten the baby either!'.

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.

Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?

I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.

[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its own white supremacists practices.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.