90 Quotes About Threat

Threats are typically intended to scare us into submission, but sometimes it’s important to laugh at them. Be prepared for the next threat by reading the funny quotes about threats below.

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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. Rachel Carson
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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once more the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring life's morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins life's joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art's nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. This is real religion. This is real worship . Robert G. Ingersoll
Wise is the one who flavors the future with some...
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Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash. Curtis Tyrone Jones
I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a...
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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
In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated...
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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. Tahir Shah
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We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the existentialist threat of meaninglessness away. We believe because we crave to be seen, to be known, to be understood. We believe because that is the only thing we can do. If there is no one to judge us - to tell us that we are good, and that if we are bad, we can be redeemed - why bother living at all? Why bother being good at all? If there is no one to look after us, and we are truly alone in this universe, what purpose do we have? We have nothing but the present moment, and only temporariness. Tarun Betala
You have two things of value: your monastery and your...
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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? Faith Erin Hicks
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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. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value their own secrets far above those of others. A scullery maid may be willing to betray a prince before allowing the name of her secret lover to be told. . Robin Hobb
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Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary. Unknown
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We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77) Sigmund Freud
Don't go there Rule
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Don't go there Rule" Lawe warned him softly. " I don't think your horoscope declared today to be a good day to die. Lora Leigh
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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'. Criss Jami
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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. . Dennis Sharpe
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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 flush, or perspiration may pour from their hands and forehead. Still others may become pale and dizzy and feel precipitously faint. Stephen W. Porges
Don’t you just love meeting new people in new places?...
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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. S.R. Crawford
Sometimes integrity is seen as a threat by those who...
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Sometimes integrity is seen as a threat by those who desire control. Robert Vanleeuwen
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Dr. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his patients and the human dramas they confront. In his book Letters to a Young Doctor, he said that most young people seem to be protected for a time by an imaginary membrane that shields them from horror. They walk in it every day but are hardly aware of its presence. As the immune system protects the human body from the unseen threat of harmful bacteria, so this mythical membrane guards them from life-threatening situations. Not every young person has this protection, of course, because children do die of cancer, congenital heart problems, and other disorders. But most of them are shielded–and don’t realize it. Then, as years roll by, one day it happens. Without warning, the membrane tears, and horror seeps into a person’s life or into the life of a loved one. It is at this moment that an unexpected theological crisis presents itself. James C. Dobson
Someone needs to put a muzzle on President Trump sooner...
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Someone needs to put a muzzle on President Trump sooner rather than later. Steven Magee
The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly...
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The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck. Ruta Sepetys
In calm waters you still find sharks.
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In calm waters you still find sharks. Matshona Dhliwayo
Irony: When those who call others a 'threat to Christianity'...
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Irony: When those who call others a 'threat to Christianity' reject the crucial tenets of their own faith themselves. Christina Engela
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The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness. M.F. Moonzajer
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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. Herman Melville
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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; Robert Fanney
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You won't become what you want to be, else you become what you fear to be. Michael Bassey Johnson
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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. Christina Engela
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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. . Robin Hobb
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Depths of Friendship...under fathoms deepof dark and bitter coldan eerie oscillationreverberated brash and bold... Muse
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Listen and listen good, shitbrain. If you ever touch someone I love again, I will shove this cross down your throat and watch you choke on it. You want to know why a Prince of Hell wanted me so bad? Now you do. I’m not a nice girl. I’m a Seer. It is my job to save the people of the world from vultures like you. Now you take that back to whoever your boss is and let him come find me, if he’s stupid enough. I’ll bury you all if I have to. Kyoko M.
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I have a message for your daughter, ” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool wind plays with her hair, it may be my shadow passing by.” And with this terrible threat he faced forward and the procession started once more. In less than a minute they were gone. In her shady room Arbell Swan-Neck stood white and cold as alabaster. Paul Hoffman
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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. Edgar Rice Burroughs
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When you are in a fix, often the fix is in you. Ashok Kallarakkal
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But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost. Veronica Roth
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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
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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. That is what this tattoo will be, for me: a scar. And it seems fitting that it should document the worst memory of pain I have. Veronica Roth
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If you do not have any problems, it means you have stopped being of interest to the devil; you are not dangerous to him Sunday Adelaja
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If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies. Haruki Murakami
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It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat. Richie Norton
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Cyber-confidence is crucial for finance. Consistency between security and threat is a key factor in Reputation and Customer Trust. Stephane Nappo
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Keep negative people long meters away from you; their presence is a threat to your high self-esteem! Job, the man of God kept his wife afar before he could make it again! Israelmore Ayivor
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Then come. Let me send you to see if you have lived your life serving a deity or a dream. Shaun Hick
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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. Neal Shusterman
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Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat. A.D. Posey
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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") Cornell Woolrich
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Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there. Michael Bassey Johnson
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A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten Soke Behzad Ahmadi
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But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority. Dan Abnett
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One day, ” Dane snarled, “I’m going to put your nuts in a grinder and make a testicle salad sandwich. Gena Showalter
