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Quotes About Intimidation

Hard lessons were handed out. As many men learned to their sorrow, it's impossible to be intimidating when one angry woman has your cock between her teeth and another is holding a stiletto to your kidneys.
~ Scott Lynch
Get serious about telling me where that money is," said Conté, "or I'll kick your ass so hard every piece of shit that falls out of it for the rest of your life will have my gods-damned heel print on it.
~ Scott Lynch
it was always impossible to put a price on making your enemy shit their breeches.
~ Scott Lynch
I shall grind your bones to powder," he hollered, transfixing the three Gentlemen Bastards with his gleaming eyes. "And with that dust I'll make cement for paving stones, and for a hundred years to come you'll have no rest beneath the crush of strange wheels and the tramp of strange boots! Drunkards will make their unclean water upon you, and I shall laugh to think of it
~ Scott Lynch
It's a throat-slashing, shark-feeding, off-to-meet-the-gods offence, clear?
~ Scott Lynch
Every time I went on TV I got a threat.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting.
~ Baron Vaughn
For the longest time, I never thought I was intimidating to guys, but I'm kind of finding out that maybe there is some tiny thread of intimidation.
~ Beverley Mitchell
Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?
~ Robin McKinley
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
~ Salman Rushdie
You can't have a conversation with someone who's intimidated by you all the time.
~ Tila Tequila
I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.
~ Kevin Spacey
When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.
~ Lloyd Waner
As a matter of fact. I think I actually frighten men. I think I scare the hell out of them time after time.
~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll —
~ Mark Twain
The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! Because you're brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a man? Why, a man's safe in the hands of ten thousand of your kind - as long as it's day-time and you're not behind him.
~ Mark Twain
Oh, I dasn't, Mars Tom. Ole missis she'd take an' tar de head off'n me. 'Deed she would.
~ Mark Twain
eggs. You're a liar! You're another. You're a fighting liar and dasn't take it up. Aw—take a walk! Say—if you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head. Oh, of course you will. Well I will. Well why don't you do it then? What do you keep saying you will for? Why don't you do it? It's because you're afraid. I ain't afraid. You are.
~ Mark Twain
Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.
~ Markus Zusak
Le tiene miedo a Bill? — Por supuesto que sí. Es violento, y ni la mitad de tonto de lo que parece.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
During the early 1950s the hangman operating with the cold war troops was McCarthyism. For years it decimated social organizations, throttled free expression, and intimidated into bleak silence not only liberals and radicals but men in high and protected places.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail
~ Arthur Miller
It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I found it very manipulative and controlling. It put the other person constantly on-guard. And it was extremely intimidating because you never knew when she was going to snap. I made a mental note to refine these skills within myself.
~ Augusten Burroughs
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi