Best Threaten Lines
317 Threaten quotes by 276 unique authors
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I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
— Robin Hobb
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We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into…
— Robin Hobb
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There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within…
— Peer Steinbruck
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Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to…
— George Orwell
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While it is tempting to believe that you are the victim of certain people or forces beyond your control, A Course in Miracles teaches you…
— Marianne Williamson
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But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world,…
— Fidel Castro
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Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives.…
— Parker J. Palmer
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The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm…
— Muhammad Ali
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and…
— Charles Dickens
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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life…
— June Jordan
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One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into…
— Lincoln Steffens
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The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with…
— Igor Stravinsky
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want…
— Alan Bennett
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I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction.…
— George Voinovich
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Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on…
— Ashraf Ghani
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Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us…
— John Green
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During World War II, the Nazis put their victims into gas chambers and then incinerated them in ovens. While the Nazis took their victims to…
— David Krieger
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It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security,…
— Smiley Blanton
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In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence…
— Willard Gaylin
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Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail…
— Evan Bayh
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In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.
— Sandy Berger
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Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk…
— Peter Diamandis
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We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of…
— Robert Hayden
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