Best Threatened Quotes
411 Threatened quotes by 362 unique authors
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
— David McCullough
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One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the…
— David Lange
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The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve…
— Andre Michel Lwoff
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The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.
— Helen Wills
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... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in…
— Albert Einstein
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What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés, the same jagged…
— Richard Bach
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Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take notice or we…
— Roger Tory Peterson
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As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a…
— Carl Sagan
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Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several…
— James Hansen
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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…
— Carl Cohen
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In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife…
— Maya Angelou
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More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial…
— John W. Gardner
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Our American heritage is threatened as much by our own indifference as it is by the most unscrupulous office or by the most powerful foreign…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it
— Simon Jenkins
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The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is…
— Hal Borland
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Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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One day, through my prayers, an overwhelming amount of love started flowing into me, filling up the dark hole that threatened to consume me. I…
— Julia Hill
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Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the…
— Ronald Reagan
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The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive…
— James Madison
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Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
— William S. Burroughs
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America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much more of the…
— Charles Eisenstein
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It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.
— Adam Levine
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