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Quotes About Menace

Mao Tse. Leigh tried to push away the horrible thoughts swimming in her head. Mao Tse was fine. She was just hiding. No one wanted to hurt her. They wanted something else.
~ Edie Claire
This house is protected by killer dust bunnies.
~ Anonymous
The king of terrors.
~ Anonymous
This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.
~ Anthony Doerr
To the bombardiers, the walled city on its granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, a final abscess to be lanced away.
~ Anthony Doerr
This, she realizes, is the basis of his fear, all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.
~ Anthony Doerr
He had entered a veritable miasma of evil, and harm, in the worst possible way, was to come to us all too soon.
~ Anthony Horowitz
And you think he'll tell?" Matt asked. "We will make him tell us." Han Shan-tung muttered the words casually, but there was something about the way he spoke that made the skin crawl.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Alex was surrounded by 7 of the most dangerous and unpredictable people on the planet. It was just a question of which one would kill him first.
~ Anthony Horowitz
And if any landscape can provide darkness, with a very real hint of menace, it is most surely the Fens.
~ Francis Pryor
I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.
~ Frank Herbert
What is this solution?' asked Sparrow. 'The breakdowns are a rejection of birth by men who have unconsciously retreated into the world of prebirth. What child would seek birth if he knew that pain and fear – a constant menace – awaited him on the other
~ Frank Herbert
Starlight displaced just enough of the night to charge each shadow with menace.
~ Frank Herbert
A threat to kill is unreal--actual blood and shredded flesh has its own reality.
~ Frank M. Robinson
Google's ability to pick winners and losers in the information world is a menace. These companies have the ability to determine which media companies are successful and which ones are failures. If I adopt a business plan that doesn't line up with Google's, then they're not going to reward me.
~ Franklin Foer
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." *
~ Robyn Carr
He had the swarthy good looks and fierce eyes of a pirate or maybe a serial killer.
~ Robyn Carr
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.
~ Roland Merullo
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.
~ Rollo May
You've been to Lough Glass.' There was a pause. And then with a heavy menace he said: 'And if you know what's good for you I wouldn't go again.' Then he moved away. Louis had gone white. What did the fellow mean? He saw Stevie put his arm around Kit's shoulder and she held his hand tightly. Kit McMahon, Lena's daughter. And her boyfriend. But they didn't know, for God's sake. None of them knew.
~ Maeve Binchy
And if I see you step foot on my property again, I'll do more than make a phone call," he says, waving the baseball bat around menacingly.
~ Sarah Darer Littman
She just has fixed herself on me to kill me. She can do it at long distance. One of these days I'll be struck down by suffocation or apoplexy because of her.
~ Saul Bellow
These words put an end to the peaceful morning. At the north there swells up the Russian menace. With arms from Russia and Europe, the PLO and other Arab militants and the right-wing Christians are now destroying Lebanon. The Syrians have involved themselves; in the eyes of the Syrians, Israel is Syrian land.
~ Saul Bellow
My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]
~ John Burnside