Threatening Quotes - Page 7

• Interpreting gives me a chance to do what I do well and have done since I was a kid. At one time, I might have wanted to be an actor or performer, and it somehow fulfills that in a non-threatening way.

  Jack Jason

  Kids, Giving, Might

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.

  Paulo Freire

  Space, People, Historical

  "'Pedagogia do oprimido' ('Pedagogy of the Oppressed')". Book by Paulo Freire, 1970.

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• A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ignorance, Poetry, Dignity

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Addiction, Abuse

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• What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening to use nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves.

  Martin Amis

  Priorities, Defense, Nuclear

  "Einstein's Monsters". Book by Martin Amis, 1987.

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• Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a country, he thought despairingly. In Russia you always knew. If a man made a stern face he was threatening; if he was laughing uproariously, he was joking.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Sarcastic, Country

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• For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

  Bernard Holland

  Music, People, Three

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• We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Mean, Thinking, Doe

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• It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position.

  Harold L. Ickes

  People, Impossible, Program

  "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power". Book by Daniel Yergin, new edition, 1993.

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• Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

  Jonathan Alter

  Cancer, Modern Life, Littles

  Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”

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• The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy of European democracies - not just directly by threatening the livelihoods of so many people and pushing the economy into a downward spiral, but also indirectly by undermining the legitimacy of the political system through this backdoor rewriting of the social contract.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  People, Political, Democracy

  "The root of Europe's riots" by Ha-Joon Chang, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2012.

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• Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

  Molly Haskell

  Solitude, Infidelity, Adultery

  Molly Haskell (1992). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, Citadel Press

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• Well, I believe you created those experiences over and over because they mirrored something you believed about yourself. It doesn't really matter how long we have had a problem, or how big it is, or how life-threatening it is. The Point of Power Is Always in the Present Moment.

  Louise Hay

  Believe, Long, Matter

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• The trouble is, SMers are allowing themselves to be defined by what they are not. We think, "Oh, so many people believe that we're all murderers and rapists, and we have to explain that we're not!" Uh so, a slogan for the gay civil rights movement should be "Normal, Non-threatening and Not After Your Children"?

  Laura Antoniou

  Children, Believe, Gay

  "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up, Issue 1, Winter 1995.

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• In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I'd be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn't worry about it so much.

  Hugo Weaving

  Children, Real, Fighting

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• The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

  Livy

  Serious, Trouble, Seems

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book III, section 39,

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• The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

  Peter Tork

  Plot, Comedy, Used

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• If I am told to be at a shoot at 10 A.M., I am ready on time. By 11:30, I lose my patience. After that, I keep threatening to leave the sets if they don't begin soon. It works sometimes.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Sometimes, Ready, Ifs

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• While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Gossip, Mind, Let It Go

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• O' beautiful, for spacious skies
  But now those skies are threatening
  They're beating plowshares into swords
  For this tired old man that we elected king.

  Don Henley

  Beautiful, Kings, Tired

  "Song: 'The End of the Innocence'". 1989.

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• No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated object that must be strictly monitored by its owner to prevent lapses into health-threatening behaviors as identified by risk discourse. For those with the socioeconomic resources to indulge in risk modification, this discourse may supply the advantages of a new religion; for others, this discourse has the potential to create anxiety and guilt, to promote hopelessness and fear of the future.

  Deborah Lupton

  Indulge In, House, Anxiety

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• I would hope to get together with the Latino community, if I could ever have them talk to me without screaming and threatening me. So I hope to get together with the community and try to explain what we do, so that's going to be one of my missions coming up.

  Joe Arpaio

  Community, Trying, Together

  "Arizona's 'one-pizza' Democrats taste success as GOP shares slice of the pie" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2012.

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• The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

  Ben Gibbard

  Rocks, Indie Rock, Chinese

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• In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.

  Annie Besant

  Fashion, Art, Kings

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.332, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere they are at war with the forces threatening us and the planet.

  Rebecca Solnit

  War, Threatening Us, People

  "2013 Will Be Year Zero In Our Climate Battle" by Rebecca Solnit, www.motherjones.com. December 31, 2012.

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