Idle Threat Quotes

#1. And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I'll kill him for you. From anyone else, it would have been an idle threat, and I smiled, feeling loved. (Ivy and Rachel)

Kim Harrison

#2. I assumed," Magnus said, "that you two would be partners, since you're practically married anyway.

Cassandra Clare

#3. I'm going to kill you one day," I told him as we hurried after Grimalkin, back into the swampy marshland. It was not an idle threat.
Puck just laughed. "Yeah. You and everyone else, prince. Join the club.

Julie Kagawa

#4. Over the last fifty years," the tall man declared, "our sins against Mother Nature have grown exponentially." He paused. "I fear for the soul of humankind.

Dan Brown

#5. When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

Mark Steyn

#6. Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#7. But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

Yo-Yo Ma

#8. In times of your need, you will know your true friends.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.

Robin McKinley

#10. It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.

Pirjo Honkasalo

#11. A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#12. When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

Jim Hightower

#13. Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.

J.K. Rowling

#14. Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

Philip Emeagwali

#15. The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Richard Louv

#16. I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

Alec Baldwin

#17. Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.

Nora Roberts

#18. I'm one of those folks that look and say the Old Testament laid out clearly the path for Christ to come, but when He came, every scholar at that time missed it.

James Lankford

#19. Anchoring our hope to Christ means we live with a confident expectation that he will therefore fulfill his promises to us.

Lee Strobel