Threatened Quotes
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The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
Albert Einstein -
Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.
Bette Midler
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
Andrew Vachss -
I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
Barbara Kruger -
Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
Jasper Fforde -
We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
Chogyam Trungpa -
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
Mitch Albom -
Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do.
Calvin Klein
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Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.
Amy Poehler -
In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.
R. C. Sproul -
Every good soldier wants to live in an organized environment, secure in the knowledge that he or she will not be threatened or harassed by others, confident that his or her efforts will be recognized, and aware that the nonproductive soldier will be invited to leave. In such an environment, soldiers will be proud of their units and will demonstrate that pride with their performance and behavior.
William A. Connelly -
The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
I've always assumed from the beginning that I had relatively few contemporaries among my readership. Not that I was consciously writing for a younger audience but that what I was doing interested a younger audience, or at least threatened them less.
William Gibson -
What is wonderful to see is how incredibly affectionate and physically affectionate Nancy Reagan was, you know? She was so on her guard, she was threatened by just about everybody.
Cynthia Nixon
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We still live in a time where people feel threatened, and the Democrats have been at a disadvantage on this issue, and for them to make progress they have to address it.
Andrew Kohut -
Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same."
Diogenes -
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
Sandra Bernhard -
Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.
Mohammad Javad Zarif -
Israel is the only nation in the West that is existentially threatened.
Ari Shavit -
I suspect we can all be domesticated by love, but when love is threatened or broken, our suspicions and mistrust are confirmed. Experience has made us this way.........Because if you believe in what's promised, if you become invested, you take the risk of a broken heart.
Camilla Gibb
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Historically, moves to new ways of moral decision making depend on and occur in pockets of people of good will, who can explore with each other novel ways of relating without threatening or being threatened.
R. Edward Freeman -
I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.
Steven Spielberg -
Cats never feel threatened. They are genetically incapable of accepting that anyone could possibly dislike anything as perfect as a cat.
Kathy Young -
What man lacks most is will, constancy of will. Man works to earn his living, and when he finishes his day … He wants to sleep. He is lazy where public things are concerned. We let catastrophes come, we let them ripen. They don’t come because men want them to; they come because men want to sleep. ‘We can’t do anything about it. If it must happen, better not to know about it. Humanity has always been severely threatened. The threats are not diminishing. But one must sleep, after all. Sleep.
Etienne Decroux