Threatened Quotes - Page 10

• I threw a strop one day and threatened to walk to Budleigh Salterton.

  Mark Lewisohn

  One Day, Walks

  Mark Lewisohn (2013). “Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years”, p.132, Crown Archetype

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• Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.

  Frank Herbert

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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• Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that one day I would send him a big bill for what we did. But, seriously, Iran is pursuing a dual strategy in Iraq. On the one hand, the Iranians, after decades of hostility, are now interested in good relations. On the other hand, they want to keep the country weak and dominate the region.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Country, Hands, Iran

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome.

  Edward Gibbon

  Rome, Europe, Curiosity

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”

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• Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

  Imogen Poots

  Thinking, Sometimes, Crushed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the most honest responses to the movies you get to watch are in houses and people's most private spaces, like the bedroom or in your own intimate space. I think that's where you feel safest, so when you're threatened in the place you feel safest, it makes for the scariest situations.

  Jason Blum

  Thinking, Space, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique."

  Betty Friedan

  Editors, Trying, Magazines

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• As a human being with notoriety and a big mouth, I've felt most threatened during the first Bush Administration. Whenever there's a Bush in the White House, many people die, and the rest of us are threatened. I just didn't think it would happen quite so quickly. The so-called USA Patriot Act, and the announcement of trying people in military tribunals if Bush or Rumsfeld's or Ashcroft's people think they somehow qualify as terrorists, basically, this is McCarthyism run amok.

  Jello Biafra

  Running, Military, Thinking

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by

  Dolly Parton

  Beautiful, Might, Matter

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• No one seems to have learned, or can remember, the magic words that calm people when they are frightened or threatened: "I'm sorry; I didn't see you; are you all right?" The inability to speak these words, I observe, goes right along with a propensity for mindless insults.

  Carol Tavris

  Sorry, People, Magic

  Carol Tavris (1989). “Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• All religions, at one point or another in their evolution tried to proclaim their single, inerrant consistency. All religions even the most liberal, were tempted by the reactionary impulse to freeze faith in place. Because as Jesus teaches, it's easy to be threatened by the reality of the complicated, messy, syncretic, God-bearing truth that becomes incarnate among us and makes things new. We'd rather have a dead religion than a living God

  Sarah Miles

  Jesus, Reality, Consistency

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• Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Rome

  "John Dominic Crossan's 'blasphemous' portrait of Jesus". Interview with John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2011.

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• What's important to do is we must deal frontally with this threat of radical Islamists, especially from ISIS. This is the most sophisticated terror group that has ever threatened the world or the United States of America.

  Marco Rubio

  Isis, America, Important

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• New Jersey was threatened like no other region in this country and what we did was we took action within the constitution to make sure that law enforcement had all the information they needed.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Law, Enforcement

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• If we want to destroy ISIS,if we expect to do this on our own, we will fail but if we do it in unison with people who are also are at risk and threatened by Islamic Radical terrorism, we'll be far more successful.

  Jeb Bush

  Islamic, Successful, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• When I was young, we were quite strongly discouraged from listening to pop music. It was an uncomfortable thing, pop music; I think my parents felt threatened by it. They were always happy when they were listening to Mozart, so if your parents are happy, then you're happy.

  William Orbit

  Thinking, Parent, Listening

  Interview with Sarah Williams, www.femalefirst.co.uk. February 4, 2006.

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• I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against.

  Ben Stein

  Beautiful, People, Tree

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide...And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Suicide, Stupid, People

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• Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of Moses and Isaiah and Luke and Paul.

  William Henry Houghton

  Names, People, Moses

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• I began my addiction when I was 12 years old. By the time 40, 45 years later, when it, you know, it threatened my life and maimed me in terms of my voice, I was so addicted that I was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Years, Voice, Addiction

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• People living on atolls like Tuvalu are among the world's most threatened populations.

  Enele Sopoaga

  People, World, Population

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the Bahamas in July. What happened to the good old days when a guy would just saw you in half?

  Chelsea Handler

  Islands, July, Guy

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• Solidarity is the fundamental idea of European cooperation. If a country feels itself to be militarily threatened and calls for soldiers, weapons and sanctions, then that's what it gets. When governments say they need money from the structural funds to stabilize their economy, that's what they get. But you can't cherry pick solidarity.

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Government, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The quota idea is a good one, but there are two problems with it. The first is clear: A quota system would also require all European countries to be prepared to take refugees. And secondly: What happens when the quota has been filled? Would we then simply tell those who are threatened, sorry but we have to send you back?

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Sorry, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It was a Russian airplane that was bombed over the Sinai Peninsula. When the Russians conduct air strikes on IS, they are doing so because they too are threatened by terror.

  Martin Schulz

  Airplane, Peninsulas, Sinai

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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