Threatened Quotes
Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.
Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.
Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you." "I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin. "And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried.
Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?
The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it.
When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.
Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.
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.
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.
The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.
I don't have much racial stuff in my act. And no one's ever really threatened me to my face. Threats on the internet don't bother me so much.
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.
We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured.
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
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.
The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.
The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.
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.
Like 'em or hate 'em, these once peaceful gun owners of the '90s are feeling a lot like Jews of 1939 Germany. Maligned, lied about, persecuted and threatened. Afraid, confused and angry.
A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting
We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.
We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.
Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard.
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.
Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.
The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.
A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.
The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.
Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says.
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.