Top 100 Quotes About Threatened
#1. New Jersey was threatened like no other region in this country and what we did was we took action within the constitution to make sure that law enforcement had all the information they needed.
Chris Christie
#2. Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide ... And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.
Faina Ranevskaya
#3. It is hard to believe that Gladstone would have ordered the invasion of Egypt in 1882 if the Egyptian government had not threatened to renege on its obligations to European bondholders, himself among them.
Niall Ferguson
#4. This next is my grandest sorrow, this grief I brought my own to carry, the weight of which threatened to crush all I had.
It's followed, fittingly enough, by him. While I was at my darkest, he came for me.
T.J. Klune
#5. People are only mean when they are threatened.
Mitch Albom
#6. I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal.
Platon
#7. You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know."
Breeze laughed. "Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We
threatened to kill you if you didn't!
Brandon Sanderson
#9. I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
Albert Camus
#10. When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
Laura Linney
#11. My mom's like me and she doesn't want to look weak in front of other people. And she's like Colby in the way that she has to take hits at other people whenever she feels threatened. That used to make me want to cave and do what she wants. But it doesn't anymore.
M-E Girard
#12. With an evil, tempting wink that threatened to undo him, she added, I'm the one you have to watch out for.
Aria Kane
#13. He gave me an unexpected soft look that made me close my eyes again. "Okay," I said. "What next, Master Zagan?" "Next, Little One, you need to jack the strongest one you can find." I killed the smile that threatened to break out on my face.
Susan Kaye Quinn
#14. In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
Walter Ulbricht
#15. When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling.
Bruno Tonioli
#16. Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.
William Allen White
#17. If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door.
Joe Bageant
#18. Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.
Paul Hawken
#19. People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.
Unita Blackwell
#20. In anxiety, however, we are threatened without knowing what steps to take to meet the danger. Anxiety is the feeling of being "caught," "overwhelmed"; and instead of becoming sharper, our perceptions generally become blurred or vague.
Rollo May
#21. Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.
Jennifer Granholm
#22. There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.
Daniel Webster
#23. Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
Stephen Covey
#24. Men had been threatened by women from the days of Pandora, the first woman, & would not spare any efforts in order to rule over womankind.Depriving women of clothes was the first thing to do in order to put women at a disadvantage. And it also turned women into playthings from formidable foes.[MMT]
Nicholas Chong
#25. If any harm is to come to Turkey's border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened, it is prepared for any eventuality, we will take the necessary measures to reduce the risks related to cross-border security.
Ahmet Davutoglu
#26. The archbishop of St. Andrews threatened that if Knox preached, he would be shot on sight. Knox preached anyway, from Perth to Fife and beyond. As a result, the summer of 1559 saw an extraordinary revival spread throughout Scotland.59
Douglas Bond
#27. I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.
Stieg Larsson
#28. I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people.
Ron Paul
#29. Did I tell you Jeb threatened to turn Bret into a smashed pumpkin if I don't get home by midnight? Taking a sweet fairy tale like "Cinderella" and twisting it into a death threat. That's seriously warped.
A.G. Howard
#30. My mind is like a pond without ripples. Your mind is full of waves because you feel separated from, and often threatened by, an unplanned, unwelcome occurrence. Your mind is like a pond into which someone has just dropped a boulder!
Dan Millman
#31. In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.
Robert Dale Owen
#32. The worst part is when cells feel so threatened by their chemically marinated surroundings, that they decide to mutate as a defensive mechanism, and start to reproduce without taking their immediate surroundings into account. This mutation is called cancer.
Gudjon Bergmann
#33. [Israel] is our ally and in that we've made a very strong commitment to support Israel, we will support Israel if her security is threatened.
George W. Bush
#34. Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.
Elie Wiesel
#35. When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#36. Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.
Janet Fitch
#37. I don't mean to be rude - " he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable.
"Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.
J.K. Rowling
#38. There's a rumour going 'round that if you amass a certain number of penalty points on your driving licence, the authorities will make you take your test again! Now, if ever there was an incentive to drive carefully, they could not have threatened a more terrifying ordeal.
Jasper Carrott
#39. When Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio cracked down on illegal immigration without getting permission from Obama, they threatened to revoke his 287(g) status. When Sheriff Joe refused to balk, they filed suit against him with a frivolous civil rights claim.
Russell Pearce
#40. People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who has found their citizenship in places they cannot control.
Richard Rohr
#41. Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the red squirrel and dormouse. It is not realistic, practical or even desirable to completely eradicate grey squirrels, but we must control them effectively.
Jim Knight
#42. It takes a special man not to feel threatened by a smart, headstrong girl like you. And it takes a generous, loving heart to want to nurture that strength, to push you outside your comfort zone, instead of tamping it down or trying to control it." Duke
Melissa Foster
#43. Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious
Yann Martel
#44. Like the ideals of freedom and democracy, the right to stand one's ground was held to be an exclusively white prerogative. Even when threatened by a mob, black people were to back down or submit - never to stand up for themselves.
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
#45. Slamdance actually is indie and rebellious. Sundance obviously felt threatened.
