Quotes About Threatened

The crickets were back and the news was bad. The first thing seemed to signal the other if one were to look for signs. Earlier that morning the sun lay on the horizon like an egg that didn't break right, and all day it had threatened to rain

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The ones who didn't lose faith found a meaning beneath the horror." "What was the meaning?" "They understood that the powers of evil must have felt threatened to unleash such malice against people of faith.

Preoccupation with the self consumes psychic energy because in everyday life we often feel threatened.

People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

Surrounding every technology are institutions whose organization — not to mention their reason for being — reflects the world-view promoted by the technology. Therefore, when an old technology is assaulted by a new one, institutions are threatened. When institutions are threatened, a culture finds itself in crisis.

In the United States, Islamists threatened bookstores and firebombers hit the offices of the Riverdale Press, a weekly paper in the Bronx, after it published an unexceptional editorial saying that the public had the right to read whatever novels it pleased.

I have yet to meet a servant of Whitehall that did not have a serpent's smile. Men with power have much to lose, and will do much to hold on to it should be threatened.

Hild's dreams of birds stolen from their nests by stoats became so evil Onnen threatened to stuff her ears with tallow and threatened to find another sleeping place.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

My mother once told me she knew a man who owed fealty to himself," I said. "Owed himself a share of his own taxes every year, and if he were ever threatened, there were treaties in place demanding he provide himself with prompt and loyal military support.

When the person with BPD felt threatened, they consciously or unconsciously protected themselves from painful feelings in ways that pushed these buttons.

I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like.

If I can get all hot under the collar about the purity of a hat, just think what I'm like when human heritage is threatened with extinction.

Riches may ransom a manís life, but a poor man hears no threat.