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Quotes About Threatened

The people who were least expected to worship the Christ-child come to do so, while those who should have been awaiting him are threatened by his arrival.
~ Craig L. Blomberg
The biggest bigots were the ones who felt most directly threatened by the underclass. The ones who felt the most moved in on.
~ Wally Lamb
Your mind is a storehouse for the painful memories and hidden resentments from your childhood—the things your parents did that deeply hurt you or made you feel that your physical or psychological survival was threatened
~ Harold H. Bloomfield
I am hyper vigilant and would be dangerous if threatened.... If someone broke into my house or attacked me in the street, it's THEM I would fear for.... But as Yo La Tengo recently put it so succinctly: I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass.
~ Haven Kimmel
Esse protecionismo não visa proteger os artistas. Na verdade, esse é um protecionismo que visa proteger certas formas de negócio. As corporações ameaçadas pelo potencial da Internet em mudar a forma como tanto a cultura comercial quanto a não-comercial é feita e compartilhada se uniram para induzir os legisladores a usarem a lei para as protegerem. É o caso da RCA contra Armstrong; é o sonho dos Causbys.
~ Lawrence Lessig
And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac.
~ Lemony Snicket
If one's safety is threatened, one often finds courage one didn't know one had, and the eldest Baudelaire found she could be brave enough to open the door.
~ Lemony Snicket
It says here she held up a Frito-Lay truck?" "Apparently she was on that no-carbohydrate diet, got her period and snapped when she saw the truck parked in front of a convenience store. Just got whacked out at the thought of all those chips. She threatened the driver with a nail file, filled her car with bags of Fritos, and took off, leaving the driver standing there in front of his empty truck.
~ Janet Evanovich
He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.
~ Liza Minnelli
Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened.
~ Lecrae
Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.
~ Klaus Nomi
De Valera had also been active. He subjected deputies who announced their intention of voting for the Treaty to inquisitions for their threatened lèse-majesté.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
With pain in his voice, the camerlengo spoke of his late Pope... the victim of an Illuminati poisoning. And finally, his words almost a whisper, he spoke of a deadly new technology, antimatter, which in less than two hours threatened to destroy all of Vatican City.
~ Dan Brown
My mind is like a pond without ripples. Your mind is full of waves because you feel separated from, and often threatened by, an unplanned, unwelcome occurrence. Your mind is like a pond into which someone has just dropped a boulder!
~ Dan Millman
It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered.
~ Wendell Berry
A sovereign, creative, truthful God is not threatened by our human attempts to describe and better to understand the nature and purposes of God.
~ William H. Willimon
And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.
~ Henry Fielding
Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.
~ Mike Rounds
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
~ Bill Laswell
But the teacher they follow is dead." "Is he? Are you so certain of that?" Gamaliel's eyes carried a piercing quality. "Have you bothered to hear what they are saying? They spoke their news again yesterday, standing before the group that had threatened them with death. They follow a messiah who departed so that the Spirit of God could breathe upon them all, a messiah who lives within.
~ Janette Oke
Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
~ Jasper Fforde
Dear Gaffsie, believe me, we are so very small and insignificant, and so are our tea cakes and carpets and all those things, you know, and still they're so important, but always they're threatened by mercilessness.
~ Tove Jansson
she leaned forward over the table and whispered: 'This calm is unnatural. It means something terrible is going to happen. Dear Gaffsie, believe me, we are so very small and insignificant, and so are our tea cakes and carpets and all those things, you know, and still they're so important, but always they're threatened by mercilessness …
~ Tove Jansson