Menace Quotes - Page 5

You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!

Karen Marie Moning

Talking, Lanes, Catastrophe

Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.75, Delacorte Press

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...there is therefore now no condemnation for two reasons: you are dead now; and God, as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, has been dead all along. The blame game was over before it started. It really was. All Jesus did was announce that truth and tell you it would make you free. It was admittedly a dangerous thing to do. You are a menace. Be he did it; and therefore, menace or not, here you stand: uncondemned, forever, now. What are you going to do with your freedom?

Robert Farrar Capon

Jesus, Games, Two

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Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.

Simon Callow

Real, Phones, People

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I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven't a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.

Celia Imrie

Stars, War, Gun

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Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

Country, Cities, Population

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Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I’d slice his head off.

Mira Grant

Three, Lessons, Said

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Some would argue that the president himself benefited from a form of affirmative action because as a C student, he only got into Yale because his father was a wealthy alumnus. But the White House counters that Saddam is a menace and must be stopped.

Jon Stewart

Father, Yale, White

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We should strengthen the faith of our people in their own future, the faith of every Canadian in Canada, and of every province in its sister province. This faith wrongs no one; burdens no one; menaces no one; dishonors no one; and, as it was said of old, faith moves mountains, so I venture reverently to express my own belief that if the difficulties of our future as a dominion were as high as the peaks of the Alps or Andes, yet that the pure patriotic faith of a united people would be all sufficient to overcome and ultimately to triumph over all such difficulties.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Moving, Patriotic, People

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Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

Roger Rosenblatt

Time, Men, Age

Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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Proving that the best villains have the charisma of a hero, (Jason) Statham makes a strong impression, supplying the kind of menace that permeates the movie even when he's not on screen. His fight with (Dwayne) Johnson doesn't have the bang you'd expect from a The Transporter versus The Rock match-up, but the climactic Statham-(Vin)Diesel battle more than delivers.

Alonso Duralde

Strong, Hero, Fighting

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It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at leastthat might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.

Lord Chesterfield

Kings, Mad, Prussia

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The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Art, America, Issues

"Our Mission Statement" by William F. Buckley Jr., www.nationalreview.com. November 19, 1955.

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So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them nationalist fervor about a country whose principal export is citizens who can swim.

Dennis Miller

Country, Sorry, Swim

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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Country, Order, Unemployment

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3”, p.420, Best Books on

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This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

Aldous Huxley

Liberty, Population, Growing

Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

Paddy Chayefsky

Hate, Television, One Love

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There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.

Warren G. Harding

Religious, Church, Liberty

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In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that one comes to the end of a campaign with one's ribs loose, and ready for King Lear, or a hanging, or a course of medical journals.

H. L. Mencken

Kings, Political, Quality

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Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

Moses Finley

Plato, Goal, Philosopher

"Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses I. Finley (Second Edition), Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 6, 1985.

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The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.

Martin Nolan

Baseball, Stars, Quilts

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Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.

Pope Paul VI

Men, Creating, Risk

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God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?

Mahatma Gandhi

Military, India, Would Be

Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

Mahatma Gandhi

World, Growing, Today

Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.

Maggie Stiefvater

People, Interesting, Pushing

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For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.

Rachel Carson

Men, Past, Links

Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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