Quotes About Empty Threats

#1. I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

Neil Gaiman

#2. The marquis breathed heavily on his fingernails and polished them on the lapel of his coat. "I have always felt," he said, "that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.

Neil Gaiman

#3. Empty threats are for dreamers. And I fancy myself a realist.

Natalya Vorobyova

#4. A gown does not make a bride, just as a few empty threats do not make a rebel.

Morgan Rhodes

#5. I have always felt," he said, "that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats

Neil Gaiman

#6. Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#7. You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#8. Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation.

Kiana Davenport

#9. And the thing about threats is that most of them are empty, nothing more than smoke in the breeze.

Collin Henderson

#10. Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

Iain Pears

#11. I come from Chino, so all your threats are empty.

John Darnielle

#12. All things come to pass
When they do, if they do
All things come to their end
When they do, as they do ...

Keorapetse Kgositsile

#13. I wanted this club for you," Kingsley confessed. "The truth is, I was building it for you. I wanted you to have somewhere safe you could go and be you. Because I love you,

Tiffany Reisz

#14. Gethen shouted threats as they left, but the warnings were as empty as his sandy cell. His final words to Keefe were the only ones with any impact. "You're choosing the wrong side, boy. You'll regret it when you see your mother's vision realized. But then it'll be too late.

Shannon Messenger

#15. When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.

Robert Rankin

#16. You came to earth to answer a question God knew would be asked. You are the solution to a problem in your generation.

Myles Munroe

#17. I am just trying to keep it real.

Jessie Ware

#18. It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#19. Bio-technology is the science of the future.

Nita Ambani

#20. I realized that there are some things about all of us, no matter where we're from, that connects us as humans. We're looking for the same sorts of contentment in our lives and while some people are searching a little harder than others, we're not all that different.

Buck Brannaman

#21. Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

Kevin Costner

#22. Stupid Fucking Logan Fucking Matthews

Jay McLean

#23. Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

Victor LaValle

#24. It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

Nick Hornby