Threat famous quotes

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.
-- Adam Levine

#World #Dangerous #Threat

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Threat #Invitations

Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats.
-- Amr Moussa

#Military #Disputes #Threat

A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.
-- Amy Dickinson

#Women #Promise #Threat

The threat is stronger than the execution.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch

#Stronger #Execution #Threat

Every time I went on TV I got a threat.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#Tvs #Threat

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
-- B. F. Skinner

#Punishment #People #Threat

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
-- Barack Obama

#Climate #Serious #Threat

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Clever #Injustice #Threat

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Israel #Threat #Inception

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Israel #Establishment #Threat

And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Lost #Made #Threat

The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.
-- Bell Hooks

#Men #Distinction #Threat

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu

#Military #Chance #Threat

While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.
-- Bennie Thompson

#Attention #Terrorism #Threat

Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.
-- Beth Moore

#Enemy #Tongue #Threat

Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.
-- Betty Shabazz

#Six #Seven #Threat

When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.
-- Bob Uecker

#Baseball #Mother #Threat

A good threat is worth a thousand tests.
-- Boris Beizer

#Tests #Bugs #Threat

...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.
-- Brady Udall

#Forever #Promise #Threat

The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb
-- Brother Ali

#Bombs #Harm #Threat

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives
-- Busta Rhymes

#Threat

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Promise #Literature #Threat

Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.
-- Connie Willis

#Cat #Threat

And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
-- Dana Rohrabacher

#Port #Cargo #Threat

I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.
-- David Lee Roth

#Occupation #Outrage #Threat

I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat
-- Dean Alfange

#Masters #Threat

The threat of world's end is the old threat.
-- Denise Levertov

#World #Ends #Threat

There's always a threat surrounding the things you love
-- Don McCullin

#Threat #Things You Love

The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it.
-- Donald E. Williams, Jr.

#Enemy #Causes #Threat

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Threat #Direct

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.
-- Ehud Olmert

#Israel #Kind #Threat

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.
-- Elie Wiesel

#Promise #Enemy #Threat

I have had death threats from people with fixations.
-- Enya

#People #Fixation #Threat

The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business.
-- Erskine Bowles

#Innovation #Debt #Threat

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Liberty #Bureaucracy #Threat

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.
-- George Meany

#Rights #Threat #Persistent

You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.
-- George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

#Able #Threat

When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.
-- George W. Bush

#Age #Threat #Hoping For The Best

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.
-- Gro Harlem Brundtland

#Moments #Historic #Threat

Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology
-- Gro Harlem Brundtland

#Osteoporosis #Threat #Thirds

Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.
-- Harriet Lerner

#Silence #Threat #Difficult

Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.
-- Harry Redknapp

#Wife #Threat #Journalist

The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!
-- Heather Mills

#Police #Threat #Be Careful

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism.
-- Hugo Chavez

#World #Imperialism #Threat

You will tell me what you know now," he said. "Or?" He said nothing, so I elaborated. "See, this kind of threat usually has an 'or' attached to it. Or an 'and'. 'Tell me and I'll allow you to live' or something like that.
-- Ilona Andrews

#Kind #Said #Threat

When you have a little bit more of a threat, I guess you just have a better sense of urgency, and for me that's when the best comes out in me
-- Jake Ellenberger

#Mma #Littles #Threat

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
-- James A. Baldwin

#Able #Victim #Threat

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.
-- Jamie Redknapp

#Careers #Action #Threat

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.
-- Jay Samit

#Opportunity #Management #Threat

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.
-- Jay Weatherill

#Climate #Cost #Threat

I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?
-- Jayne Ann Krentz

#Threat #Recorders

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.
-- Jerry Brown

#Civilization #Way #Threat

He felt his heart roll, exposing its underbelly. Nothing he could do about that. He was equipped to eliminate threats, protect and serve. Not to love. Never to love.
-- Jill Shalvis

