Quotes about Threatened

Threatened men live long. Votes: 3

Threatened folk live long. Votes: 3

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur. Votes: 3

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. Votes: 2

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine. Votes: 2

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble. Votes: 2

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. Votes: 2

Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all. Votes: 2

Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches. Votes: 2

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. Votes: 2

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed. Votes: 2

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. Votes: 2

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt. Votes: 2

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered. Votes: 2

I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures. Votes: 2

Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn't understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear. Votes: 2

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. Votes: 2

Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens? Votes: 2

The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our solar system, and still more outside it, that could make Earth uninhabitable by humans. Votes: 2

Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get. Votes: 2

If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions. Votes: 2

But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I've actually apologized to some people I was a real jerk to, because I feel ashamed. I didn't need to be that hungry. There was something going on inside me when I was angry and feeling very threatened and not feeling good about myself. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes. Votes: 2

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. Never run away from anything. Never! Votes: 2

I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm. Votes: 2

My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn. Votes: 2

Oh, justice is what you're threatened with. Votes: 0

Why do men feel threatened by women? Votes: 0

Power people are generally threatened by authority people... Votes: 0

Don't be threatened by people smarter than you. Votes: 0

Men in authority are now a threatened minority. Votes: 0

People are only mean when they are threatened. Votes: 0

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Votes: 0

I threatened to kung fu you. Oh my God. Votes: 0

War mages ordered, threatened and bitched. They didn't deal. Votes: 0

Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man. Votes: 0

...my sanity threatened to take a holiday without me. Votes: 0

Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality Votes: 0

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty. Votes: 0

Slamdance actually is indie and rebellious. Sundance obviously felt threatened. Votes: 0

Being threatened seems to being out the worst in me. Votes: 0

I can tell when men are threatened by my height. Votes: 0

Colorado's economy is already being threatened by unchecked climate change. Votes: 0

The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. Votes: 0

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy. Votes: 0

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened. Votes: 0

People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power. Votes: 0

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. Votes: 0

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. Votes: 0

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions. Votes: 0

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself. Votes: 0

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books. Votes: 0

right now being born a girl is to be born threatened ... Votes: 0

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened. Votes: 0

Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened. Votes: 0

When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling. Votes: 0

People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter. Votes: 0

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures. Votes: 0

Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it. Votes: 0

A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality. Votes: 0

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977. Votes: 0

If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women Votes: 0

People living on atolls like Tuvalu are among the world's most threatened populations. Votes: 0

A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman. Votes: 0

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. Votes: 0

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy. Votes: 0

If any guy threatened her she'd probably suffocate him with her oversized tee. Votes: 0

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority. Votes: 0

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth. Votes: 0

God is most certainly not threatened by science; He made it all possible. Votes: 0

I threw a strop one day and threatened to walk to Budleigh Salterton. Votes: 0

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened. Votes: 0

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. Votes: 0

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist. Votes: 0

There are more men threatned then stricken. [There are more men threatened than stricken.] Votes: 0

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times. Votes: 0

When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back. Votes: 0

The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them. Votes: 0

When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened. Votes: 0

And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity. Votes: 0

If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened. Votes: 0

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere. Votes: 0

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. Votes: 0

Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market, Votes: 0

If Russia's interests and security are threatened, Russia will resist. Everyone needs to know that. Votes: 0

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery? Votes: 0

A person who knows who they are is not threatened by the beliefs of others. Votes: 0

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future. Votes: 0

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. Votes: 0

The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment. Votes: 0

The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment. Votes: 0

No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature Votes: 0

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. Votes: 0

They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice. Votes: 0

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. Votes: 0

Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him. Votes: 0

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it Votes: 0

One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else. Votes: 0

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by Votes: 0

But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. Votes: 0

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it. Votes: 0

The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment. Votes: 0

A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark. Votes: 0

The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it. Votes: 0

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it. Votes: 0

The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak. Votes: 0

Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men. Votes: 0

I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head. Votes: 0

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place. Votes: 0

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened. Votes: 0

The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened. Votes: 0

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth Votes: 0

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness. Votes: 0

Hogwarts is threatened!" shouted Professor McGonagall. "Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school! Votes: 0

