Threatening Quotes
350 quotes by 320 authors
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Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called…
— Ben Bernanke
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued…
— Alan Greenspan
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It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed…
— Stephen King
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Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future,…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't…
— Nick Hornby
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Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society,…
— Joseph Campbell
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They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didnt have terrorists threatening…
— Conrad Burns
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Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits just…
— Augusten Burroughs
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There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or…
— Wilhelm Reich
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after…
— Adolf Loos
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More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and…
— Ismail Serageldin
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Peace in its real sense can never be achieved by military measures or technical fixes... It is high time for us to focus our attention…
— Hans-Peter Durr
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My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
— Yahoo Serious
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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be remarkable…
— Edmund Clowney
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I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.
— Jim Goad
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Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change—it’s threatening. I thrive…
— Yvon Chouinard
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Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek…
— Hakim Bey
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The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or…
— Dennis McKenna
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