Quotes About Threatened

There are no two things as important to us in life and in art as being threatened and being saved. What are ideals of form for if we aren't going to be made to fear for them? All our ingenuity is lavished on getting into danger legitimately so that we may be genuinely rescued.

The poor lass had been wounded and banished from heaven, threatened by a demon, and groped by a vampire, all in one night.

Are you a coward, Glen?" "Only when threatened.

It is evident, therefore, that the people of the South, in the crisis which confronted them in 1860, had no lack either of precept or of precedent for their instruction and guidance in the teaching and the example of our brethren of the North and East. The only practical difference was, that the North threatened and the South acted.

Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.

Henceforth, whenever we are threatened with being cast adrift upon love's transcendent, golden shore, I want you to slap my face.

East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados; and western states commonly face damaging droughts. Extreme weather does not discriminate by American geography.

There's a rift in this country between the people and its leaders. There is corruption at the highest levels of government; it goes beyond mere power politics. The Constitution has been seriously assaulted, our way of life threatened.

My adversaries were those with a traditional mind-set, the usual opponents of any idea "not invented here," those fearful that what I was trying to do threatened their existing programs and procurements.

Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful.

El ego se siente amenazado por la felicidad porque piensa que si eres demasiado feliz él se quedará sin trabajo. De modo que si ve que empiezas a salir de la miseria, vuelve a hundirte

The mechanisms of dissent differed in each society, but internal unrest threatened the leadership in nearly every country-including China.

Hence, popular theory holds that women's jealousy is primarily emotional, whereas men's is sexual. Interestingly, the research shows the reverse among homosexuals: lesbian women tend to express more sexual jealousy than gay men, and gay men cop to more emotional jealousy than lesbians. Arguably, this reversal highlights that we feel most threatened where we feel least secure.

That which represents Chaos is menace, is the aggressive side. While Order is the side being threatened, in need of protection. In need of a defender.

As my love for her grew more poignant and more threatened my impatience and my weariness grew.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. And if you don't have some kind of global cooperation, nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it's climate change or whether it's technological disruption.

Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.

Since railroads were natural monopolies and couldn't survive much direct competition, they could be easily threatened by small competitors

He thought wryly of the current political metaphor, "the two ends are hot and the middle is cold," a very Chinese way of saying that change was passionately wanted at both the top and the bottom of the society, but sitting squarely in the middle in many areas were Mao's bureaucrats, threatened by the progressive changes, indignant, clinging in fury to the old status quo.

And innocent people who feel threatened hire bodyguards. Guilty people hire mercenaries.

Mom and Dad could be spies and they could be criminals. Worse, they could be here against their will, being threatened in some way if they don't cooperate.

So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age.