#Heart #Threat #Protect

I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism.
-- Jim Ryun

#Country #Terrorism #Threat

We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.
-- Joe Klein

#War #Should #Threat

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.
-- Joel C. Rosenberg

#Evil #Risk #Threat

The biggest threat to the regime is information.
-- John Baird

#Information #Regimes #Threat

The Gospel acts without threats... it teaches us about the supreme goodwill of God towards us.
-- John Calvin

#Threat #Teach #Gods Will

The US Airforce assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security.
-- John F. Kennedy

#National Security #Threat #Ufo

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.
-- John F. Kerry

#Violence #Gender #Threat

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.
-- John Malkovich

#World #Violence #Threat

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
-- John Milius

#Civilization #People #Threat

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Advice #Pieces #Threat

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship,
-- Joseph Estrada

#Democracy #Threat #Dictatorship

When you're indestructible, then nothing is a threat really. So nothing needs to be taken that seriously.
-- Joseph Morgan

#Taken #Needs #Threat

Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.
-- Keith Olbermann

#Gay #Spinning #Threat

Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.
-- Kevin Smith

#Chicks #Threat

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
-- Lech Walesa

#Communist #Threat #Capitalist

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
-- Leon Panetta

#Als #Threat #Al Qaeda

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.
-- Lysander Spooner

#Men #Facts #Threat

To freemen, threats are impotent.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Freedom #Threat #Freeman

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.
-- Margaret Chan

#Humanity #Pandemics #Threat

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
-- Marie de France

#Bullying #Bully #Threat

No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.
-- Menachem Begin

#War #Bloodshed #Threat

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.
-- Michael Novak

#Truth #Appreciate #Threat

I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.
-- Michael Nyman

#Cities #Mexico #Threat

Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
-- Michel Faber

#Danger #Allure #Threat

Let me sum up in two words how the unhinged Left copes with the threat of global jihad: "Kill Bush!"
-- Michelle Malkin

#Two #Threat #Let Me

I eat death threats for breakfast!
-- Miriam Defensor Santiago

#Breakfast #Threat

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.
-- Mustafa Akyol

#Violence #Threat

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.
-- Northrop Frye

#Culture #United States #Threat

She frowned at him. "That sounds vaguely like a threat." "It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.
-- P. C. Cast

#Sound #Threat #Blackmail

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
-- Pat Boone

#Imagine #Threat

Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations.
-- Patrick Dixon

#Corporations #Blindness #Threat

The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.
-- Paul Ryan

#Obamacare #Threat #Medicare

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.
-- Paul Tillich

#Anxiety #Existence #Threat

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.
-- Pope Francis

#Threat

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
-- Quentin Crisp

#Mean #Enemy #Threat

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.
-- Rachel Corrie

#Threat #Please

Are you going to deliver whatever threat Avari sent you with, or are we going to have to start guessing?" Tod said. "I gotta warn you, I'm insanely good at charades.
-- Rachel Vincent

#Guessing #Said #Threat

I think we're never fully protected, but I think we need to do everything we can to stop threats to us.
-- Rand Paul

#Thinking #Needs #Threat

There's just a misconception that comes with being a dual-threat quarterback. You run first, throw second. I've proven I throw first and then run if I have to.
-- Robert Griffin III

#Running #Firsts #Threat

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
-- Rupert Murdoch

#Technology #Regimes #Threat

Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not.
-- S. R. Nathan

#Natural #Threat #Apprehension

We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.
-- Sam Nunn

#Race #Cooperation #Threat

My enemies are everywhere. And sometimes, those we least suspect turn out to be our biggest threats.
-- Sara Shepard

#Enemy #Sometimes #Threat

The threat of taking something away makes us appreciate it more.
-- Simone Elkeles

#Appreciate #Threat

I tell the truth. And I know what I'm talking about. That's why I'm a threat.
-- Snoop Dogg

#Talking #Telling The Truth #Threat

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.
-- Steig Larsson

#Hammers #Threat #Decent