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Quotes About Threaten

Borderline mothers who threaten or attempt suicide keep their children emotionally trapped, and their children may suffer from extreme anxiety even as adults.
~ Christine Ann Lawson
Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling.
~ Helen Powers
And why threaten to "take my daughter"? Should the kids be used to wreak vengeance? Do you really want to deprive Dylan of her father to punish me? Are there no limits to your vengeance?
~ Woody Allen
I kissed him on the mouth, and then I threatened to kiss him some more if he didn't do exactly what I wanted.
~ Holly Black
The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
~ John McCain
The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.
~ Chrystia Freeland
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
The financial and economic consequences of the stoppage of payments by the largest purchaser of goods and services on planet Earth could not be calculated, could barely even be imagined. It would be a nuclear event—and Republican Party leaders were willing to threaten it not only once, but a second time again in 2013.
~ David Frum
The Greens will threaten the future of our strong economy. They will destroy jobs and put Victorian families at risk.
~ Denis Napthine
How about it, wizard? Cop? Maybe you've got stones enough to take it when I threaten you. I can admire that.
~ Jim Butcher
One of the most distinctive features of psychosis is its dynamic of externalization. Madness is experienced as being enacted on the subject from without; a person perceives his own unintegrated psychological contents as outer-world creatures and demons who threaten to engulf and physically destroy him. The barriers between inner and outer, subject and object, dissolve so entirely that no boundary remains to protect the ego from the onslaught of this projected unconscious material.
~ Unknown
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
~ Abraham Maslow
Lock her up"—as a prong of Make America Great Again—became a promise to weaponize the machinery of law to silence, threaten, and isolate women. In the end it didn't even matter whom the pronoun "her" referenced. For crowds who embraced it, it was a generalized promise that after centuries of women's diligent efforts at bending and shaping and coaxing the law into affording them equal protection and dignity, their gender itself could become a crime.
~ Dahlia Lithwick
I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated.
~ Paul Broun
You people keep spoiling my plans. First Wizard Suliman would not come near the Waste, so that I had to threaten Princess Valeria in order to make the King order him out here. Then, when he came, he grew trees.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
We are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into things, the looser our structure may seem to become.
~ Unknown
I like to believe I enjoy surprises, that I'm someone to whom an eruption of the unusual should be usual, or who branches out to advance the implausible. I might fly a jet, become a man, walk backward without a care, threaten like a stalker, speak freely at all times, swim the Atlantic on a greasy back, be silent for months like a Carthusian ...
~ Lynne Tillman
How could I sleight you? How threaten to leave you? not in the spirit of a Threat to you -- no -- but in the spirit of Wretchedness in myself.
~ John Keats
Jealousy is often nothing but an uneasy desire for domination, applied in the context of love. I had no doubt inherited from my father this sudden, arbitrary need to threaten the beings I loved the most in their most comfortable hopes, so as to show that their security was illusory.
~ Marcel Proust
We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.
~ George W. Bush
Martin Luther. And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us; We will not fear, for God has willed His truth to triumph through us.
~ Unknown
Change can either challenge or threaten us...Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
~ Marsha Sinetar
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
~ Billie Holiday
Don't let him piss off the press, don't let him piss off the Republican Party, don't threaten congressmen because they will fuck you if you do, and most of all don't let him piss off the intel community," said one national Republican figure to Kushner. "If you fuck with the intel community they will figure out a way to get back at you and you'll have two or three years of a Russian investigation, and every day something else will leak out.
~ Michael Wolff