Quotes about threat
Robin Hobb - Fool's Quest
What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible.... Be very chary of revealing your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings.
Christina Engela - Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire
The religious right sees every group trying to achieve equality with them as a threat, because if they become equal to them, THEY won't be able to abuse their human rights anymore. Giving other people equality WITH THEM, in their minds takes something away from THEM - POWER - and that TERRIFIES them. It scares them shitless.
Herman Melville - The Whale
At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
Robert Fanney -
You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire threat. Yet, in the face of evil, to sit silent is an even greater evil. Complacency is ever the enabler of darkest deeds;
Lora Leigh - Lawe's Justice
Don't go there Rule" Lawe warned him softly. " I don't think your horoscope declared today to be a good day to die.
Stephen W. Porges - and Self-regulat
A child's (or an adult's) nervous system may detect danger or a threat to life when the child enters a new environment or meets a strange person. Cognitively, there is no reason for them to be frightened. But often, even if they understand this, their bodies betray them. Sometimes this betrayal is private; only they are aware that their hearts are beating fast and contracting with such force that they start to sway. For others, the responses are more overt. They may tremble. Their faces may flus
S.R. Crawford - No Secrets: Remastered
Don’t you just love meeting new people in new places? It means I can be whoever I want to be. And guess what, sweet’eart? Today…I choose to be your worst nightmare.
Dennis Sharpe - First Boy
This guy sounds like all the bad guys from the last ten years of murder movies all rolled into one. Like he might be the worst of those books you have there. If he was real, and really like that, then I should arrest him, right?” Matthew asked, hoping he could show the boy that he would protect him, and he could tell him the truth now.“No, Deputy. Because he is real, and he is really like that, and you should run.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
The pain of the narcissist is that, to him, everything is really a threat. What doesn't surrender in reverence is blasphemous to a high opinion of oneself - the burden of self-importance. The narcissist reconstructs his own law of gravity which states that all things and all creatures must adhere to his personal satisfaction, but when they do not, the pain is far more intense than it is for one who is free from the clamors of 'I'.
Robert Vanleeuwen -
Sometimes integrity is seen as a threat by those who desire control.
Steven Magee -
Someone needs to put a muzzle on President Trump sooner rather than later.
Ruta Sepetys - Salt to the Sea
The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.
Christina Engela - Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul
Irony: When those who call others a 'threat to Christianity' reject the crucial tenets of their own faith themselves.
M.F. Moonzajer -
The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness.
Sunday Adelaja -
If you do not have any problems, it means you have stopped being of interest to the devil; you are not dangerous to him
Veronica Roth - Four: A Divergent Story Collection
But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.
Veronica Roth -
If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.
Veronica Roth - Four: A Divergent Story Collection
I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I've experienced has left a visible mark; sometimes, without a way to prove it to myself. I began to doubt that I had lied through it at all, with the memories becoming hazy over time. I want to have some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don't disappear forever- I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.
Richie Norton - and Live without Regret
It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Chessmen of Mars
What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm."Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas reminded him."I am safe," retorted I-Gos, "for I am not a brave and popular son of the jeddak of Manator.
Rachel Carson - The Sea Around Us
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
Tahir Shah - House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
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.
Tahir Shah - House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life.
Noël Coward - Design for Living
Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.
Faith Erin Hicks - The Stone Heart
You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will it be?
Stephane Nappo -
Cyber-confidence is crucial for finance.Consistency between security and threat is a key factor in Reputation and Customer Trust.
Thomm Quackenbush - #2)
If you knew the mercy I am showing by not dismembering you where you stand for getting in my way, you would not stop thanking me.
Michael Bassey Johnson - Master of Maxims
Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen.
Cassandra Kemper - The Madder Woman
I’m a threat to anything that hurts Wonderland, including indifference.
C.G. Faulkner - Unreconstructed
It looks like you’ll be dying in Hellfire after all, Captain!” Slaughter shouted. “Just like your family in that Georgia shack did. Ha! Oh yes, I heard their screams inside! It was music to my ears!” Tom shouted back across the flames. “Whether you die by my hands today or not, you’ll be the one in Hell, with your twin Lucifer, you MURDERING BASTARD!
Dennis Sharpe - Distant Thunder
You have two choices, sweetheart. Answer my questions, or get a monster new facial piercing.
Gary D. Schmidt - The Wednesday Wars
When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you" - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for his bar mitzvah should be thinking.When 1:55 came and the other half of the class left, Meryl Lee whispered, "If she gives you one after we leave, I'm going to do Number 408 to you." I didn't remember what Number 408 was, but it was probably pretty close to what Danny Hupfer had promised.Even Mai Th
Paul Russell - The Coming Storm
Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.
Max Brooks - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.
Patricia Briggs - Cry Wolf
New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.
Gracia Hunter -
The old myth is true. We see our environment as a mirror to our self-image. If we think we are weak, everybody will appear like a threat. If we think we are strong, we will try to help everyone.
Bilal Bashir Magry -
With each passing day, it became more and more convinced that the greatest threat to Kashmair's Freedom struggle is Hurriyatization
Shaun Hick - The Ghost And Its Shadow
Then come. Let me send you to see if you have lived your life serving a deity or a dream.
A.D. Posey -
Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat.
OMOSOHWOFA CASEY -
According to H.G. Wells, you either adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative. It is not necessary to change, after all survival is not mandatoryThis generation might seem arrogant to the older generation due to some reasons. The older generation believes an older person or someone of higher authority is always right and being sceptical is an insult, lolOur generation is full of people who are so skeptical, they wanna know why this is this and that is that, they don't just
Neal Shusterman - Red Rider's Hood
There are worse things than being robbed..." I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten my grandmother. "...worse things than dyin' even. You be a good boy, Little Red, and maybe you'll get to live awhile. Maybe you'll get to die in your own natural time.
