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Quotes About Menace

The goons are at the gate again. Beware my friends, lest they be you. (from "Censorship")
~ Stan Rice
He maybe, possibly, said that if he got word of anyone getting in your way, they'd find out whether there was any truth to the rumor about him knowing how to kill a man with paper clips.
~ Julie James
Terror can fill any space
~ Michael Crichton
The dinosaur will then finish the victim off at its leisure—making Dilophosaurus a beautiful but deadly addition to the animals you see here at Jurassic Park.
~ Michael Crichton
To the little girl the house seemed a gigantic head, and she only a morsel of meat conveniently positioned in its gaping mouth. The front porch was that grinning mouth, the white porch railing its lower teeth, the ornamental wooden frieze above its upper teeth, the painted wicker chair on which she perched its green wagging tongue. Frances sat and rocked and wondered when the jaws would clamp shut.
~ Michael McDowell
A man frantically spurring an equally frightened horse—and behind him, the distance decreasing, a pack of what at first appeared to be dogs. But these were not dogs—they were half-dog and half-bird, with the lean, shaggy bodies and legs of dogs but possessing birdlike talons in place of paws and savagely curved beaks which snapped where muzzles should have been.
~ Michael Moorcock
True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.
~ Brad Anderson
The man towered over her five-foot-four-inch frame by a good ten inches. He was big, dark and deadly-looking, with piercing ebony eyes and long, silky black hair secured in a ponytail. Dressed all in black—leather jacket, cotton shirt and jeans—he blended into the night like a prince of darkness. Rorie shuddered at the thought. Whoever or whatever this man was, he was danger personified.
~ Beverly Barton
Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.
~ Bill Bryson
But even men far tougher and more attuned to the wilderness than Thoreau were sobered by its strange and palpable menace. Daniel Boone, who not only wrestled bears but tried to date their sisters, described corners of the southern Appalachians as "so wild and horrid that it is impossible to behold them without terror." When Daniel Boone is uneasy, you know it's time to watch your step.
~ Bill Bryson
Evil arrives faster than it departs.
~ Brad Thor
I don't like him...he makes me feel like he's going to throw me in a coffin and walk around on top of it.
~ Tama Janowitz
Because the real wolf comes to kill. To steal. To destroy.
~ Ted Dekker
Mon but dans la vie est d'être une menace pour le plus grand nombre possible de gens
~ Julia Quinn
They weren't wearing their handy-dandy I'm an Evil Demon T-shirts; nevertheless, I could tell they were coming for me.
~ Julie Kenner
Who are you?" "I'm the stuff of your nightmares... Actually, I'm the stuff your nightmares wake up screaming about
~ Justin Somper
He didn't mean to corner me, but when you're as tall and wide as he is and I'm as little as I am, merely standing beside me constitutes menacement.
~ Justine Larbalestier
The evil rising up from him; pouring off him in waves. It is like the foul stench of rotting meat, but it isn't just a scent. This runs soul deep. The hairs on my arms are standing on end just being this close to him.", FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
'The Cabin at the End of the World' is my riff on the 'home invasion' subgenre of horror/suspense. Hopefully it's a big, loud, dark riff.
~ Paul G. Tremblay
Make sure there are no zombie vampires lurking in your neighborhood!!!!
~ Francesca Simon
If we do not move in divine forgiveness, we will walk in much deception. We will presume we have discernment when, in truth, we are seeing through the veil of a "critical spirit." We must know our weaknesses, for if we are blind to our sins, what we assume we discern in men will merely be the reflection of ourselves. Indeed, if we do not move in love, we will actually become a menace to the body of Christ.
~ Francis Frangipane
Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.
~ Frank B. Kellogg
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
If a starving bear ate my family, even though he may have had no wicked intentions, even though he was just being a bear, his nature has made him a menace, and I'm going to shoot him." He sounded exasperated by the conversation.
~ Brandon Mull