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Quotes About Intimidation

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
~ Dick Cavett
they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.
~ George Orwell
Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
~ Adam Lambert
Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.
~ Marian Keyes
Don Corleone did this by putting a pistol to the forehead of the band leader and assuring him with the utmost seriousness that either his signature or his brains would rest on that document in exactly one minute. Les Halley signed.
~ Mario Puzo
This guy is a personal friend of J. Edgar Hoover," Johnny said. "You can't even raise your voice to him." "He's a businessman," the Don said blandly. "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
~ Mario Puzo
Steele gave the unapologetic impression that he could break you with his bare hands if it weren't for his strict devotion to Jesus and army discipline.
~ Mark Bowden
Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you enuch jelly, thou
~ Anthony Burgess
For my own part, I liked Lady Warminster, although at the same time never wholly at ease in her presence. She was immaculately free from any of the traditional blemishes of a mother-in-law; agreeable always; entertaining; even, in her own way, affectionate; but always a little alarming: an elegant, deeply experienced bird – perhaps a bird of prey – ready to sweep down and attack from the frozen mountain peaks upon which she preferred herself to live apart.
~ Anthony Powell
Oh, papa, what will he say to you? I don't think he can eat me, my dear; nor will he dare even to murder me. I daresay he would if he could.
~ Anthony Trollope
If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Get in my way again, boy, and you're going to learn that Velkan isn't the only one in this family who has fangs. Retta to Viktor
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Goes with the whole King of the Badasses. Kind of hard to lead an army of the damned if I'm the King of Nice -Stryker
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And for a brief moment I envisioned myself snarling Yes, ha ha! And I minced fifty more like him, so you'd better run!
~ Sherwood Smith
He, who considered himself a man, had become, with his first wife, vulnerable as an intimidated child. She acted on him like a wasting disease: all healthy links to life were infidelities to be rescinded.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Fancy was a liar. She had been with Aunt Fanny and dared not admit to running away. She had not been frightened, but she enjoyed teasing people weaker than herself. Not a servant, or an animal, or any child in the village near the house, would willingly go near her.
~ Shirley Jackson
Un giorno» ribatté con voce maligna, sfregandosi gli occhi con le dita «riuscirò a stare con gli occhi aperti tutto il tempo e vi mangerò tutti e due, te e Lizzie»
~ Shirley Jackson
His dagger was out, poised at her throat. "Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.
~ George R. R. Martin
Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes.
~ James Patterson
More often than not others will project their own insecurities onto you when they are intimidated by your light. Don't listen to them, it's a reflection of the war they're battling within.
~ Nikki Rowe
Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to THEM are to develop. Without these freedom has no meaning.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Drop that or I'll blow ya straight to Jesus.
~ John Wayne
Gavin leaned over the table. "Welcome to Cradle Bay High, Stevie boy. Welcome to my nightmare.
~ John Whitman
His cock came out, and she blinked. "That? You're going to rape me with that?
~ Elizabeth Vaughan