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Votes: 0

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task. Votes: 0

We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on. Votes: 0

Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically. Votes: 0

The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party. Votes: 0

Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless. Votes: 0

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result. Votes: 0

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'. Votes: 0

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. Votes: 0

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened. Votes: 0

I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like. Votes: 0

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America. Votes: 0

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats. Votes: 0

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork. Votes: 0

Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him. Votes: 0

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival. Votes: 0

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote. Votes: 0

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box. Votes: 0

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change. Votes: 0

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting. Votes: 0

If Sasha's threatened, Astrid's upset. If Astrid's upset, I'm going to kill whatever's upsetting her until she's happy again. (Zarek) Votes: 0

Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used. Votes: 0

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk. Votes: 0

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing. Votes: 0

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by other women, period. Votes: 0

The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order. Votes: 0

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral. Votes: 0

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting Votes: 0

When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life. Votes: 0

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness. Votes: 0

Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it, Votes: 0

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it. Votes: 0

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past. Votes: 0

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it? Votes: 0

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened. Votes: 0

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate. Votes: 0

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued. Votes: 0

Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior. Votes: 0

Cats never feel threatened. They are genetically incapable of accepting that anyone could possibly dislike anything as perfect as a cat. Votes: 0

We are living through an epochal shift. If we aren't careful, the elementary foundations of our pluralistic democracy will be threatened. Votes: 0

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do. Votes: 0

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right? Votes: 0

"Ž[Melisandre] "His Grace is growing fond of you." [Jon] "I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice." Page 58 Votes: 0

I, for one, am exhausted. I've been threatened, beaten, bitten and killed, and that was just in the last hour. (Jericho) Votes: 0

This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. Votes: 0

Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They're bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong. Votes: 0

North Korea threatened to attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend that we wanted to see it. Votes: 0

I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park. Votes: 0

The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says. Votes: 0

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us. Votes: 0

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again. Votes: 0

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday. Votes: 0

I won't be threatened or intimidated by anyone and I've always been prepared to do what is necessary to defend my interests. Votes: 0

We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some. Votes: 0

It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened. Votes: 0

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships. Votes: 0

Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions. Votes: 0

In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority. Votes: 0

This country to-day [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world. Votes: 0

He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man. Votes: 0

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. Votes: 0

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck. Votes: 0

Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide...And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled. Votes: 0

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. Votes: 0

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs. Votes: 0

Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes. Votes: 0

Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime. Votes: 0

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all. Votes: 0

We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond. Votes: 0

We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured. Votes: 0

I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people. Votes: 0

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people. Votes: 0

France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy . Votes: 0

Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government. Votes: 0

On the campaign trail, [Donald] Trump has threatened a trade war and repeatedly said that Mexico will pay for a wall on the Southern border. Votes: 0

I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble. Votes: 0

Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to wipe out whole industries within months. Votes: 0

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

I don't like being threatened, lied to, or manipulated. You'd do well to remember that. (Simone) Or what? You're going to snivel at me? (Xypher) Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What do you mean?— Leslie's voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day. Votes: 0

The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations. Votes: 0

It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened. Votes: 0

[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its own white supremacists practices. Votes: 0

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened. Votes: 0

Peace isn't an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it's an experience that's expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened. Votes: 0

When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions. Votes: 0

People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like. Votes: 0

Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile. Votes: 0

We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are. Votes: 0

North Korea threatened to launch a missile at South Korea. North Korea backed down after South Korea threatened to launch a sequel to 'Gangnam Style.' Votes: 0

hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing. Votes: 0

The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it. Votes: 0

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death. Votes: 0

Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall. Votes: 0

If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward. Votes: 0

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that. Votes: 0

Now Julie could stay here, in the Keep full of homicidal maniacs who grew teeth the size of switchblades and erupted into a violent frenzy when threatened. Votes: 0

It's very intimidating to be photographed, but if I kneel down and chat with you, so you're looking down at me, it makes you feel less threatened. Votes: 0

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world. Votes: 0

Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same. Votes: 0

We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business. Votes: 0

I don't have much racial stuff in my act. And no one's ever really threatened me to my face. Threats on the internet don't bother me so much. Votes: 0

As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened. Votes: 0

I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians. Votes: 0

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by. Votes: 0

I came up with an idea to turn the cliché inside out: instead of humans threatened by zombies, what if a sympathetic zombie was threatened by humans? Votes: 0

