Quotes About Threat

She said, "Look down at your chest." I held the cell phone to my ear as I bend my head. Two red dots, quivering slightly, danced right over my heart. "You are one second away from death," said the caller.

And they don't know what kind of raw, unfiltered hell they'd be stepping into if they try to break in here." Lindsey

if you don't shut your mouth and work with us, then by the Lord Jesus, when we roll out of here in those buses I will personally tie you to the front grill, cover you with A1 sauce, and use you for bait. Look me in the eye and ask me if I'm joking.

Generally, if you see Joe Ledger show up pointing a gun at you, I guess you start reexamining your conscience.

Once you can identify an enemy, reactivate a chosen trauma and unite all factions in fear and hate of a common threat, you activate the most primitive part of the brain, the amygdala with its instant and overwhelming defensive reactions, and render a culture susceptible to a pure and powerful dualism in which you are the innocent party and violence becomes both a justified revenge and the necessary protection of your group. The threefold defeat of morality then follows.

Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit rock bottom anyway. It can't really get much worse.

If a systemic crisis occurs, the FDIC may rescue a bank in the non-least-cost-way—for example, by paying off creditors who are not covered by deposit insurance or keeping a bank temporarily alive when it is insolvent—when nonpayment of creditors or the bank's failure would threaten the system.

John only knew three ways to react to people. If they were his superior officers, he obeyed them. If they were part of his squad, he helped them. If they were a threat, he neutralized them.

When in unknown territory, before you did anything else, make darn sure you look around to see if someone was about to blow your head off.

attacked the men I had assigned to guard it.

You're going to find Tigerstar. Against that fiend, every cat is helpless.

It is better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger

Stormpaw won't," Goosekit growled. "He's going to try to kill me.

Fear-Dog told me . . . we must return to our camp," he growled, his voice throaty with drool. "Now?" whimpered the little brown dog. "Now. Immediately." Terror swiped a trembling paw at her face, though this time he missed. "He says . . . we are to kill any strange dogs. Kill them all. Kill them on sight. Now go!

Firestar was left facing Scourge. The small black cat looked unmoved. Now Firestar knew not to underestimate him due to his size. He knew he had never faced a cat more dangerous than this, who in a single blow could destroy a leader with nine lives.

Maybe this is what she meant. Our survival is going to come under threat, and we need to . . . to grow and spread like the Blazing Star.

Nightcloud is a tough warrior. If she thought the stoats were a threat to Breezepelt, she would have fought to defend him—to her last breath if she had to. And maybe she did.

Maybe if we told her about the time the impostor tried to kill Sparkpelt

It's better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger.

Keep your eyes open, Fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I'll find you, and then you'll be crow-food.

I'm going. But I'll be back; you can be sure of that. I'll be revenged on you all!" He padded unevenly away from the Highrock. As he drew close to Fireheart he paused, drawing his lips back in a snarl. "And as for you . . ." he hissed. "Keep your eyes open, Fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I'll find you, and then you'll be crow-food.

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.

The subtext of all table manners is the fear that the man next to you may pull his knife on you.

What happy and successful single people are threatening is not the institution of marriage but the cultural consensus on its special value. Same-sex marriage does not threaten the institution of marriage, either. The sticking point (or at least one of them) is that large numbers of Americans remain unconvinced that gay men and lesbians are the moral equivalent of straight people. To them, keeping marriage pure and sacred means keeping same-sex partners out.