Threatening Quotes - Page 8

• My friend's granddad died of prostate cancer and it had a profound effect on me. So when I was presented with the opportunity to speak out, I had to take it. This is a life threatening issue for men, it happens every day. The more you know the better your chances are of dealing with it if the worst were to happen.

  Tristan Wilds

  Cancer, Opportunity, Men

  "'90210' star Tristan Wilds poses nude in Cosmopolitan UK for cancer awareness" by Cristina Everett, www.nydailynews.com. July 08, 2011.

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• That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

  Mary Wesley

  People, Challenges, Aspects Of Life

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• [His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Fire, Volcanoes, Mind

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• We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.

  Anna C Salter

  Realization, Bears, Behavior

  Anna C. Salter (2004). “Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : who They Are, how They Operate, and how We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.

  Ray Dalio

  People, Rich, Poor

  "Bridgewater Founder Ray Dalio: Second Adolf Hitler More Likely In Weak Economy" By Bonnie Kavoussi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Powerful, Men, Devices

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 3, 23,

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• In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there is a difference between good and bad taste, or that it matters what you look at or read or listen to.

  Roger Scruton

  Thinking, Differences, Judging

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• Search marketing, and most Internet marketing in fact, can be very threatening because there are no rules. There’s no safe haven. To do it right, you need to be willing to be wrong. But search marketing done right is all about being wrong. Experimentation is the only way. No one really knows whether that page will rank #1 in Google; no one really knows which paid search copy will get the highest click rate. Even experts can’t tell you which content will attract the most links. You just have to try it and see.

  Mike Moran

  Safe Haven, Google, Marketing

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• Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.

  John B. Larson

  Teenager, Brain, Development

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Country, Wrath, Spain

  "Unity of the European Union is about to be tested" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.

  James A. Garfield

  Numbers, Worry, Receiving

  "Garfield of Ohio : The Available Man". Book by John M. Tyler, 1970.

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• The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Thinking, Focus, Missing

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• Whether advanced driver training helps drivers in the long term is one of those controversial and unresolved mysteries of the road, but my eye-opening experience at Bondurant raises the curious idea that we buy cars—for most people one of the most costly things they will ever own—with an underdeveloped sense of how to use them. This is true for many things, arguably, but not knowing what the F9 key does in Microsoft Word is less life-threatening than not knowing how to properly operate antilock brakes.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Eye, Keys, Microsoft Word

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• With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed around the monkey, and I think that's actually hazardous.

  Ed Helms

  Distance, Thinking, Monkeys

  "THE HANGOVER PART II On Set Interview with Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Director Todd Phillips". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Order, Christianity, Deals

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• Again, during a sacrifice, the augur Spurinna warned Caesar that the danger threatening him would not come later than the Ides of March.

  Suetonius

  Sacrifice, March, Danger

  Suetonius (1980). “The twelve Caesars”, Penguin Group USA

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• An abundance of Twitter users believe they can troll and rant with impunity, no matter how debasing or even threatening their 140-character posts pose.

  Jonathan Capehart

  Believe, Character, Matter

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

  Ian Bremmer

  Government, Ideas, Political

  "Democracy in Cyberspace". Foreign Affairs, November/December 2010.

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• ...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.

  Olive Ann Burns

  Meaningful, Real, Book

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• Somehow, AI is playing an important role of breaking up the ice of complacency. We have a comfortable life, we just don't want to take risks. AI is threatening too many comfortable jobs to make people think about taking risks again.

  Garry Kasparov

  Thinking, People, Risk

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music that was almost threatening to eclipse rock music and indie rock music in terms of popularity, which it has certainly gone on to do. But you know, this is the end of the 1980s, beginning of the '90s. The whole independent label thing has really evolved to this incredible point from the early '80s when we started, and there wasn't one record label at all, until a couple people started forming these small labels.

  Lee Ranaldo

  Strong, Couple, Independent

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Unfortunately, there's a big, bad new bully threatening ocean animals, climate change. We might save fish only to have them starve because of climate change. It seems like the problems just won't stop. That's what got me to quit my cushy University job and take a big pay cut to work on conservation.

  Mark Powell

  Jobs, Ocean, Cutting

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or outer, are breaking down or are not working anymore. On a personal level, this often means the experience of loss of one kind or another: the death of a loved one, the end of a close relationship, loss of possessions, your home, status, or a breakdown of the external structures of your life that provided a sense of security.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Home, Mean, Loss

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Arousal, Tasks

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action... they cannot get themselves to do things they find subjectively threatening even though they are objectively safe. They may even shun easily manageable activities because they see them as leading to more threatening events over which they will be unable to exercise adequate control.

  Albert Bandura

  Exercise, People, Effort

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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