Best Threatens Sayings
201 Threatens quotes by 181 unique authors
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The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and…
— Felix Klein
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While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes…
— Robert Falcon Scott
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We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need…
— Noah Feldman
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Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral…
— Robert M. Price
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The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.
— Harold Innis
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The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through his…
— Cleanth Brooks
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Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow…
— Alfie Kohn
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But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and…
— Zach Wamp
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Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.
— Faraaz Kazi
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We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
— John Lancaster Spalding
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America is sinking under the crushing weight of the ever-expanding regulatory state. This burden threatens to disrupt our recovery, hamper long-term growth, undermine our global…
— Tom J. Donohue
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The most devastating indictment of the president's proposal is that it threatens to destroy virtually everything about American health care that's worth preserving. Under the…
— William Kristol
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We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.
— Ban Ki-moon
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The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.
— Ruben Hinojosa
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AIDS destroys families, decimates communities and, particularly in the poorest areas of the world, threatens to destabilize the social, cultural, and economic fabric of entire…
— David Saperstein
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My activities, for which I gratefully accept this Award, are today what they have been for over thirty-five years and will be for the rest…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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I have sacrificed my freedom and risked my life in order to expose the danger of nuclear weapons which threatens this whole region. I acted…
— Mordechai Vanunu
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But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even…
— Unknown Author
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This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say,…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades as not only…
— Lane Evans
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I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe…
— Heather McHugh
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It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them…
— Peter Mayle
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Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger…
— Kano Jigoro
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