Threatening Quotes

350 quotes by 312 authors

The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to… — Jack Zipes
If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness… — Pablo Neruda
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone. — Shannon Hale
I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you,… — Eoin Colfer
Larry is back in town...The wedding is set for October. Tammy is threatening to have me in the wedding. Some friends they are. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to… — Jeanette Winterson
I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier… — Audre Lorde
A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time… — Pema Chodron
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world… — Alan Moore
The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather… — Dean Koontz
Do you question my authority? I am the headmistress of Evernight!" It was Balthazar who answered her by casually slinging his crossbow back upon his… — Claudia Gray
Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel… — William Gibson
I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people--unidentified but no less real--are threatening life as we know… — Christopher Moore
Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their… — Thomas Moore
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"â€”"not permitted"â€”"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Damned mating heat. Lawe is threatening to join a monastery and Rule's threatening to quit. Why don't you two try to show the younger guys… — Lora Leigh
I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is… — Mary Pipher
Was it weird having a witch grandma? Scary? Was she always, like, threatening to cast spells if you were bad?" "Most of the time she… — Richelle Mead
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening,… — John Pilger
Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for… — John Piper

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