Quotes About Intimidation

But at the time, she was too scared to do anything. His reach into the cops and courts, he told her, was beyond anything she could imagine.

Steve offered to pay his victim a month's salary if she would write a statement saying he had not attacked her. She refused. But because she was engaged and worried about what her fiancé would think if she had to go through a trial with a man who would try to destroy her, she backed off. The case disappeared.

feared going to the police. No one would believe her, as he warned her afterward. And even if they did, they wouldn't dare to go after him.

Moreover, liberals asserted, the church maintained unsanitary practices, such as interring the remains of pious elites in the walls and beneath the floors of cathedrals, and it was unalterably opposed to science, progress, and liberal political ideas, making free use of censorship and spiritual intimidation to uphold its dogmas

Nazi storm troopers began as a security detail clearing the halls of Hitler's opponents during his rallies. As

Armed groups first degrade a political order, and then transform it. Violent right-wing groups, such as the Iron Guard in interwar Romania or the Arrow Cross in interwar Hungary, intimidated their rivals.

I was honestly very nervous of Constance Wheatcroft. And I wasn't the only one. Her entire family was afraid of her. Dogs were afraid of her. Bindweed in the hedge would wither as she passed; birds would forget their nesting instincts and fly back to north Africa at the sound of her hideous cries.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.

Bodyguards offer fake security. The real security comes from having your enemies know nothing about you.

A great defensive lineman causes problems all day long for an offensive line - problems that don't have a way of getting into the official stats.

I definitely learned to communicate with other musicians better. I used to feel so intimidated by guys who can read notes, like, 'Oh my God, they're gonna think I'm not even gonna be able to sit at the table.' But I've come to see that a lot of these musicians don't know how to read music either, and that made me feel good.

I remember the first time I fought somebody with a name and that was Tito Ortiz. I didn't start fighting until like the second round because I was like, 'Oh my God, that's Tito Ortiz. That's Tito Ortiz from TV. Look how big his head is, damn.'

My old man was ruthless. He terrorised us.

I'm an old-fashioned player, an old-school player who will foul you and foul you hard.

In Germany, too many clubs are too scared of Bayern, both on and off the pitch.

He looked like a Dictator on the point of starting a purge.

She frowned at him. That sounds vaguely like a threat. It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.

If ever there was a bloke at the very mention of whose name it would be excusable for people to tremble like aspens, that bloke is Sir Roderick Glossop. He has an enormous bald head, all the hair which ought to be on it seeming to have run into his eyebrows, and his eyes go through you like a couple of Death Rays. How are you, how are you, how are you? I said, overcoming a slight desire to leap backwards out of the window.

Do you realise that about two hundred of Twing's heftiest are waiting for you outside to chuck you into the pond? No! Absolutely! For a moment the poor chap seemed crushed. But only for a moment. There has always been something of the good old English bulldog breed about Bingo. A strange, sweet smile flickered for an instant over his face. It's all right, he said. I can sneak out through the cellar and climb over the wall at the back. They can't intimidate me!

Spode, also, seemed a good deal

Sergeant Hicks seemed to be laid out in squares as though he were constructed out of cinder blocks. There was a hardness to his body that made his uniform appear to be little more than a paint job. He walked as if each step he took was driving a hated enemy toward a precipice.

if you speak of this I will tear out your voice and top it down the nearest drain

He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room.