Threatened Quotes - Page 12

• Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.

  Ed Ayres

  Courage, Fall, Acceptance

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• We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Past

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• 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.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Integrity, Law, America

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• Let’s face it: There are people who won’t be happy when you get too blessed. There are people who feel threatened by your success. There are people who, out of envy, will just not like you anymore.

  Bo Sanchez

  Blessed, Envy, People

  BO SANCHEz “Enjoy Your Age!: How to Claim the Blessings of Your Season”, Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc.

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• 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.

  Neil Young

  Simple, Thinking, Play

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• If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.

  Barack Obama

  Strong Women, Strong Man, Should

  Barack Obama's Remarks in Town Hall with the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 28, 2014.

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• Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Weapons, Threat

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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• North Korea threatened to attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend that we wanted to see it.

  Tina Fey

  Korea, Interviews, Sony

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• In a world threatened by a famine of righteousness and spiritual starvation, we have been commanded to sustain the prophet. As we give heed to, uphold, and affirm prophetic word, we witness that we have the faith to humbly submit to the will, the wisdom, and the timing of the Lord. We heed prophetic word even when it may seem unreasonable, inconvenient, and uncomfortable. According to the world’s standards, following the prophet may be unpopular, politically incorrect, or socially unacceptable. But following the prophet is always right.

  Carol F. McConkie

  Spiritual, Giving, World

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• Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car on the road back to San Francisco. The next night the glass window in the tailgate (the back window) was shot out (300 miles removed from the first shooting)...The late Arthur T. Harris, MD, was threatened by two men with assassination if he continued to use Laetrile.

  Ernst T. Krebs

  Cancer, Dark, Night

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• 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.

  Vernon A. Walters

  Attitude, Want, Feels

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• Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Peace, War, Blessed

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• We live in an uncertain world and we want to believe that what a man is and what a woman is-I know that. And people don't want to critically interrogate the world around them. Whenever I'm afraid of something or I'm threatened by something, it's because it brings up some sort of insecurity in me. I think the reality is that most of us are insecure about our gender. They think, 'Okay, if there's this trans person over here, then what does that make me?

  Laverne Cox

  Believe, Pride, Gay

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• 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.

  Irene Nemirovsky

  War, Happy Life, Imagination

  Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Française: Storm in June”, Vintage

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• Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people."

  Winston Churchill

  Fall, Mean, Sea

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.140, Da Capo Press

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• We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened
  . . . There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, White, Black

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• In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Past, People, Together

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• Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Sex, Couple, Indifference

  Mike Huckabee (2015). “God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy”, p.91, St. Martin's Press

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• It sucks for me, because now I have to not be as crazy as I am on the Internet. Which totally sucks, because it's not going to be fun anymore. But the repercussions are really bad. Like, Taylor Swift fans are really crazy. They threatened to murder me and stuff. It's really bizarre, and disgusting. They're the worst people in the world.

  Diplo

  Fun, Crazy, People

  "Diplo Says He Knows Taylor Swift’s ‘Secrets’ And He’s ‘Scared For His Life’" By Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2015.

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• I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

  Tahir Shah

  Fear, Rip, Brain

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.65, Lulu.com

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• Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

  George C. Williams

  Special, Extinction, Lineage

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• Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life’s uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our lives worthless, our days an endless circular tread. Without God we stand condemned, doomed to a life without the precious gift of hope.

  T. Davis Bunn

  Reeds, Uncaring, Precious Gifts

  T. Davis Bunn, Isabella Bunn (2004). “The Innocent Libertine (Heirs of Acadia Book #2)”, p.200, Bethany House

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• Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most alert to civil liberties when there is a hint of press censorship in the air. And educators become perturbed at every effort to curb academic freedom. But too seldom do all of these become militant when ostensibly the rights of only one group are threatened. They do not always react to the truism that when the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

  Earl Warren

  Religious, Rights, Air

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• You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Church, May

  Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

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