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Quotes About Intimidation

Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Be still while I get up or I'll make an opening in your head for brains to leak in.
~ Dashiell Hammett
A woman stood between them holding a sizzling skillet in her hand. She was a big-boned, full-fleshed, red-haired woman of perhaps twenty-eight, handsome in a rather brutal, sloppy way.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Too violent, you say? Shut up or I'll break your legs.
~ Dave Barry
IF YOU COME NEAR THIS BOAT, I WILL CUT OFF HIS HEAD, D'YOU UNDERSTAND, SAVAGES?
~ Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
He (John Puller) wanted to intimidate. Intimidated people with a guilty conscience often made mistakes.
~ David Baldacci
She backed up against a brick wall. Tears sliding down her face, she moaned, "Please, please don't hurt me. I swear I won't tell nobody what you done. I swear to God. Please." Rogers bent down and picked
~ David Baldacci
I made some more threats. I've got this big knife back here. He poked his thumb over his shoulder. It attracts a lot of attention sometimes.
~ David Eddings
She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.
~ David Foster Wallace
the people to be most frightened of are the people who are the most frightened.
~ David Foster Wallace
That the people to be most frightened of are the people who are the most frightened.
~ David Foster Wallace
Jakob Hlasek is six foot two and built like a halfback, his blond hair in a short square Eastern European cut, with icy eyes and cheekbones out to here: He looks like either a Nazi male model or a lifeguard in hell and seems in general just way too scary ever to try to talk to. His backhand is a one-hander, rather like Ivan Lendl's, and watching him practice it is like watching a great artist casually sketch something. I keep having to remember to blink.
~ David Foster Wallace
no man put his tongue on D. W. Gately and lived
~ David Foster Wallace
But facing a dragon does not mean swaggering up to it unarmed and insulting its mom.
~ David Foster Wallace
La gente è sempre in ansia. Puoi tenere in pugno chi vuoi, se scopri di cosa ha paura.
~ Unknown
Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)
~ William Shakespeare
Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.
~ William Shakespeare
And the next time you want to whip somebody, take him out in the swamps, kick the shit out of him, and stuff what's left up under a cypress tree.
~ William W. Johnstone
Don't give them enough time to arrange a solid defense. We've got to appear against them like an uncontrollable nightmare of spears and battle-axes and flashing swords!
~ Xenophon
Don't you bully me with your politeness!
~ Yann Martel
Hediger (1950) mantiene que «cuando dos animales se encuentran por primera vez, el que es capaz de intimidar al otro se definirá como el socialmente superior de los dos, de modo que una decisión social no siempre dependerá de una pelea; en ocasiones, bastará con un encuentro».
~ Yann Martel
You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?
~ Cinda Williams Chima
The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Then talk to Hastings." Leesha flinched. "He's so scary, you know?
~ Cinda Williams Chima