Top 100 Threaten Quotes
#1. Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
Kenichi Fukui
#2. Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of the demands of reality, and of those elements in reality that support or threaten meaningful existence.
James Luther Adams
#3. I have to be very aware of the increasing downside risks that threaten the overall global situation.
Ralph Goodale
#4. In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide.
Ian Stevenson
#5. Because Bodee pulls back when other guys his age rush forward. Because his two fingers on my hips while we're dancing and swaying to slow songs don't threaten me.
Courtney C. Stevens
#6. Don't threaten me with your eyebrows.
I'm not. I'm interrogating you with my one raised eyebrow. If I was threatening you, I'd use both eyebrows. Like this.
Shelly Laurenston
#7. Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
Billie Holiday
#8. I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.
George Voinovich
#9. In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation ... , I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions.
Franklin Pierce
#10. Would dream-me threaten to split you from stomach to sternum only a day after healing you from a similar injury?"
He gave a soft snort. "Yes. Absolutely.
Jodi Meadows
#11. Besides, people never regard anything that serves and benefits them as mysterious; only the things which damage or threaten them are mysterious.
Karel Capek
#12. You're a monster that mothers threaten children with and you're still touchy as an ugly girl in a pretty dress.
Caitlin Kittredge
#13. It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable.
Issa Rae
#14. Have you ever thought that radical ideas threaten institutions, then become institutions, and in turn reject radical ideas which threaten institutions?
Saul Bass
#15. I do not threaten, I merely advise caution.
Neil Gaiman
#16. It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
Ted Cruz
#17. You, and rule!" she said. "You don't rule, don't flatter yourself. You have only got more than your share of the money, and make people work for you for two pounds a week, or threaten them with starvation.
D.H. Lawrence
#18. Most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we feel this attitude needs any sort of explanation.
David Graeber
#19. Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
Thomas Sowell
#20. Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
Marsha Sinetar
#21. For a man who thought it was okay to threaten a little girl and her mother? There was no second chance.
Eve Langlais
#22. I am a teacher. Pay close attention - this will be on the test. You don't wreck buildings. You don't take children hostage. And you don't threaten people with violence. Okay class dismissed. Looks like you fail!
Yoko
#23. While Ebola's deadly reach has proven to be a complex and unique international challenge, the many uncertainties surrounding this virus continue to threaten U.S. national security.
Marco Rubio
#24. Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.
Jane Green
#25. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness. - Jem Carstairs
Cassandra Clare
#26. The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it ... I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.
Anne Lamott
#27. 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
#28. If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake," he said. "Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur, no Lister." Freedom was a foundation for creativity.
Walter Isaacson
#29. Men's supply of passion, she knew from long experience, was easily depleted. Though they might threaten to move earth and heaven too, half an hour later their boasts would be damp sheets and resentment.
Clive Barker
#30. Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.
B.W. Powe
#31. Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.
Anita Shreve
#32. When I'm drafting, I suppose it's an intuitive process - figuring out when something just has a surreal glaze on it and when it grapples with something that could threaten a character's day-to-day reality.
Karen Russell
#34. We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him. But
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#35. I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.
Charlton Heston
#37. To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.
Stephen Breyer
#38. You're better off single," Bill had always told him. "More marketable. A relationship will threaten your role as America's heartthrob." And always he would add, "Whatever you do, Hill, don't get someone pregnant. It'd be a death knell to your image.
Karen Kingsbury
#39. What on earth is his hold over you? Did he threaten you? Beat you up? You know, I could help if he injured you - "
"Dearie, we owe 'im our lives." I gaped at them, certain I was mishearing. Perhaps they owed him their wives? Knives?
Tarun Shanker
#40. ( ... ) personal prejudice and financial greed are the two great evils that threaten courts of law, and once they get the upper hand they immediately hamstring society, by destroying all justice.
Thomas More
#41. In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor ... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.
William Rehnquist
#42. You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#43. Most men give a girl a ring, you know, not threaten them with murder." Hatcher
Christina Henry
#44. Homo Sapiens Loses Control Can humans go on running the world and giving it meaning? How do biotechnology and artificial intelligence threaten humanism? Who might inherit humankind, and what new religion might replace humanism?
Yuval Noah Harari
#45. Friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps
C.E. Murphy
#46. 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
#47. Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis Diller
#48. Ya know, you're not supposed to fall in love with anyone when I'm not around to threaten them. - Jase
H.R. Willaston
#49. I brandished my parasol at him like a rapier. You, sir, are an abominable scalawag of a man, and I'll be damned if I let you threaten me.
