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Quotes About Intimidation

Jamie let go of me. "Shut your mucky gob, man." He stepped close to our fearless leader in the dark, took hold of his jacket by the collar, and in a dead quiet voice that had gone dangerously Scots, threatened heatedly, "Talk like that again wi' these brave lassies listenin' an' Ah'll tear the filthy English tongue frae yer heid, so Ah will.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I'm making you look a little less perfect. Men are terrified by perfection.
~ Eloisa James
I was constantly in fear, metaphorically speaking, of getting a smack.
~ Elton John
Letting go is simply, refusing to be intimidated by your/one's past. It is as well, not allowing your past failures or mistakes to affect your present life and the future ahead of you. Do remember, whoever that refuses to let go of his or her past is likely to ruin his or her future. Moreover, if you keep on living in your past. You will become a prisoner of your past rather than a pioneer of your future.
~ Emeasoba George
If a woman so much as stands alone and by herself somewhere, all sorts of men gather around her showing their teeth.
~ Bama
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
~ Barack Obama
In this atmosphere of doubt why was the extreme risk approved? Partly because exasperation at the failure of all her efforts at intimidation had led to an all-or-nothing state of mind and a helpless yielding like Bethmann's by the civilians to the military.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
executions were meant as an exercise in frightfulness according to the theory developed by the Emperor Caligula: "Oderint dum metuant" (Let them hate us as long as they fear us).
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
~ Barbra Streisand
You're not smart enough to be afraid of me.
~ Barry Lyga
When Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) found out who had published a nasty pamphlet about her, she had the authors' right hands cut off. Now there's an idea! (Or not.) For the moment, let's say that a Mean Girl is treating you
~ Bart King
If I catch Corey Graves on the street, I'm gonna do something to him. I ain't gonna do it at the office or the airport, but if I catch Corey Graves on the street, you see that little bouffant hairdo he got? I'm gonna rearrange it for him.
~ Booker T
Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they're not intimidated by them. If I'm doing 'Boy Meets Grill,' and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.
~ Bobby Flay
I recently caught myself giving a pretty girl the cold shoulder because I felt intimidated. She was so gorgeous, and it made me feel insecure. I wasn't even aware until someone pointed it out to me. I was so embarrassed! I recognized those thoughts and made a point to be more friendly to her because there was no reason to be cold.
~ Lilly Singh
In countries that lack a longstanding and entrenched commitment to the rule of law, it can be hard to recruit, train and keep prosecutors and judges who are both independent and effective, even in the face of attempted intimidation or corruption.
~ David Lidington
When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you're not in a film pretending to be someone - you are yourself. It's intimidating.
~ Alexandra Maria Lara
Let them hate so long as they fear.
~ Lucius Accius
The Great Khali always serves up a good beatdown if you can't get out from under that heavy hand.
~ Jeff Hardy
There is no place people can hide from me.
~ Terry McAuliffe
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
The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometer of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-guns nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons
~ George Orwell
There was a sort of calculating ferocity in the boy's eye, a quite evident desire to hit or kick Winston and a consciousness of being very nearly big enough to do so.
~ George Orwell
His bowels seemed to turn to water.
~ George Orwell
Instead—she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere
~ George Orwell