Menaces Quotes

#1. Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.

Richard M. Weaver

#2. Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

George Haven Putnam

#3. Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

Rollo May

#4. The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.

Benton MacKaye

#5. Fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.

Louis D. Brandeis

#6. Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

Jaime Lerner

#7. As soon as you start analyzing something it stops

Johnny Ramone

#8. Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.

Lucretius

#9. Most people can't talk as fast as I do. I'm not proud of that. That's God-given.

Chick Hearn

#10. In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others.

Vironika Tugaleva

#11. A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

Orlando Bloom

#12. It was as though an animated image of death carved out of old ivory had been shaking its hand with menaces at a motionless crowd of men made of dark and glittering bronze.

Joseph Conrad

#13. Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

John Updike

#14. She was to my ego what Rasputin was to morality, whittling away at my self-image with menaces and put downs viewed as compliments until I realised I was too old, too fat, too tall, too dull, too everything to ever find love.

Tyne O'Connell

#15. The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#16. Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Terry Pratchett

#17. No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being ...

Benjamin Constant

#18. Those who treat the muslim woman not as an individual but as a symbol either of Islamic chastity or secular liberalism are guilty of the same sin : the objectification of women

Reza Aslan

#19. Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

Gregg Easterbrook

#20. I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.

Roman Polanski

#21. Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

Louis D. Brandeis

#22. I love Paul O'Neill, but you could not pay me enough to work for him again" one official told me. "the man has never encountered an answer he can't turn into another twenty hours of work.

Charles Duhigg

#23. The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

George Sand

#24. The way to God is not vertically up. Never down. It is horizontal. Love lights up much of the path.

Priyavrat Thareja

#25. Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.

Natalie Dormer

#26. Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

Albert Pike

#27. Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

Frank B. Kellogg

#28. We do well to be reminded that the devil hates a praying leader and a praying church. When we begin to pray, we pick a fight with the devil at a whole new level. Yet, our calling is to be praying menaces to the enemy.

Daniel Henderson

#29. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

Samuel Johnson

#30. Don't let others hijack your dreams. Be captain of your own ship and master of your own destiny.

Joanne Madeline Moore

#31. If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.

Henry David Thoreau