Threatened Quotes

• Never run away from anything. Never!

  Winston Churchill

  Running, Healing, Double Standard

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• Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Battle

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• The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Baghdad

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• I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

  Campbell Scott

  Enforcement, Littles, Needs

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  The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage

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• A person who knows who they are is not threatened by the beliefs of others.

  Robert Anthony

  Belief, Self Awareness, Persons

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.25, Morgan James Publishing

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• Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.

  Donna Brazile

  Running, Tough Times, African American

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• Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.

  Helen Schucman

  Real, Unreal

  Helen Schucman “A Course in Miracles - Manual For Teachers”, A Course in Miracles

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• Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Men, Literature, Guilty

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• Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mastery, Demand, Instinct

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• It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

  Adam Levine

  World, Dangerous, Threat

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, School, Sunday

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.202, Vintage

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• I won't be threatened or intimidated by anyone and I've always been prepared to do what is necessary to defend my interests.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Interest, Prepared, Intimidated

  Source: autoweek.com

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• What you're gonna hear Jim Harbaugh say, many in this country are getting their backs up filled with rage and anger and disbelief, and they are threatened by this. Harbaugh believes in toughness in men, he believes in toughness in America, he believes in toughness in American men. You damn well want it in your Special Forces, gang. You want it with the Navy SEALs. You want it all over the United States military. You want manliness, you want toughness, you want bravery, you want courage.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Military, Believe

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Courage, Thoughtful

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• Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

  Pope John Paul II

  Hard Work, People, Evil

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• Syncretism can be disturbing to people. They have often been taught, "You have to have solid faith and must be sure of your religion," and so on. They fear that they might be threatened by these new developments and mergings. So you get a backlash against it.

  Ninian Smart

  People, Development, Might

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Rejection, Liberty

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• I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Assuming, Academic

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• I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Gay, Thinking, Challenges

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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Fathers Day, Mother, Dad

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• I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

  Noel Coward

  Birthday, Tuesday, Age

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• Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

  Barbara Boxer

  Law, Safety, Police

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• I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.

  Elayne Boosler

  Thinking, People, Get Away

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• There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

  Gloria Allred

  Strong Women, People, Problem

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