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Quotes About Menace

Don Achille was the ogre of fairy tales
~ Elena Ferrante
the nights were dark and full of terrors
~ Gardner Dozois
The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.
~ Florence Kelley
Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.
~ Noam Chomsky
He was dropped under a streetlamp, the only person left on the bus. A patch of mauled light. Gritty pavement, scarred with a million cigarette burns. Weeds and spit and oil. Place like this, the only glitter was the knife just before it sank in. Place like this, there wasn't any gold.
~ Rupert Thomson
What does a bully, a bullet, and a tornado have in common? Their all destructive, they can all kill you.
~ Ryan Pack
Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone noticing it, the dawn of the day before had been the beginning of the last light ever in the history of the world.
~ Anna Quindlen
It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the menace of memory.
~ Anne Rice
Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.
~ Anne Rice
Don't you see? I said softly. It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil. I paused, watching him. I am the vampire for these times.
~ Anne Rice
Better they should run from me than not see me. Better they should know I was something monstrous than for me to glide through the world unrecognized by those upon whom I preyed.
~ Anne Rice
You will obey the rules, won't you?" he asked suddenly. Mixture of menace and sarcasm. And maybe a little affection, too. "Of course!" Again I shrugged. "What are they, by the way? I've forgotten. Oh, we don't make any new vampires; we do not wander
~ Anne Rice
This man was truly like a scorpion, a poisonous sting when one least expected it.
~ Anne Stuart
Something wicked this way comes
~ Shakespeare
I'm telling you people; its a zombie attack. Z to the Oto the M to the B to the I,E. ZOMBIE... -Bubba
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You'd better. Otherwise Stryker and I will feast on your innards, bathe in your blood and I will use your eyes as earrings. (Zephyra) You know, with imagery like that, you should write for Hallmark. (Jericho)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm getting all warm and fuzzy inside at the prospect of these demon things roaming the street, preying on us. (Tate)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
~ John F. Kennedy
It's the Kalkara. they're hunting.
~ John Flanagan
He looks like me." Then he added darkly, if not logically, "And he'd better stop doing it if he knows what's good for him!
~ John Flanagan
Dat begrijp ik. Dit is een vredig plaatsje en u ziet de rust hier niet graag verstoord.' Erak glimlachte terug, maar een haai had nauwelijks valser kunnen glimlachen. 'Nee, integendeel. Dit is een buitengewoon gewelddadige stad en als uw mannen voor moeilijkheden zorgen, gaan zonder pardon hun koppen eraf.
~ John Flanagan
turned to real, palpable fear among the Wargals. Morgarath
~ John Flanagan
Tememos que nos maten. Pero es mucho peor que nos destruyan.»
~ John Katzenbach
Tememos que nos maten. Pero es mucho peor que nos destruyan.
~ John Katzenbach