Quotes About Menace

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

Active practitioners of nonviolence are always seen as a threat, a direct menace, to the state. The state maintains the right to kill as its exclusive and jealously guarded privilege. Nothing makes this more clear than capital punishment, which argues that killing is wrong and so the state must kill killers.

No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.

Not one of us, even after last night, can say the word ghost without a little involuntary smile. No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.

No ghost in all the long histories of ghosts has ever hurt anyone physically. The only damage done is by the victim to himself. […] No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.

the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.

She shivered and though, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.

Someday, she said evilly, rubbing her hands against her eyes, I am going to get my eyes open all the time and then I will eat you and Lizzie both.

Un giorno» ribatté con voce maligna, sfregandosi gli occhi con le dita «riuscirò a stare con gli occhi aperti tutto il tempo e vi mangerò tutti e due, te e Lizzie»

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

There are horrors out here—far worse than the horrors on earth.

Stay sick Dan. When you get well, I am going to kill you.

Once he gets inside your head, you're dead.

The directors whose films scare me the most, are the ones who carefully hide the aggression in the background, and don't show it directly.

the guard house of the bloodiest valley in Britain. One is not surprised to learn that an early owner was boiled alive by impatient neighbours; there is a menace about the massive walls, about the rain-soaked hillside, about the dreary gurgle of the river.

This storm is dangerous

Richard paused. He drew his hand across his eyes, shuddering. "Milward saw the scratch. He cried out that the cards were marked! Suddenly everyone seemed to be gathered about our table—all talking! Jack had his hand on my shoulder; he and Dare were running through the pack. But all the while I could look at no one but Tracy—Andover. He seemed so sinister, so threatening, in those black clothes of his.

His eyes were green and cold and brilliant with murder.

The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

When evil comes, you can't always talk to it—sometimes it must be destroyed.

I knew it; I bloody knew it," he muttered. "It followed us. Whatever was in that house, it followed every one of us.

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

The hall towered, its gables wide and high and awaiting a barbarous burning. [ll. 81-83]

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