Best Threaten Thoughts
317 Threaten quotes by 276 unique authors
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... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend…
— Rene Dubos
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Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of…
— J D Hayworth
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The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.
— Dennis Kucinich
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There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the…
— Frank B. Kellogg
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That Iran is willing to threaten Israel is wrong[. . . .] We pose no threat and if we are conducting nuclear research and development…
— Ali Larijani
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For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure…
— Henry Paulson
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Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.
— Stephen Harper
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If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?
— Anna Friel
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To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures,…
— Walt Whitman
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In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children…
— June Jordan
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Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow…
— William Shakespeare
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Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
— Thomas Sowell
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The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many…
— R. D. Laing
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Fantasy stories open our eyes to an unseen world and train our minds to see beyond the visible. In the New Testament context, this is…
— Bryan Davis
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If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much,…
— Thomas Aquinas
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It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them.…
— Dave Barry
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Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and…
— Courtney Milan
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In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which…
— S. J. Perelman
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If we continue to show young girls that they are being compared to other girls, we’re doing ourselves a huge disservice as a society. I…
— Taylor Swift
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The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory;…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most…
— William J. Clinton
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I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that…
— Chaka Khan
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