Never Threaten Quotes

#1. Progress or lack of it, can only be judged by a measuring rod, and if the rod is placed low enough the standard will never threaten you

Sara Niles

#2. I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#3. Questions are disturbing, especially those which may threaten our traditions, our institutions, our security. But questions never threaten the living God, who is constantly calling us, and who affirms for us that love is stronger than hate, blessings stronger than cursing.

Madeleine L'Engle

#4. In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

Sandy Berger

#5. Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

George Horace Lorimer

#6. We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.

Bruno Latour

#7. A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#8. Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.

George R R Martin

#9. You can threaten a village wise woman with death and torture and she may say "jesus is lord" to survive, but you can never know what's really in her heart ... that, I feel, is how the goddess survived centuries of history and hatred.

Dianne Sylvan

#10. There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.

Corey Hart

#11. Never hesitate to remove yourself from individuals or situations that threaten your peace of mind.

Peprah Boasiako

#12. The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

Lord Acton

#13. What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.

Pema Chodron

#14. I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.

Massad Ayoob

#15. We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.

John F. Kerry

#16. Besides, people never regard anything that serves and benefits them as mysterious; only the things which damage or threaten them are mysterious.

Karel Capek

#17. There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort.

Mark Matousek

#18. And I realize I have never once actually been happy in my life.
And also never felt any kind of care that didn't threaten to give up when challenged.

Sam Pink

#19. Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause, mayhem because they enjoy the covert support - usually by means of technology transfers - of one or more major powers within the charmed circle of global 'good guys'.

Margaret Thatcher

#20. Remember ... People can always threaten your very life but they can never take away your dreams.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#21. To threaten someone with a gun is the same as attacking them, If you had taken his gun, the real war would have started, and in all likelihood we would never have got out of that place alive,

Jose Saramago

#22. Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things.

Rush Limbaugh

#23. war often wounds the soul as deeply as it does the body, sometimes more so.

Mary Balogh

#24. Maybe that's what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.

Courtney Milan

#25. A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their way not without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints, invisibly helping.

George Eliot

#26. In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.

Valentino Rossi

#27. I've never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating. Or maybe I'd have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problem ... It was a gradual process but I changed myself.

Lucy Hale

#28. Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.

Hillary Clinton

#29. Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour.

Horace

#30. I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

John Podhoretz

#31. The apostles never described themselves as wealthy; instead, they warned those who were rich that their wealth could indeed threaten their perspective on eternal matters. Like

J. Warner Wallace

#32. You can only threaten someone with hell if they have never had hell

Ishmael Beah

#33. Girls are the trickiest and most unpredictable creatures a fellow like me will ever talk to.

John Elder Robison

#34. His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

Oliver Hudson

#35. Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.

Roy Cohn

#36. I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.

Chaka Khan

#37. A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.

Swami Vivekananda

#38. I'm not good, Mac. Never have been.'
What-true confession time? my eyes tease. Don't need it.
'I want what I want and I take it.'
Is he warning me? What could he possibly threaten me with now?
'There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.

Karen Marie Moning