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Quotes About Menace

I am afraid of Mr. Powell. I am more afraid of him than I have ever been of shadows or the thunder or when you look through the little bubble in the glass of the window in the upstairs hall and all of the out-of-doors stretches and twists its neck.
~ Davis Grubb
Still people are dangerous.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Pour qui sont ces serpents qui sifflent sur vos têtes ?
~ Jean Racine
Ask me if I sparkle and I'll kill you where you stand." (Bones)
~ Jeaniene Frost
Stay quiet or the last sound you'll hear is your brain exiting through your eye sockets. It's sort of a bang/slurp sound. Trust me, you wouldn't like it.
~ Jeff Strand
You could beat an orphan to death with a dead nun and not deserve what will happen to you if Mr. Burke catches us. I don't want to overhype him, but the man is mentally unhinged!
~ Jeff Strand
The kitchen lights came on, revealing two goons behind the bald guy. Younger guys who were also dressed entirely in black. The one on the left had one of those ridiculous curved collectors' knives, the kind they sell on the Home Shopping Network that looked like they're used to skin buffalo. Glinting in the overhead florescence, it didn't look ridiculous at all. His partner had opted for the maniac implement de jour—a sixteen inch chainsaw.
~ Jeff Strand
Hi. I'm here to murder you. May I come in?
~ Jeff Strand
This realization frightened her and made her unable to sleep at night, which, in turn, frightened her more. She feared the restlessness that was creeping upon her. She could almost hear her mind pacing within her skull, caged and bothered, and she felt the weight of all the years she had yet to live, bearing down upon her with heavy menace.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The roar of an angry crowd is one of the most terrifying sounds in the world.
~ Elizabeth Peters
Su mismo carácter de cosas ordinarias, sentía yo, enmascaraba aquello que era maligno y hostil a nosotros.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Much must remain esoteric and veiled. The risks of too much knowledge are far greater than the menace of too little. With knowledge comes responsibility and power,—two things for which the race is not yet ready. Therefore, all we can do is to study and correlate with what wisdom and discretion may be ours, using the knowledge that may come for the good of those we seek to help, and recognising that in the wise use of knowledge comes increased capacity to receive the hidden wisdom.
~ Alice A. Bailey
Green like nightshade green, stab-your-heart darkness to make you afraid.
~ Alice Notley
It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will no longer pick on Walter the Softy, and his ferocious grimace is to be replaced by a charming, boyish smile.
~ Simon Hoggart
I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.
~ Joan Severance
Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.
~ Scott Pruitt
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
~ Winston Churchill
I know a killer when I see one and he's one cold Charlie Starkweather motherfucker.
~ Richard Kadrey
Dear Lord, The Ripper walks the earth.
~ Richard Phillips
The office women looked at him and shivered. They knew he was a bastard, they his big hands were born to slap with, they knew his face would never break into a smile when he looked at a woman. They knew what he was, they thanked God for their husbands, and still they shivered. Because they knew how he would fall on a woman in the night. Like a tree".
~ Richard Stark
Never leave a guy alive who'd like to see you dead.
~ Richard Stark
Please...they'll kill me. I'll kill you...worry about me.
~ Richard Stark
There was an air of menace about them as they loped slowly across the plain with long lolloping strides, heading for the BFG.
~ Roald Dahl
Pero a mí me pareció que había algo raro en su forma de hablar y en su aburrimiento: una sombra malévola en su ceño, y en su actitud una determinación que me produjo cierto desasosiego al mirarle
~ Roald Dahl