Threatened Quotes - Page 20

• I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

  Barry McGuigan

  People, Together, Watches

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each business is a victim of Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than the ability to exploit it. Digital Darwinism does not discriminate. Every business is threatened.

  Brian Solis

  Technology, Doe, Digital

  Brian Solis (2014). “The Brian Solis Digital Reader”, p.378, John Wiley & Sons

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• I understand, probably more than anyone, what a threat Iraq was and the people that threatened Iraq was. I was beneath the towers on September 11th when they fell. And I -- again, I just -- I want to thank the President for the honor in allowing me to go there, because I lost 23 people. I wear this memorial band for the 23 I lost.

  Bernard Kerik

  Iraq, People, Memorial

  "Cnn Live Event/Special" with Soledad O'brien, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2003.

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• But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Men, Ghost, Circumstances

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• I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

  Brad Meltzer

  Mother, Father, Book

  "Workouts inspire novelist: 'No better place to plot the death of a character'". Interview with David Raterman, www.sun-sentinel.com. February 11, 2013.

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• The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Environmental, Unhappy

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• We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the world if those weapons are one day to be eliminated. We will not contemplate any circumstance in which their possession or threatened use is justified. We reject the secrecy and hypocrisy which surrounds the continuing refinement of the technology.

  David Lange

  Technology, Numbers, Hypocrisy

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard that the Arabs feel their neutrality and nationalism are threatened ... while at the same time trying to hasten the inevitable Arab acceptance of the permanence of Israel ... We must ... seek a permanent settlement among Arabs and Israelis based not on an armed truce but on mutual self-interest.

  John F. Kennedy

  Acceptance, Self, Israel

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• Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Diversity, Tasks, Biology

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• If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly that civilized mankind finds itself at present in grave danger. In the totalitarian states it is the rulers themselves who strive actually to destroy that spirit of humanity. In less threatened parts it is nationalism and intolerance, as well as the oppression of the individuals by economic means, which threaten to choke these most precious traditions.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Mean, Eye

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.

  Martin Seligman

  Happiness, Pain, People

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.42, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Running, Military

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• They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.

  David McCullough

  Death, Men, Determined

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• By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.

  Bhagat Singh

  War, Mean, Order

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.

  Kate Chopin

  Summer, Mother, Husband

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.19

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• Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

  Stephen Covey

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Excellence

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• People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, White, People

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• The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve biological problems. This will come in a few centuries. For the time being, the biologist has to face such concepts as orienting forces or morphogenetic fields. Owing to the scarcity of chemical data and to the complexity of life, and despite the progresses of biochemistry, the biologist is still threatened with vertigo.

  Andre Michel Lwoff

  Knowledge, Science, Cells

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• The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.

  Helen Wills

  Rain, Finals, Wimbledon

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• In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Time, Art

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• Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.

  Carl Cohen

  Government, Bored, People

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• Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.

  James Hansen

  Stress, Rain, Ocean

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• More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Nature, Technology, Men

  "No Easy Victories". Book by John William Gardner, ed. Helen Rowan, Harper & Row, p. 57, 1968.

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• Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take notice or we might find our own survival threatened.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Health, Science, Water

  "Penguins". Book by Martin Rees (p. 160), March 1, 2009.

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• As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a very plausible case can be made that our civilization is fundamentally threatened by the lack of adequate fertility control. Exponential increases of population will dominate any arithmetic increases, even those brought about by heroic technological initiatives, in the availability of food and resources, as Malthus long ago realized.

  Carl Sagan

  Cancer, Science, Thinking

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