Threatening Quotes

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Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're… — Candice Bergen
I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle. — Steve Carell
Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book. — Paulo Coelho
All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300… — Gaylord Nelson
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control. — Nicolas Chamfort
America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the… — Malcolm X
Even talking about change can be threatening to entrenched interests...Careers in the Pentagon, the board room, or the halls of Congress are not advanced by… — Mac Thornberry
Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the… — Walter Lippmann
Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact,… — Sean Stephenson
...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at… — Alexander Hamilton
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected… — Etty Hillesum
Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of… — Charles W. Socarides
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us — Barack Obama
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. — Craig Raine
Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic front. I would… — Vladimir Putin
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them… — Peter Singer
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,… — Wendell Berry
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,… — Wendell Berry
Tempus would be protected, better shielded from whatever the Stepson thought threatening, if love could heal and save. — Janet Morris

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