Quotes About Menace

The ability to be frightening with stillness is what appeals to me.

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

you're all gonna die because of me." Holden

Summer lightning made it seem that flickering white-hot wires were turning in the terribly blue sky just above the horizon, and the recent storms had driven in toward shore hundreds of gigantic Portuguese man-o'-wars that now hung below the surface of the water like big malignant pearls.

There are worse things than death in this town and they're usually standing a few inches behind you, ready to reach out and grab you when you least expect it.

Viene la notte, la notte scura, piena di cose che fanno paura, di sogni fasulli, di incubi veri, di sangue di morte e di uomini neri... Non serve gridare, non serve fuggire, l'unica cosa da fare è morire...

I was honestly very nervous of Constance Wheatcroft. And I wasn't the only one. Her entire family was afraid of her. Dogs were afraid of her. Bindweed in the hedge would wither as she passed; birds would forget their nesting instincts and fly back to north Africa at the sound of her hideous cries.

L'ennemi le plus dangereux est celui que personne ne craint.

Donald Trump and the Bomb are nearly the same age. Which of them will prove to be more destructive remains to be seen, but in combination they are terrifying.

it involved the idea that people who were genuinely dangerous might not need to exhibit the fact at all, and that the ability to conceal a threat made them even more dangerous.

Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out.

he had known that the endless space below him that stretched out like a maw was exactly that: a mouth the size of the world, straining to swallow him.

disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...

You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.

The Bolsheviks are coming, like Atilla, like clouds of locusts. They are destroying everything in their path. (Vera Muromtseva)

By the eyes, some will say, but I think not, really, for to the spectral tarsier in the bush, or to the owl in the churchyard tower, man and his lights must truly hold a demonic menace.

Drowning isn't the only way water can kill you.

But this aura of an artificial menace was still necessary to conceal that they [Presidents] were no longer anything but the mannequins of power. Formerly, the king (also the god) had to die, therein lay his power. Today, he is miserably forced to feign death, in order to preserve the blessing of power. But it is lost.

The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work.

I generally play strong people and scary people.

the rabbis of Palestine were acknowledged to hold the advantage over those of Mesopotamia in several distinctive ways: they were more open to those who were not themselves scholars; they were better able to incinerate those who displeased them with a single glare; and they were more obsessively alert to the menace posed by menstruating women.

I'd seen more menace in a Care Bear.

The big bad assassin terrified of itty-bitty scavengers.

Hawker is going to kill me, Blue thought deliriously. When I get to the checkpoint, he's going to make that very stern frowny face and tut-tut and check his list and grumble about paperwork and then stab me with his spear thingy.