Best Threatens Lines
201 Threatens quotes by 181 unique authors
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[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own.…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. ...…
— C.S. Lewis
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any…
— Stanislav Grof
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If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be…
— Garrett Hardin
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
— Ernest Istook
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
— Karl Kraus
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People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
— Bill Laswell
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I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory…
— Clara Schumann
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I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like…
— Leon Trotsky
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This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology…
— Don DeLillo
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Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling…
— Julie Andrews
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The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and…
— Tom Robbins
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If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
— George Carlin
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live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the…
— Jeanette Winterson
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An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely,…
— Jeremy Narby
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If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.…
— Maya Angelou
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Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands…
— Josef Pieper
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Don’t worry, Chris. The day that Sony PlayStation attacks the world and threatens to destroy it, we’ll give you a call. (Katra)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you…
— John Howard Griffin
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Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get…
— Steig Larsson
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