Threatened Quotes

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

‎[Melisandre] "His Grace is growing fond of you." [Jon] "I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice." Page 58

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.

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.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says.

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

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

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

We are living through an epochal shift. If we aren't careful, the elementary foundations of our pluralistic democracy will be threatened.

A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

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

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.

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.

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of Moses and Isaiah and Luke and Paul.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

I don't feel threatened. You can live your life being scared of losing someone and, at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you and that's it.

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.

I was the first person Donald Trump threatened to sue on Twitter.

I threw a strop one day and threatened to walk to Budleigh Salterton.

Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.

I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.

One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.

North Korea threatened to launch a missile at South Korea. North Korea backed down after South Korea threatened to launch a sequel to 'Gangnam Style.'

What is wonderful to see is how incredibly affectionate and physically affectionate Nancy Reagan was, you know? She was so on her guard, she was threatened by just about everybody.

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.

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

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

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

They have terrified my poor wife and threatened my very person!" Halt eyed the man impassivley until the outburst was finished. Worse than that," he said quietly, "they've wasted my time.

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.

The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.

If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward.

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?