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Quotes About Intimidation

Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!
~ Robin Williams
The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish.
~ Paolo Di Canio
When a man holds you round the throat, I don't think he has come to apologise.
~ Ayrton Senna
Only grown-up men are scared of women.
~ Ernest Lehman
I can tell when men are threatened by my height.
~ Allison Janney
You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!
~ Chris Tucker
Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.
~ E. W. Howe
I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You got to knock a man down and put your knife at his throat before he'll hear you, like I did to that trooper. The truth seems hateful to most everybody.
~ Thomas Berger
I am somebody who never came close to a physical altercation, because I was too scared of even getting near one - I'd probably just start crying.
~ Lucas Hedges
The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.
~ Leigh Steinberg
I get nervous around famous people.
~ John Rzeznik
Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is!
~ John Dillinger
I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people.
~ Asa Butterfield
Every time I've been around Beyonce, I get so nervous that I forget how to speak English.
~ Justine Skye
I'm certainly not intimidated by New England or anybody else.
~ Rex Ryan
Mafia guys are all just insecure people who want their money. They're like little seven-year old kids when they don't get their way. I knew guys like that growing up in New Jersey.
~ Ray Liotta
I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined.
~ Emilia Clarke
Ninety five percent of the field is not competitive when Nadal is playing.
~ Mats Wilander
I can't stand toe-to-toe with Bill Murray. It's very hard, because just looking at Bill - he's 6'3", and he just stares at you, and you have no idea what's going on inside that mind of his.
~ Theodore Melfi
These valuable thing produced in us a feeling of intimidation. We knew that no matter how far we got in life, we would never really be meant for such fineness, that the few expensive antiques we did have had fallen to us from a higher life and now condescended to live among us.
~ Nicole Krauss
Israelis like to believe, and tell the world, that they were running an "enlightened" or "benign" occupation, qualitatively different from other military occupations the world had seen. The truth was radically different. Like all occupations, Israel's was founded on brute force, repression and fear, collaboration and treachery, beatings and torture chambers, and daily intimidation, humiliation, and manipulation.
~ Noam Chomsky
The United States can be held to lead the international community only if that community is defined as the United States and whoever happens to go along with it, often through intimidation, as is sometimes tacitly conceded. Critics
~ Noam Chomsky