Top 97 Menacing Quotes
#1. I have been thinking about the idea of excuses for some time now. They are like menacing demons that creep into our lives without us knowing. They are roadblocks, white lies to ourselves, a reason to set the bar lower, and self-justification for achieving less than our full potential.
Lorii Myers
#2. I spent my whole life being very shy and introverted and I kind of found my release and therapy in the gym. I became this big, menacing physical stature of a man but internally I'm still kind of insecure. Warm, fuzzy and gooey.
Dave Bautista
#3. Canada has, at times, represented itself as a country in a valiant struggle against powerful and menacing agents that are indifferent to its special practices and sensibilities - most especially American culture. It's the old, outdated garrison mentality.
Miriam Toews
#4. A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.
Jason Momoa
#5. Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.
Paul Davies
#6. The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt.
Dave Barry
#7. I don't intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what's going to happen from one day to the next.
Alex Colville
#8. They glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival. But in this kind of jungle you could never be sure where the real danger lurked.
Erich Segal
#9. Italians in particular are seen as either benign and child-like (the sweet old nonna with her meatballs), menacing mobsters, or hyper-sexualized housewives and gigolos; the kind of nourishment I'm looking for doesn't lie in any of these stereotypes.
Christopher Castellani
#10. They all folded their arms across their chests at exactly the same moment. It was a little bit funny, but mostly menacing. And
Stephenie Meyer
#11. I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me, or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.
Steven Bauer
#12. Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.
David Horsey
#13. In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
Mason Cooley
#14. He just seemed menacing. Like he could slit your throat, then sit down, prop his feet on your corpse, and eat a sandwich.
Dianne Duvall
#15. His face, like everything she knew about him, was purely contradictory. That cherubic mouth with those penetrating eyes: he was too lovely to be menacing, but too intense to be innocent.
Priscilla Glenn
#16. Firepaw held the menacing amber gaze for few moments. Warrior and apprentice, for a heartbeat their eyes were locked as enemies.
Erin Hunter
#17. I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf, And me an' my friends can walk towards you with our hats on backwards in a menacing way, Yo!
Terry Pratchett
#18. The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.
Barack Obama
#19. But troubles far more menacing than sodomy threatened Japan.
Brett L. Walker
#20. And just like magic, the Isle of the Lost began to form before their eyes, including the hidden and forbidden zones. The Forbidden Fortress appeared, a menacing-looking castle of spiky walls and twisty towers, located on the edge of the island. Right in the middle of Nowhere.
Melissa De La Cruz
#21. The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley
#22. That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.
Suzanne Collins
#23. Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
Patrick MacGill
#24. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
#25. Heal her," Broc said, his voice low and menacing. "You cannot allow Anice to die when you have the magic to help her." "She's beyond my magic. She's gone." Broc hugged Anice to him. "You failed her, Sonya!
Donna Grant
#26. He gripped the edge of the desk. "I've done my best to make sure my brothers have no blood on their hands," he said with menacing quiet. "I'm going to hell for all three of us." Beckett said defiantly.
Debra Anastasia
#27. The scene had been a nightmare, one of those insane nightmares where the most normal objects become infinitely menacing.
Philippa Gregory
#28. You didn't think you could escape us that easily, did you?" a deep menacing voice taunted in my ear. "I told you that you were the one I was looking for.
Brynn Myers
#29. Nothing was so hard for me to understand, so baffling, and at the same time so filled with menacing overtones as the commonplace remark, Human beings work to earn their bread, for if they don't eat, they die.
Osamu Dazai
#30. Wrangling the cat into the cage proved interesting, and Josie had several scratches before Clint bent down and let out a menacing growl. The cat took one look at him and with a disdainful sniff, turned to march into the cage.
Eve Langlais
#31. Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world of terror, and then locks the door behind you. The House of Small Shadows grows darker and takes on more menacing life with each step forward.
Michael Koryta
#32. With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.
Philip Roth
#33. Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
A.S.A Harrison
#34. A gang of wild turkeys patrolled the edge of the forest, upright and alert, looking oddly saurian and menacing, like a lost squadron of velociraptors.
Lev Grossman
#35. I suppose I'm a bit mean. My face on camera doesn't lend itself to happy nice guys. I think it's just that my bone structure looks menacing.
