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Quotes About Intimidation

They feared Me because I feared Nothing.
~ Lydia Lunch
Put away that twopenny toy, you tit-sucking coistril, and show me the length of your blade!
~ Lynn Flewelling
Shut up," Morgan said, whirling on the woman and pointing the sword at her. "Shut up, you shrill harpy, before I aid you in doing so by means of a dozen ways you won't care for in the least." Adhémar's fiancée fell, blessedly, silent.
~ Lynn Kurland
She had transferred to La Brea High School less than six months ago, and the guys there never did more than smile or ask her to dance. She could feel them looking at her when she walked down the hallways, but when she caught their glances, they looked away. Perhaps they saw the gangster in her eyes or in the curl of her lips. Veto had said she was like a jaguar; her show of teeth was a warning, not a smile. She was probably scaring the guys away without even knowing it.
~ Lynne Ewing
See, you have to marry me. I seem to scare off all the help.
~ Lynsay Sands
Don't threaten me, you piece of filth.
~ Unknown
I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
~ Mac Davis
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
~ Madeleine Albright
Many of the tactics Hitler employed to seize and consolidate power, Mussolini had adopted previously: the reliance on violent gangs, the intimidation of parliament, the strengthening and subsequent abuse of authority, the subjugation of the civil service, the affinity for spectacle, and the insistence that the leader, whether Der Führer or Il Duce, could do no wrong.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
Primo Levi added that the critical point can be reached "not just through the terror of police intimidation, but by denying and distorting information, by undermining systems of justice, by paralyzing the education system, and by spreading in a myriad subtle ways nostalgia for a world where order reigned.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
they won't fear you as they fear the rest of us.
~ Madeline Miller
Pointing the finger at Ross Bannick was a terrifying act, not because she was afraid of being wrong, but because she feared the man himself.
~ John Grisham
At eleven-fifteen it rang again, and Jake received his first death threat, anonymous of course. He was called a nigger-loving son of a bitch, one who would not live if the nigger walked.
~ John Grisham
He received his first death threat at the age of twenty-five, and started carrying a gun.
~ John Grisham
Fats knew the playbook and was adept at the dirty tricks: stuffing ballot boxes, raising large sums of unreported money, buying blocks of votes, spreading lies, intimidating voters, harassing poll workers, bribing election officials, and voting dead people with absentee ballots.
~ John Grisham
It's a fragile system, this trusting of lives to twelve average, ordinary people who do not understand the law and are intimidated by the process.
~ John Grisham
And the story I can tell you involves more dirty cash than all the others combined. It also involves bribery, extortion, intimidation, rigged trials, at least two murders, and one wrongful conviction. There's a man rotting away on death row an hour from here who was framed. The man responsible for the crime is probably sitting on his boat right now, a boat much nicer than mine.
~ John Grisham
DON'T GIVE ME THE SHIVERS,' Owen said.
~ John Irving
He seemed only slightly intimidated by my muscles; he had an arrogance larger than most people's hearts and minds.
~ John Irving
Look at that. She think I got siphlus and TB and a hard-on and I gonna cut her up with a razor and lif her purse. Ooo-wee.
~ John Kennedy Toole
He insisted on flying to Washington in a new and untested airplane so that its size would intimidate his hosts.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.
~ Treat Williams
It's sad how some people are so jealous and intimidated by you that they only have negative things to say when they know absolutely nothing about you.
~ Unknown
There's people who will knock you down and will try to intimidate you but if you stand back up and dust yourself off they will be the one's being intimidated.
~ Unknown