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Quotes About Menace

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm bad news, all right," said Coriolanus.
~ Suzanne Collins
A pod's activated ahead of us, releasing a gush of steam that parboils everyone in its path, leaving the victims intestine-pink and very dead.
~ Suzanne Collins
the fluffy golden squirrels turn out to be carnivorous and attack in packs, and the butterfly stings bring agony if not death. But
~ Suzanne Collins
This is one of his death traps.
~ Suzanne Collins
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
~ James Thurber
yes. Menace and danger, That's what passion is-dangerous love-love that put you at risk, that gets a hold of you and makes you do things you wouldn't normally do. It's the only love worth having..
~ Elliot Mabeuse, A Good Student
I gave him my code name. 'This is Mr. Slow Death.
~ Charles Bukowski
it's like being attacked by a RAT!
~ Chaucer Geoffrey
A black pit bull barreled against the fence, jaws dripping with saliva, viciously barking like Old Yeller after the hydrophobia kicked in.
~ Chris Fabry
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
~ Toni Morrison
the wide untrammeled space that once thrilled her became vacancy. A commanding and oppressive absence. She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
~ Toni Morrison
a shadow looming in that silhouette.
~ Kevin O'Brien
It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark.
~ Kobo Abe
The intolerant "true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in ourself.
~ Carl R. Rogers
But I could feel resentment inside me, and I knew it would keep growing until it changed into something far more dangerous.
~ Carsten Jensen
England was a menace to Scotland because Scotland was, by its separate existence, a constant anxiety to England.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.
~ George R.R. Martin
El enemigo al que no se ve es siempre el más temible.
~ George R.R. Martin
The trap had teeth.
~ George R.R. Martin
The Others never come when the sun is up.
~ George R.R. Martin
Mindig a láthatatlan ellenség a legfélelmetesebb.
~ George R.R. Martin
the guarantee of cheap labor was an effective means of luring new industries into the South; that so long as the ignorant white masses could be kept thinking of the menace of the Negro to Caucasian race purity and political control, they would give little thought to labor organization. It suddenly dawned upon Matthew Fisher that this Black-No-More treatment was more of a menace to white business than to white labor.
~ George S. Schuyler