I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn't make verbal threats were the most dangerous. Votes: 0

He was through playing games. When it came to Soteria, he had no sense of humor whatsoever. Anyone who threatened her, ended their life. It was that simple. Votes: 0

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened. Votes: 0

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. Votes: 0

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions. Votes: 0

If one's safety is threatened, one often finds courage one didn't know one had, and the eldest Baudelaire found she could be brave enough to open the door. Votes: 0

The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened. Votes: 0

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened. Votes: 0

[People] think that they run the world. They think this election's an aberration. They think that [Donald] Trump is subhuman and a gigantic accident and that they're all threatened. Votes: 0

TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality. Votes: 0

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior. Votes: 0

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat. Votes: 0

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter. Votes: 0

[People] think that they run the world. They think this election's an aberration. They think that [Donald] Trump is subhuman and a gigantic accident and that they're all threatened. Votes: 0

We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are. Votes: 0

And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set. Votes: 0

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness. Votes: 0

What is wonderful to see is how incredibly affectionate and physically affectionate Nancy Reagan was, you know? She was so on her guard, she was threatened by just about everybody. Votes: 0

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine. Votes: 0

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Votes: 0

We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet. Votes: 0

As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives. Votes: 0

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred, or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discreditability. Votes: 0

Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of Moses and Isaiah and Luke and Paul. Votes: 0

They have terrified my poor wife and threatened my very person!" Halt eyed the man impassivley until the outburst was finished. Worse than that," he said quietly, "they've wasted my time. Votes: 0

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When we refused to be forced out of Berlin, we demonstrated to the people of Europe that with their cooperation we would act, and act resolutely, when their freedom was threatened. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them. Votes: 0

She just threatened to throw the next man who shoots at you out the window. Megan is awake. She offered to help. God, Trent, what is it with you and women? Votes: 0

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral. Votes: 0

The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until it's threatened. Then it becomes infinitely precious. Votes: 0

It was a Russian airplane that was bombed over the Sinai Peninsula. When the Russians conduct air strikes on IS, they are doing so because they too are threatened by terror. Votes: 0

And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too. Votes: 0

Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take notice or we might find our own survival threatened. Votes: 0

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities. Votes: 0

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell. Votes: 0

Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability - not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins Votes: 0

all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened. Votes: 0

Like 'em or hate 'em, these once peaceful gun owners of the '90s are feeling a lot like Jews of 1939 Germany. Maligned, lied about, persecuted and threatened. Afraid, confused and angry. Votes: 0

Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened. Votes: 0

But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath and Beyond, a documentary by Kaia Skyhawk. Votes: 0

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it. Votes: 0

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened. Votes: 0

Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty. Votes: 0

The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is deteriorating. Pollution is everywhere. Climate is changing. Natural balances are threatened. Votes: 0

Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin? Votes: 0

I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in the thought that we can always pull the plug. Votes: 0

Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you." "I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin. "And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried. Votes: 0

I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike. Votes: 0

What makes me angry'is that it wasn't me who revealed that I had been with Osama Bin Laden. I originally denied being involved with Osama when the London Guardian threatened to 'out' me. Votes: 0

What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love. Votes: 0

The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction. Votes: 0

The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity. Votes: 0

I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me. Votes: 0

We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance. Votes: 0

A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them. Votes: 0

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank. Votes: 0

Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened. Votes: 0

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted. Votes: 0

At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly skillful advocate for the medium he has chosen to embrace. Votes: 0

At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution. Votes: 0

I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique." Votes: 0

Each business is a victim of Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than the ability to exploit it. Digital Darwinism does not discriminate. Every business is threatened. Votes: 0

It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened. Votes: 0

Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret the First Amendment as a prohibition against religious activity on public property. Votes: 0

Two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had none to hear that which could reduce their anger. Votes: 0

The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by saying something it believes is true, but by attacking it. Votes: 0

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard. Votes: 0

I don't feel threatened. You can live your life being scared of losing someone and, at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you and that's it. Votes: 0

The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger. Votes: 0

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every woman knows that any man engaging in street harassment can switch to anger very quickly and that anger goes to rage and their rage is their masculinity being threatened. We're scared for good reason. Votes: 0

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field. Votes: 0

Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile. Votes: 0

The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing. Votes: 0

I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement. Votes: 0

I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains. Votes: 0