Threatened Quotes - Page 14

• A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.

  Jill Briscoe

  Life, Men, Quality

  Jill Briscoe (2012). “Out of the Storm and into God’s Arms: Shelter in Turbulent Times”, p.177, CLC Publications

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• But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.

  King Albert II

  Home, Sacrifice, Soil

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• Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

  Dan Lipinski

  Loss, Energy, Climate

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• If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Scary, Receiving, Reason Why

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• How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.

  Christopher Meloni

  Years, Firsts, Episodes

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• Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

  Pope John Paul II

  Hard Work, People, Evil

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• Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Rejection, Liberty

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• Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Thinking, Doe, Quitting

  "Joaquin Phoenix Interview – He talks about Quitting Acting to Focus on Music – Part 1". Interview with Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub, collider.com. February 3, 2009.

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• One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.

  Steven Pinker

  Loneliness, People, Feelings

  "Steven Pinker: the mind reader". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 1999.

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• The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, World, Secular

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• In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

  Paul Robeson

  Land, Class, Hysteria

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• In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Differences, World, Feels

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• Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

  Archie Shepp

  Ideas, Musical, Culture

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• I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

  Wilbur Smith

  Father, Holiday, Pride

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• I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

  Steven Spielberg

  Israel, Favors, Responding

  "Spielberg: Israel Entitled to Strong Response". Time Magazine Interview, www.ynetnews.com. June 12, 2005.

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• I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

  Steven Spielberg

  Israel, Machines, Favors

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• When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

  Laura Linney

  Fighting, Life Is, Urges

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Battle

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• People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

  Mitch Albom

  Mean, People, Doe

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.154, Broadway Books

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• There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

  Gloria Allred

  Strong Women, People, Problem

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• The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

  James A. Baldwin

  Men, White, Black

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.

  Elayne Boosler

  Thinking, People, Get Away

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• Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

  Barbara Boxer

  Law, Safety, Police

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• When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Strong Women, Being A Strong Woman, Trouble

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• An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

  George Chapman

  Lambs, Lions, Englishmen

  'Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany' (1654) act 1

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