Richard C. Armitage
#36. He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.
George Orwell
#37. In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.
Christian De Duve
#38. I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving across their fields of vision with menacing speed. At that point it will be too late!
Wernher Von Braun
#39. What's so menacing about the universe?
The size. Of course I was smaller then.
Woody Allen
#40. about the biting white ants that moved in menacing ribbons over the plains, or the vipers or the sun, which sometimes pulsed so brightly it seemed to want to flatten you or eat you alive.
Paula McLain
#41. I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.
Andrew Mellon
#42. The chair legs behind me scrape against the floor, and Douchecanoe shrinks in his seat as over six hundred pounds of angry hockey players stare down at him. Fitzy is particularly menacing with his two full-sleeve tattoos and the cut over his eyebrow that he got during our last game.
Elle Kennedy
#43. When Americans look out on the world, they see nothing but dark and menacing strangers who appear to have no sense of rhythm at all, nor any respect or affection for white people; and white Americans really do not know what to make of all this, except to increase the defense budget.
James A. Baldwin
#44. Chris Waddle is off the pitch at the moment - exactly the position he is at his most menacing.
Gerald Sinstadt
#45. Why do some of us turn menacing?' she whispered.
Lois Lowry
#46. Just pretend you know what you're doing. Plant a menacing scowl on your face and stand guard at the door. If someone advances your way, brandish the weapon and bellow like an Arcrean clansman.
Nicole Sager
#47. ...and so many colors
I will have seen...
the menacing greys
and pine greens
the soft pink and purples
of spring
and summer blue
and so many others
without you.
Sanober Khan
#48. Disperse your menacing armies! And relinguish your delicious stores of Nestle Crunch bars.
Chuck Palahniuk
#49. I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.
Dave Bautista
#50. Everything he saw was unspeakably menacing and horrible; and whenever one of the organic entities appeared by its motions to be noticing him, he felt a stark, hideous fright which generally jolted him awake.
H.P. Lovecraft
#51. I picked up the nearest weapon I could lay my hands on: a stapler. I lifted it, going for "menacing." I admit it lacked a certain elegance, but hey. It was worth a shot. David placed his hand on my arm and pushed it back down.
"What?"
"Just ... that's embarrassing for all of us," he replied.
Rachel Hawkins
#52. Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
Truman Capote
#53. The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense.
Douglas MacArthur
#54. Much of the Wild had been lost, so that to them the Wild was the unknown, the terrible, the ever menacing and ever warring. But to him, in appearance and action and impulse, still clung the Wild.
Jack London
#55. I stare up at whiteness. When I was young, I thought that was what heaven would be like, all white light and nothing else. Now I know that can't be true, because white light is menacing.
Veronica Roth
#56. Once you have lifted your foot, do not be in a hurry to put it down again: who can tell what menacing nest of vipers you might step on.
Amos Oz
#57. Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.
Sylvia Plath
#58. What everyone is always afraid of is the unknown, or the unfamiliar. You got to have a look for a character that is mysterious and menacing, and doesn't quite look like what we've seen before.
Scott Derrickson
#60. Ron pointed Helen's gun at me. What kind of name is Ron for such a menacing figure?
Chris Fabry
#61. It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan in which it died away. Again and again it sounded, the whole air throbbing with it, strident, wild and menacing.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#62. To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough ...
Ralph Vaughan Williams
#63. When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
Barack Obama
#64. Unfortunately there is no vaccination to protect the soul from the menacing disease of social ignorance manifested by character-void homosapiens.
Tracey Bond
#65. They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me - Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#66. An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions like 'menacing-slash-playful,' but he or she was never, ever, just painting a face.
Steve Martin
#67. Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#68. There was something vaguely menacing about the way the two children were moving behind the smiling, unsuspecting family. Like predators
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#69. Once more, dully menacing, comes the noise of gunfire, and already from afar, like the bill of a woodpecker, sounds the knock-knocking of a machine gun. We grow calm and are almost glad to hear again the familiar, trusty noises of death.
Erich Maria Remarque
#70. The wolf turned to Rachel. She was afraid to run, afraid fleeing would make it chase her. Somewhere in the stored files of her mind, she remembered one should not look directly at a menacing dog, but she couldn't take her eyes from it.