Michael Grant - Plague
Hey, Sam,” Drake shouted. “I thought you’d like to know this isn’t my whole army.”Sam didn’t doubt it.“Your girl Brianna tried to stop us.” Drake waved a bowie knife in the air. “I took this from her. I whipped her, Sam.” He snapped his whip hand. The crack was like a pistol shot. “I broke her legs so she couldn’t run. Then . . .”Dekka was halfway over the side, ready to swim ashore. Jack grabbed her and held her.“Let me go!” Dekka yelled.“Hold her,” Sam ordered Jack. “Don’t be stupid, Dekka. He
Cornell Woolrich - Angels of Darkness
It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky like a hostile eye, like an evil spying eye.("For The Rest Of Her Life")
Dan Abnett - Xenos
But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.
Gena Showalter -
One day,” Dane snarled, “I’m going to put your nuts in a grinder and make a testicle salad sandwich.
Dennis Sharpe - Wednesday
You know where I’m going to be, and you’ll know where I’ve been every step of my way to get there. You’ve made a hobby out of taking things away from me… a lot of them I never even knew to miss, but I know now. I know what you just took, and there’s no way you’re taking anything else from me. It’s time for me to start taking from you,” Wednesday said with a confidence in her voice that even she noticed and was proud to hear.“I thought you said you weren’t running from me anymore,” Klein said wit
Christina Engela - All That Remains
The religious right sees every group trying to achieve equality with them as a threat, because obviously if they become equal to them, THEY won't be able to abuse their human rights anymore.
Tom Hayes -
Commoditization is the enemy of meaning. In ages dominated by the forces of commoditization, individuals pay the price with devalued lives. by contrast, unique skills requiring mastery and expertise, like the skills of a brain surgeon, are safe from the threat of commoditization.
Jim Corbett - The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
It was as though the man-eater - for no other leopard would have killed the goat and laid it on the track- had said, 'Here, if you want your goat so badly, take it; and as it is now dark and you have a long way to go, we will see which of you lives to reach the village.
Lisa Kleypas - Devil in Winter
If my wife finds comfort in trite Gispy homilies, I have no objection to your offering them. However, if you ever kiss her again, no matter how platonic the fashion, I'll make a eunuch of you.
Eric Mrozek - Destruction
I sense that you are nearby, son and daughter of the Almari bloodline. I will soon come for you both.
Lia Habel - Departed
No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.
Kim Harrison - A Fistful of Charms
You've never been the safe, nice girl next door, despite everything you do to be that person. That's why you joined the I.S., and even there you didn't fit in, because, knowing it or not, you were a possible threat to everyone around you. People sense it on some level. I see it all the time. The dangerous are attracted by the lure of an equal, and the weak are afraid. Then they avoid you, or go out of their way to make your life miserable so you'll leave and they can continue deluding themselves
Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom
The worst threat to man is man himself
Angelica Hopes -
Security means the state of being free from danger or threat. Danger means the possibility of suffering harm or injury. The possibility of something unwelcome or unpleasant happening.There are times I have to stress as I express the correct, precise, real and honest definitions; so that the deceptive, politically motivated folks who destructively branded me as “threat to danger” would realise their double denial duplicity, dishonesty and hypocrisy.Have you at least questioned the personal motive
Clifford Cohen -
Just because something is ubiquitous does not mean that it is innocuous.
Carrie Jones - Captivate
How does that put me in danger?” Nick asks. It’s the first question he’s asked the entire time. Devyn, however, has been Mr. Nonstop Wondering Question Guy.“Because . . .” I don’t know how to say it, struggle for the words. “Because you and I are a thing and you’re a threat.”“You better believe I’m a threat,” Nick growls. The entire car seems to shake with his energy. Little hairs on my arm lift and vibrate.“He’s going macho again,” Dev says, totally nonchalantly, while he unlocks the door.“He’s
Rainbow Rowell - Fangirl
That's different," Levi smiled at her warmly. "Ypu don't rock that Little Red Riding Hood vibe. You're scary." Reagan grinned like the Big Bad Wolf.
Darren Shan - A Living Nightmare
I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.
Samantha Young - Blood Will Tell
...And you, you better run because i'm going to destroy you for what you've taken from me.
William Shakespeare - Henry V
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.
Rupert Murdoch -
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips - It Had to Be You
The door closed behind her (Phoebe), and the two men regarded each other for a moment. Viktor spoke first. "I must have your promise, Coach, that you won't hurt her." Dan: "I won't." Viktor: "You spoke a little too quickly for my taste. I don't quite believe you." Dan: "I'm a man of my word, and I promise I won't hurt her." He flexed his hands. "When I murder her, I'll do it real quick so she won't feel a thing." Viktor sighed. "That's exactly what I was afraid of.
Carl Cohen -
Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.
Abhishek Ratna - No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
Human beings are wired to be more reactive to threats than to rewards.
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Talc: You have been found guilty of misleading and perverting the young. I decree that you be hung by your underdeveloped testicles until dead. ZORRO
Aniruddha Sastikar -
Nuclear Weapons aren't much of a threat, today; compared to Families of the world, going Nuclear.
Cedric Nye - The Road to Hell is Paved With Zombies
I promise not to hurt you, unless you try to take my shit. Then I'll twist your head off and hide it in a bush somewhere.
David Hewson - Macbeth
In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.
James S.A. Corey - Gods of Risk
You’re a tough guy, but I’m a nightmare wrapped in the apocalypse.