Yony Leyser
#46. Ashcroft went on to say that our way of life is being threatened by a group of radical religious fanatics who are armed and dangerous. And then he called for prayers in the schools and an end to gun control.
Jay Leno
#47. Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.
Barack Obama
#48. In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.
Thomas Menino
#49. Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn the same amount of money as our male counterparts, these are rights that all people deserve, and they are being threatened.
Ann McLane Kuster
#50. That would make an interesting story: How did you two get to be friends? Oh, she threatened to kill me ...
Karen McQuestion
#51. A person who knows who they are is not threatened by the beliefs of others.
Robert Anthony
#52. It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
Hans Jonas
#53. I am threatened by the resolve that you are my soul. You are my being, you are every breath I take, you are my home, you are my sweet sin.
Cassandra Giovanni
#54. One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Winston S. Churchill
#55. A man's character became involved to the point that he was caught in a mental turmoil which threatened all the values he held and threw them into doubt.
Viktor E. Frankl
#56. But this Ruth Mummert...he felt things for her he had never felt for Salome. Was that love, also? If it were, it was like a fire that warmed him and threatened to burn him all at once.
Jan Drexler
#57. I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.
Aimee Mullins
#58. I'll kill myself. I swear, I'll kill myself," you threatened.
"We're not going to leave you alone," I said.
But we had to, eventually.
After all, people are always separable.
David Levithan
#59. No one's banging down my door. People see the way I look, and they don't feel threatened, but they should watch out for me. They don't know there's a steel rod that drives me. I get ticked off, and the rage just gets me going. My motor is anger.
Tim Daly
#60. When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.
Elliott Abrams
#61. It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.
Glenn Greenwald
#62. How bright such memories seem when the life they catalogue is threatened! Afterwards,
Kate Morton
#63. This soldier had been taken prisoner in some remote part of Asia, and was threatened with an immediate agonising death if he did not renounce Christianity and follow Islam. He refused to deny his faith, and was tortured, flayed alive, and died, praising and glorifying Christ.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#64. A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threatened. This must be resolved by whatever means possible.
Heidi Julavits
#65. It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the ... where science can go. The rest, you know, are just fine with science. And it has been that way ever since the beginning.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#66. Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on national television. Now, that's really a remarkable theory, that it is defamation to show people what he said on national TV. I think the voters are smarter than that.
Ted Cruz
#67. If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs,
it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence.
Toba Beta
#68. I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.
Elayne Boosler
#69. Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.
Mary Astor
#70. The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes - I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter altogether - is that white men do not want their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened.
James Baldwin
#71. The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.
Gregory Bateson
#72. I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.
Paul Haggis
#73. One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.
Andy Rooney
#74. Dev called Katya on the comm panel as soon as he was able. "How are you?"
"Fine." Her lips curved. "Connor brought me a smoothie -he said you threatened to cut his legs off at the knees if he forgot."
"Damn straight.
Nalini Singh
#75. Later, they also found a camp of outlaws who, when offered the chance to join the rebel ranks, unsheathed their daggers and threatened to cut the three into tiny, bloody pieces and eat them for dinner.
They too that as a firm no.
Morgan Rhodes
#76. The Kazakh authorities banned the film and threatened to sue the comedian after its release in 2006. But later Kazakhstan's foreign minister said he is 'grateful' to Borat for 'helping attract tourists' to the country.
Anupama Chopra
#77. No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
Andrew Vachss
#78. A hallmark of domestic violence is a man feeling threatened by a woman's friends and attempting to control or limit a woman's social contacts, or to isolate her socially.
John M. Gottman
#79. In a world threatened by pain and death, stories of miracle workers are a psychological necessity, because the alternative is unmitigated horror and despair.
Philip Ball
#80. There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.
Menachem Begin
#82. An all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction - indeed, in some sense was the destruction - of a hierarchical society. In
George Orwell
#83. People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.
Lena Dunham
#84. When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
Yann Martel
#85. One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.
Steven Pinker
#86. Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.
Amy Poehler
#87. Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it,
Mike Huckabee
#89. If you even suggest to my crew that you've threatened your way aboard my lady, I'll rip out your spine."
"That's unbearably arousing.
Meljean Brook
#90. Elizabeth waited until he had left and then promptly burst into laughter. She couldn't help it, she had been soaked, threatened by a skunk, attacked by a dog and now given a moral lesson by a man that had threatened her with a Winchester earlier.
She couldn't remember ever having a better day.
Grace Willows
#91. On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.
Marc Racicot
#92. Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
George Eliot
#93. Are you having a midlife crisis?"
"You'll be having an end of life crisis if you say that again," he threatened.
Nicole Castle
#94. This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.
H.G.Wells
#95. Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.
Susanna Moore
#96. What worries me," he adds, "is that this circus-like atmosphere may have scared off many young scientists. It actually has a chilling effect. It prevents scientists from participating in the public discourse, because they fear they, or their department head, will be threatened.
Jane Mayer
#97. Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
Peter Lewis Allen
#98. Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market,
Bill Gross
#99. Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if you manage people by love-that is, if you show them respect and trust-they start to perform up to their real capabilities.
Jan Carlzon
#100. the only way to find peace was to kill everyone who threatened it.
Amy Tintera
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