Threatened Quotes · Page 13

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that…

— Christopher Meloni

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

— Murray Gell-Mann

Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment…

— Harry Belafonte

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

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its…

— Jamais Cascio

“I tell myself not to feel sexually threatened. I am of no special interest; he could just as easily be angling for…

— Joe Dunthorne

I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take…

— John L. Casti

Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there…

— Newt Gingrich

In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings.…

— Michael Mandelbaum

After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party,…

— Asif Ali Zardari

An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest…

— Eamon de Valera

I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get…

— Aimee Mullins

If you're not comfortable with a strong woman you're not comfortable with your own feminine instincts. You're not comfortable, period. You're going…

— Madonna Ciccone

Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away…

— Donna Brazile

The most important fact of this century is not that Earth is threatened in many ways, It is that for the first…

— William E. Burrows

I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power…

— Ronald Reagan

The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and…

— Tom Morello

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…

— Pema Chodron

“But there was no gangrene or amputations like the doctors threatened, and we got a B, so I don’t see what all…

— Christopher Moore

It's ironic that the people who are suppose to be our friends are the ones we feel the most threatened by.

— Anonymous

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

— Jose Maria Aznar

I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country…

— Rosanne Cash

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

— Jonathan Sacks

“Even men who use fear as their weapon can themselves be threatened. We all have something we don’t want to lose.”

— Lindsey Davis

[Israel] is our ally and in that we've made a very strong commitment to support Israel, we will support Israel if her…

— George W. Bush

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

— Bill Laswell

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

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to…

— Ken Curtis

My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened…

— Dorothy Arzner

[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its…

— Junot Diaz

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to…

— Richard Simmons

I just dont understand why people are threatened by interracial relationships...What is there to worry about. Lets open our minds.

— Anonymous

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

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Faina Ranevskaya

Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the…

— Frederick Lenz

Let’s face it: There are people who won’t be happy when you get too blessed. There are people who feel threatened by…

— Bo Sanchez

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

— John Owen

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…

— Steven Spielberg

When we refused to be forced out of Berlin, we demonstrated to the people of Europe that with their cooperation we would…

— Harry S. Truman

In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established…

— Robert Dallek