Threat Quotes
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Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
Michel Faber
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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
Northrop Frye
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And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.
George Gilder
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Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.
Wes Jackson
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The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.
William Hague
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One of the things we're trying to do is view the China threat as not just a whole-of-government threat, but a whole-of-society threat on their end, and I think it's going to take a whole-of-society response by us.
Christopher Wray
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It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.
William Styron
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I thought we did a nice job on him. I felt we had to make Werner make tough shots, he's such a great inside-outside threat.
Bob Farrell
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We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.
Judy Reyes
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We realize it's going to be even harder to win because everyone out there wants to beat us. The way I look at it, any team can beat us and anything can happen out there, so the team that we face each week is our biggest threat. Our quest is to repeat as champions. To do that, we have to take it one game at a time and continue to work hard.
Chuck Brodsky
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I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.
Sebastian Vettel
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Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.
LL Cool J
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The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business.
Erskine Bowles
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If it's not a contract I want then I won't sign it. That's not a threat.
Roy Keane
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Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
James Hansen
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There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.
Simon Beaufoy
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Iran is an escalating threat and this seemed like a timely visit on his way to Sochi.
Brian H. Hook
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The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.
Tony Blair
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We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.
Herb Kohl
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In order to achieve it a military threat may be needed.
Javier Solana
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If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy-a fear that these possessions may be lost, stolen, or devalued. If I'm in the presence of someone of greater net worth, fame, or status, I feel inferior. If I'm in the presence of someone of lesser net worth, fame or status, I feel superior. My sense of self-worth constantly fluctu-ates. I don't have any sense of constancy, anchorage, or persistent selfhood. I am constantly trying to protect and insure my assets, properties, securities, position, or reputation.
Stephen Covey
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Freedom... refers to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.
Thomas Sowell