Susan Dennard
#50. This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.
Etgar Keret
#51. The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and then hit 10.1 billion by 2100. Meanwhile, our energy resources are dwindling, and droughts threaten our food supplies.
Annalee Newitz
#52. Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#53. Sometimes, I feel my breath coming in shorter, quicker, spastic bursts, feel my heart threaten to thunder through my ribs, feel sweat beading on my brow ... and I know it's time to bust out those "chocolate frogs" from Harry Potter.
Shannon Celebi
#54. Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.
Peter Diamandis
#55. What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. God has and always will remain faithful to His word. Even when my doubts and fears threaten to drown me as I thrash blindly against my Rescuer, He carries me to the other side. When fiery circumstances take my breath away, He hides me in the shelter of His wings.
Katherine J. Walden
#57. In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.
Sandy Berger
#58. 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
#59. Don't threaten me, you piece of filth.
M.J. Carter
#60. Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.
Stephen Harper
#61. The more people threaten you,
the more you are very right.
Petra Hermans
Petra Hermans
#62. You can have ambition
But not too much
You should aim to be successful
But not too successful
Otherwise you will threaten the man
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#63. The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess
#64. It is difficult to threaten someone who doesn't have the necessary attention span to register fear.
Rob Thurman
#65. We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.
Hillary Clinton
#66. I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he'll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up.
Melissa McCarthy
#67. Dear Teddy, you are without a doubt the best boyfriend in the world. You're kind. You're generous. You threaten to maim people for me. -- Billy
Allan Heinberg
#68. I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated.
Paul Broun
#69. Only those who have tried to understand and expound the Bible, and especially Paul as a man of his own day, only those who have happily escaped the dangers which threaten us on these two sides (exposition and application), are entitled to cast the first stone.
N. T. Wright
#70. Like all mothers, mother nature will tuck you safely into bed at night only to come into your room two hours later in a scary mask and threaten you with a nail
Greg Evigan
#71. With Rebecca we enter a world of dreams and daydreams, but they always threaten to tip over into nightmare.
Daphne Du Maurier
#72. We must think upon these things that threaten our love, which cause us to fear its loss. Fear is not good. We must conquer it and our mistrust. A
Janelle Taylor
#73. Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
Pierre Corneille
#74. If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?
Laozi
#75. Never hesitate to remove yourself from individuals or situations that threaten your peace of mind.
Peprah Boasiako
#76. 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
#77. To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#78. Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.
John Green
#79. Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
Shulamith Firestone
#80. Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.
Hosea Ballou
#81. Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
Jello Biafra
#82. How pleasant to hold in mind, through the crevasses of our moods, at three in the afternoon when lassitude and despair threaten, that there is always a plane taking off for somewhere.
Alain De Botton
#83. Grover, the former sergeant, told me that "there was a running joke within the department: don't threaten suicide with officers, because they'll accelerate it.
Anonymous
#84. That was a very short conversation in which Tony had managed to lie to me, threaten me, and flirt with me. That took a lot of skill. My guess was they'd be promoting him soon.
Marshall Thornton
#85. I've watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies both cunning and cruel. Knowing you possess the power to defeat most of them doesn't threaten me, luv. It relieves me to my very core.
Jeaniene Frost
#86. Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
J. D. Hayworth
#87. Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.
Robin Sharma
#89. Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.
David Harvey
#90. Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be.
Daniel L. Schacter
#91. The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
Walter Martin
#92. Rage - whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders' insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us - is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.
Bonnie Myotai Treace
#93. The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom
They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon
Tupac Shakur
#94. No way they could threaten him, not even with Amelie; he'd already given Amelie the finger on the way out of Morganville and he clearly wasn't worried about her coming after him - or, if so, what would happen when she did.
Rachel Caine
#95. Predator is not property," Grimm said in a calm, level tone. "She is not my possession. She is my home. Her crew are not my employees. They are my family. And if you threaten to take my home and destroy the livelihood of my family again, Commodore, I will be inclined to kill you where you stand.
Jim Butcher
#96. Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.
Bernard Lown
#97. To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.
Sandor Katz
#98. The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#99. I don't even know you!"
"Oh," Casey said, "You will."
"Don't you threaten me!
T.J. Klune
#100. I feel safe when people threaten me, but I feel threaten, when people respect me, because I understand they want something, but I do not understand what they want.
M.F. Moonzajer
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