Quotes About Intimidation

'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousand pages in paperback. I've heard several people say the size alone intimidated them.

She folded her arms across her breasts and looked at me like a lioness.

Now take it easy . This is a gun I have at your back. Don't you feel it?" I felt it. I took it easy.

Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.

There, I've said it, and I said it in front of all these strange and quite scary women and that guy, because I'm less frightened of them than I am of being alone with you and you turning me down.

Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.

Botanists have done their best to intimidate and confuse the nature lover. But we should not allow ourselves to be discouraged; we have as much right to the enjoyment of wild flowers as they. So I will disregard the botanist and I will go looking for the pretty flower that I have named Merry Heart. It is always nodding and dancing in the breeze. It is a happy flower, deserving of a happy, light name.

Stop, people! Don't make me hurt you! What chance have you against one who can smash robots?

Just because you don't fear someone doesn't mean they can't kick your butt.

If we don't get a good day's work out of you, we'll maroon you." He ignored Barnaby's raised eyebrow. They'd never marooned anybody before, even the English nobles they hated, but Gideon meant to put the fear of God into the man.

She threatened a Negro man who worked for her father that if he didn't take (have sex with) her she would swear he tried rape. He had no choice, except that he quit working for them. And from then until she finished high school, she managed it several times with other Negroes

I do my best to avoid speaking for her. She scares me when she's pissed.

I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours. Then I might move on to the cutting.

Yes," she said in a voice squeaky with fright. She was younger and still attractive then; she hadn't yet allowed her body to engorge. I have noted since that some kinds of men like to bully beautiful women.

He was so very large and male, and excessively male creatures always discomposed her.

Iran is determined to use peaceful nuclear technology and no intimidation or threat can make us give it up.

Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.

I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody.

What, and give him (the batter) a chance to think on my time.

We are the things that others fear, I said. Remember that.

Put it in their face," Gotti urged Sammy the Bull Gravano. "They want to see fucking lions and tigers and that's what we are.

A white, gummy substance smeared on the club's plate-glass window blocked a view of the interior from the sidewalk. Inside, signs on the wall read: "Tough Guys Don't Squeal," "Don't Talk. This Place Is Bugged" and "The Enemy Is Listening.

Now breathe or I'll do it for you.

Anybody bugs you, anybody at all, I'll rip off both his arms. You got me?" She tried to smile. "That's sweet, Davy. Bloodthirsty, but sweet.