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Quotes About Threatened

The likelihood of John having an affair with Brian Epstein is absurd, and actually impossible. Even when Phil Spector once tied up and threatened male sex against him, John was terrified.
~ May Pang
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
~ Sandra Bernhard
I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.
~ Steven Spielberg
When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.
~ Marianne Fredriksson
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God." What that means is this: Love is real. It's an eternal creation and nothing can destroy it. Anything that isn't love is an illusion. Remember this, and you'll be at
~ Marianne Williamson
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.
~ Marianne Williamson
Foi assim que um grande escândalo ameaçou o reino da Boêmia, e que os melhores planos de Mr. Sherlock Holmes foram frustrados pela sagacidade de uma mulher. Ele costumava zombar da inteligência das mulheres, mas a partir desse dia nunca mais o vi fazê-lo.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)
~ Sigmund Freud
Women will have but one purpose: to give birth to more of Us. That Is All! They say the great civilizations collapsed when We threatened to take over. Theyve missed the point. They collapsed because We didnt go to the inevitable limit: which is complete
~ John Rechy
Individual liberty is the whole purpose of political life, and I thought it was threatened then [in 1964 becoming politically engaged at age 15] and I think it's threatened now.
~ John Robert Bolton
Paul drew, however, little more than hostility from those identified as the Orthodox party, for whom any change threatened their security.
~ John Shelby Spong
But now the rest of the adjoining cotters rose in a body, and insisted on turning me out. Is it not strange, Sir, that this most horrible of all pestilences should deprive others, not only of natural feeling, but of reason? I could make no resistance although they had flung me over the dunghill, as they threatened to do; but the two women acted with great decision, and dared them to touch me or any one in their house.
~ John William Polidori
I shall write an ode! threatened Philip direfully. Ah no, that is too much! cried De Vangrisse with feeling.
~ Georgette Heyer
The Safari Club International has worked the legal system hard to try to keep polar bears - threatened primarily by climate change, but also by hunting - on the list of creatures people can import as trophies after shooting.
~ Lydia Millet
I think that there's more jealousy in sports than racism, really. I think racism exists in the works, but when I faced racism in hockey, a lot of times from jealousy, because when I was young, I was always one of the better players. And I think a lot of people were threatened by that.
~ P.K. Subban
They have terrified my poor wife and threatened my very person!" Halt eyed the man impassivley until the outburst was finished. Worse than that," he said quietly, "they've wasted my time.
~ John Flanagan
We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.
~ David Limbaugh
For Churchill, the only way to halt the onward march of Nazism was for all the threatened nations to arm, and to join together under the collective security clauses of the Covenant of the League of Nations. 'Arms and the Covenant' was Churchill's call.
~ Martin Gilbert
In times like these, when their fat little comforts are threatened, you may be sure that science is the first thing men will sacrifice.
~ Ayn Rand
But desperation easily turns into fanaticism. People adopt inflexible views as a comforting defense mechanism when they find themselves threatened and overwhelmed by forces they cannot control.
~ Stephen Batchelor
We often frame internal innovation challenges by asking, How can we protect the internal startup from the parent organization? I would like to reframe and reverse the question: How can we protect the parent organization from the startup? In my experience, people defend themselves when they feel threatened, and no innovation can flourish if defensiveness is given free rein. In fact, this is why the common suggestion to hide the innovation team is misguided.
~ Eric Ries
I'm going to puke, Dan threatened in the darkness. Such a lovely word, Ian commented miserably. Have you considered something more civilized, like 'throw up' or perhaps 'give back'? In my hood, they call it 'tossing a sidewalk pizza,' Jonah managed. Your 'hood'? Hamilton echoed from his place at the wheel. You live in a row of twenty-million-dollar palaces. Do you even have sidewalks?
~ Gordon Korman
World Migratory Bird Day is an opportunity to celebrate the great natural wonder of bird migration - but also a reminder that those patterns, and ecosystems worldwide, are threatened by climate change.
~ Antonio Guterres
We live in an epoch where rational reasoning associated with evidence isn't universally accepted and is, in fact, in jeopardy. That worries me a lot.
~ Rainer Weiss