The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
People get so frustrated with me, so much so that they've threatened me, they've threatened my family and it just cannot go… — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
I came up with an idea to turn the cliché inside out: instead of humans threatened by zombies, what if a sympathetic… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted,… — John Linder Copy Share Image
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth — John Ford Copy Share Image
“Henceforth, whenever we are threatened with being cast adrift upon love’s transcendent, golden shore, I want you to slap my face.” — Amanda Quick Copy Share Image
Just able barely to mount a horse and ride about a little in the spring of 1866, my life was threatened daily,… — Jesse James Copy Share Image
Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people.… — Hollis Stacy Copy Share Image
America has had to deal with eccentric dictators in the past: Idi Amin, Muammar Qaddafi, Ming the Merciless... but now the security… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Every major industry was once a growth industry. But some that are now riding a wave of growth enthusiasm are very much… — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the… — Laurence Binyon Copy Share Image
Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the… — Charles Taze Russell Copy Share Image
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
I have a daughter who, when younger, possessed no barrier between her emotional self and the outside world. Her emotional insides spilled… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Some children are threatened with loss of privileges such as money, cell phones, cars or even eviction from home if they do… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
This country to-day [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
“If you even suggest to my crew that you've threatened your way aboard my lady, I'll rip out your spine." "That's unbearably… — Meljean Brooks Copy Share Image
She just threatened to throw the next man who shoots at you out the window. Megan is awake. She offered to help.… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
“What could you do, when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much?” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
New Jersey was threatened like no other region in this country and what we did was we took action within the constitution… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior. — Caitlin Stasey Copy Share Image
Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image