G.G. Collins
#71. Puck's eyes gleamed, feral and menacing. Oh, I don't know, princess. Maybe it was because I was stupid enough to care about you. Maybe I actually thought I had a chance. Silly me, thinking that one little kiss meant anything to you.
Julie Kagawa
#72. The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.
Peter S. Beagle
#73. I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#74. People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.
Salman Rushdie
#75. Just what we need.A dull-witted lord," Constance mused. "At least he doesn't seem menacing anymore."
Just wait,old woman, and you will learn just how menacing this dull-witted lord can be, Ranulf promised.
Michele Sinclair
#76. The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of control ... Good writing ... explodes in the reader's face. Whenever the writer writes, it's always three or four or five o'clock in the morning in her head.
Joy Williams
#77. What he sounded like. Desperate. But it didn't matter. "I'm serious." His voice was cold. Menacing even. He didn't like it when people made fun of him. "I need to find her. You have a problem with that?
J.C. Reed
#78. Trevor was as menacing as he was gorgeous. If he were a vampire, he'd be the dark kind, the kind that sneaks up on innocent girls and bites without a thought.
Ellen Schreiber
#80. We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
Federica Montseny
#81. You are afraid of me?" Reed asks me, sounding unpleasantly surprised.
"Of course I'm afraid of you. You're menacing, you're overbearing, you're arrogant, and if you don't see that, then you can just add high to the list," I say, using my fingers to tick off his shortcomings.
Amy A. Bartol
#82. While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance.
William Dampier
#83. In my most menacing tone, I firmly told her, I will drag your sleeping ass out into the sun, if you so much as drop a fang at my sister. Play nice.
S.C. Stephens
#84. A sound from upstairs sends my thought process reeling. It's just a small noise, perhaps the sound of your feet brushing the crimson carpet in the bedroom? It's not loud or menacing, but it sends a wave of adrenaline crashing through me. You're on your way!
Felicity Brandon
#85. WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
Ambrose Bierce
#86. In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham
#87. Computers: he always fixed on computers when his mind wandered into the future
instruments he revered and hated. The computer world was a place where snotty kids knew everything and nothing ... The computer was part of a future cloudy, unpredictable and menacing.
Howard Fast
#88. I've never had anyone say they love me before. Libby lobes me, that is true, but there is something a bit menacing about the way she says it.
Louise Rennison
#89. I no longer hated the whining, menacing dragonfly we rode in, but admired its grace as we surged towards the clouds, the lights of Edinburgh twinkling below us like the starry constellations of a world upside down.
Rosie Pugh
#90. Nice flash," he said in an odd, strangely menacing way, like a dare and a put-down all together.
"Some of our forces are more special than others."
Odell tipped his head at the beret on Ian's head. "The beret says it all, right?"
"I would hope so.
Mary Calmes
#91. I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.
Rory Bremner
#92. Menacing, maniacal, like bees
Kept in glass jars
For centuries.
History wants to hurt you.
Cynthia Cruz
#93. James Jackson actually made menacing faces at the Quakers in the gallery, calling them outright lunatics, then launched into a tirade so emotional and incoherent that reporters in the audience had difficulty recording his words.
Joseph J. Ellis
#94. My issues with it are that simply in terms of my own work. It represents 30 years of output. And some of the things, some of the pieces I've used there, when I first wrote them, they seemed probably very menacing, and I hear them now, and they're just kind of pleasant, if that's the word.
Richard Meltzer
#95. If he didn't call you by name, then you've got nothing to worry about. Maybe he has a glass eye and couldn't look at anyone but you."
"You could be right. But I've always thought glass eyes were kind of expressionless, not hate-filled and menacing.
Liliana Hart
#96. Cahir, wrinkling his brow imperiously, shouted back something menacing about imperial service, backing up his words with the classically military and ever effective 'for fuck's sake'.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#97. My knee struck a tree root as my vision went black. Suddenly, I was in a building at Haven Crest, kneeling on the floor. Blood, thick and clotted like canned cherries, crept down the walls. The lights above my head flickered off then on with a menacing hum.
Kady Cross
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