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Denying the facts is what enables people to hate and to persecute marginalized and threatened minority groups. Labeling the advocacy, educational and informational initiatives of these persecuted minority groups dismissively as 'propaganda for the gay agenda' undermines, belittles and trivializes the cause of those whose right to exist is under threat. Christina Engela
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I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go . John Stuart Mill
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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 mandatory This 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, lol Our generation is full of people who are so skeptical, they wanna know why this is this and that is that, they don't just hear and believe, they hear, hear from other sides, look at it critically and express their opinions based on their conviction. This generation is full of people who are somewhat confident cos they study, they observe and due to these, they are equipped with better information and like you know, knowledge is power. You know right from wrong, you know truth from lies. When you are with those in authority and have this knowledge, an ignorant person of higher authority would be scared of you, feel threatened and might resort to maltreating and frustrating you, defaming your character etc The older generation and the younger generation are usually having misunderstanding because the older generation are being deceived by pride, the younger generation due to their advanced education do not wanna give merit to whom it isn't due. While the older generation postulates that respect is not earned but compulsory for them to be accorded, the younger generation believes respect must be earned. lol The older generation rules by fiction but the younger generation lives by facts. The older generation uses age to oppress, the younger generation uses their knowledge to defend. The older generation believes they can never be wrong, the younger generation wants fair hearing, demands for it, if denied, they take it by force due to the confidence they've built around themselves. The older generation is unfair to the younger generation, there was once a time they were listened to without doubts and opposition, this is the time for the younger generation to be listened to due to advancement in education and exposure. The younger generation, due to their quest for higher knowledge through research, etc, they have realized the consequences of being ignorant and with their power of conviction, they are not letting the older generation have their autocratic ways affect them. To the younger generation, one should be able to prove whatever he says, no more latent heresies and this is what the older generation don't wanna hear of. The older generation wants to continue enslaving the younger generation but the younger generation is more equipped than the older generation and as such, not letting that happen. Technology advances every day, the younger generation are ever ready to adapt to the changes but the older generation is not ready for that, they wanna remain stagnant and still have the say of the day. Like George Bernard Shaw once said, the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man . OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
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Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud. DaShanne Stokes
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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 wants us to come rushing at him.”“ I can beat him, ” Jack said. “Dekka and me together, we can kill him.” Sam registered the fact that Jack was actually making a physical threat. He didn’t remember ever hearing that kind of thing from Jack. But Dekka was Sam’s greater concern.“ I’m going to kill him, ” Dekka said in a voice so deep in her throat she sounded like an animal. “I’ll kill him. I’ll kill him.” Then she shouted, “I’m going to kill you, Drake. I’m going to kill you! ” Drake grinned. “I think she liked it. She was screaming, but she liked it.”“ He’s lying, ” Toto said.“ Who?” Sam snapped.“ Him.” He pointed at Drake. “He hasn’t killed that girl or hurt her.” Dekka relaxed and Sam and Jack let go of her.“ Truth-teller Toto, ” Sam whispered. “He can tell when people are lying.”“ I just decided I like you, ” Dekka said to Toto. “You might be useful.” Toto frowned. “It’s true: you just decided you like me. Michael Grant
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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. Carl Cohen
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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. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Enemies may unite to eliminate a common threat, but never without a wary eye fixed on their ally. Richelle E. Goodrich
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I sense that you are nearby, son and daughter of the Almari bloodline. I will soon come for you both. Eric Mrozek
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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. Lisa Kleypas
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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. Jim Corbett
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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. Tom Hayes
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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 with a laugh in his voice. Her face was red, and she felt like she was on fire. She managed, summoning all her will, to keep herself from screaming and instead, keep an even and icy voice. “I’m not, you piece of shit. Now, I’m running at you. Dennis Sharpe
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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. Christina Engela
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No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it. Lia Habel
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The worst threat to man is man himself Bangambiki Habyarimana
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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 motives and faulty malicious and intentional misjudgment or at least be honestly curious to discern the motive of a cunning person who warns you against another as a danger, a threat or a risk to life or security? Did the political harridan mean political threat to her political coalition or a danger to reveal the harridan's creative deception matched with her political ambitious power links? ~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy . Angelica Hopes
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Just because something is ubiquitous does not mean that it is innocuous. Clifford Cohen
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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 always going macho, ” Is adds. “It must be the wolf thing.”“ I am not going macho. I am always macho, ” Nick says, and for a moment the tension ratchets down, but then his face muscles become rigid again. . Carrie Jones
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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. Rainbow Rowell
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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 that they're safe. (..) You got off on the risk. . Kim Harrison
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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. Darren Shan
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...And you, you better run because i'm going to destroy you for what you've taken from me. Samantha Young
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His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it. William Shakespeare
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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! C.G. Faulkner
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You have two choices, sweetheart. Answer my questions, or get a monster new facial piercing. Dennis Sharpe
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Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen. Michael Bassey Johnson
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I’m a threat to anything that hurts Wonderland, including indifference. Cassandra Kemper
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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. Gracia Hunter
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With each passing day, it became more and more convinced that the greatest threat to Kashmair's Freedom struggle is Hurriyatization Bilal Bashir Magry
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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. Thomm Quackenbush
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New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father. Patricia Briggs
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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. Paul Russell
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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 Thi looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, "I know your home." Which sounded pretty ominous. Gary D. Schmidt
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What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment. Max Brooks
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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. Cedric Nye
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Human beings are wired to be more reactive to threats than to rewards. Abhishek Ratna
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Nuclear Weapons aren't much of a threat, today; compared to Families of the world, going Nuclear. Aniruddha Sastikar
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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 John Kennedy Toole
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In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. David Hewson
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You’re a tough guy, but I’m a nightmare wrapped in the apocalypse. James S.A. Corey