Threatening Quotes
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening.
Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful.
...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.
We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.
When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.
You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.
Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.
You'll find people less threatening if you hear what they're needing rather than what they're thinking about you.
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.
The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.
People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem
They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didnt have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted.
I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea.
Those struggling with life-threatening thoughts do not feel connected to others. They feel all alone- even alone in the midst of a crowd.
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.
Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.
Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.
If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.
Steve Rom's bravery is unique. Faced with life-threatening circumstances, he focused his determination and spirit to defeat an unbeatable disease. Steve's story is an inspiration to all.
Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.
Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.
If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.
Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.
Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change—it’s threatening. I thrive on it.
It's best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.
For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.
Every time I open my Bible I will read it as the Word of 'God, that cannot lie;' and when I get a promise or a threatening, I will either rejoice or tremble because I know that these stand fast.
I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.
I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you, and proceed to the next command.
Tempus would be protected, better shielded from whatever the Stepson thought threatening, if love could heal and save.
Ideas that change business models and that can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends.
If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.
