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Quotes About Intimidation

Any idiot knows that the first thing you do when seizing absolute power is bribe the Praetorian Guard. It's really the only tenured and tacitly understood method of making the cogs of accession mesh smoothly. First you hand out big fat bonuses to the military, then seize your power by force, then build your consensus via relentless intimidation and bondage attire. Authoritarian
~ Cintra Wilson
It's a shove here, a twist of the wrist there, a pinch to my upper arm, a thump to my thigh if he's really annoyed.
~ Unknown
The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
~ Clarence Darrow
When Stephen comes into a room, the furnishings shrink from him. Chairs scuttle backwards. Joint-stools flatten themselves like pissing bitches. The woollen Bible figures in the king's tapestries lift their hands to cover their ears.
~ Hilary Mantel
If he thought I was bad, I would be worse. If he thought I was cruel, I would be horrifying.
~ Holly Black
I swear to fucking God, I will spray you again
~ Holly Black
I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?
~ Holly Black
You sure you want to cross me?" In that moment she's her father's daughter.
~ Holly Black
The Grand General would mount your head on a wall," Nicasia informed him, patting his cheek. "A very fine head," he informed her with a wicked grin. "Suitable for mounting.
~ Holly Black
Instead of being afraid, I will become something to fear.
~ Holly Black
It seems I have a singular taste for woman who threaten me.
~ Holly Black
If you stop," she says, "I will also kill you.
~ Holly Black
I'm not afraid," Zacharov says, still looking at Anton. "It takes guts to kill a man with your hands. You don't have the balls.
~ Holly Black
if you're thinking of calling the guards, know that the only reason I have for not stabbing you in the throat is the fear that you might die loudly.' The Ghost gives me a small, wry smile. 'I would, you know. Very loudly. Just to spite you.
~ Holly Black
Let me be feared and never again afraid.
~ Holly Black
She's good at picking out clothes to send a certain message- even if the message of her drawings appears to be "stay away from me or I will chop off your head"...
~ Holly Black
We're here to take Suren,' Revindra goes on. 'And we will take it ill if you attempt to prevent us.' The gaze that Oak slants towards me is as cold as the one he bestowed the ogres. 'Oh,' he says. 'I wouldn't dream of stopping you.
~ Holly Black
First I am going to kill you,' she tells him. 'And then I am going to eat you.
~ Holly Black
Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.
~ Holly Black
The duchess turned on Eugène with one of those insolent stares that envelop a man from head to foot, flatten him out, and leave him at zero.
~ Honore de Balzac
It would be so much easier to be aggressive if she were wearing her bra.
~ Liane Moriarty
In this Act, "stalking" includes the following of a person about or the watching or frequenting of the vicinity of, or an approach to, a person's place of residence, business or work or any place that a person frequents for the purposes of any social or leisure activity. —Section 8 of the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act S
~ Liane Moriarty
Connie could make her feel slow and bovine; the way she'd suddenly snap her head around and bark a question that would leave Margie fumbling for an answer.
~ Liane Moriarty
I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
~ Liev Schreiber