Quotes About Making Threats

#1. Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.

Charles Krauthammer

#2. Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

Daniel Ellsberg

#3. False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.

Jerome Groopman

#4. I can be a lazy slob.

Shirley Maclaine

#5. We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene.

Francis Ford Coppola

#6. The wisdom that comes from being conscious of the real threats to you and your mission will sharpen your deliberateness in decision & choice-making, associations and positioning.

Archibald Marwizi

#7. Sometimes we need to fight for peace.

Veronica Roth

#8. Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.

Jared Diamond

#9. At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose. I think in the course of time I'll find a middle ground, but I also carry that sense of responsibility. I'm in a position to defeat stereotypes.

Michelle Shocked

#10. A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

Nikita Dudani

#11. A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all.

Kevin Rudd

#12. Bobbie ignored the macho posturing. Everyone dealt with pre-combat jitters in their own way. Bobbie preferred obsessive list making. But flexing and threats were good too.

James S.A. Corey

#13. We can all reveal God wherever we are.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.

Bill Frist

#15. I'm a disgruntled ex-civil servant, and I'm armed. If you don't process my license right now I'm going to start making small, yet significant holes in people.

Howard Tayler

#16. He realized, even if she didn't, that John possessed great
wisdom as well as great power. Sometimes, making a real human connection was more effective than the power of persuasion and the threats of a sociopath put together. And that was totally awesome.

Natasha Larry

#17. I wonder,' said Frodo. 'It's my doom, I think, to go to that Shadow yonder, so that a way will be found. But will good or evil show it to me?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#19. One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

Jane Austen

#20. Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

Donald Wuerl

#21. The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead

William Shakespeare

#22. The IRS says it's been getting death threats since the health care bill passed because the IRS is going to be the ones in charge of implementing it. They say the threats people are making to the IRS are so bad, that they are actually hindering the IRS's ability to threaten people.

Jay Leno

#23. If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#24. We must start to prepare for a warming world in the same way that we prepare for the possibility of terrorism - by making sure our infrastructure is secure and by working to minimize threats as much as possible.

Jackie Speier

#25. The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

Hamid Karzai

#26. Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

Warren Buffett

#27. After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

Howard Coble

#28. You can't live with regrets. It's about the journey

Mariah Carey