Threatened Quotes - Page 2

• People are only mean when they are threatened.

  Mitch Albom

  Mean, People

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.154, Broadway Books

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• It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Gratitude, Philosophy, Fire

  Poppy Z. Brite (1997). “Exquisite Corpse”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Dark, Clouds

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.

  William S. Burroughs

  Hate, Ignorance, Clouds

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.78, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this--instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy--we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy.

  James Redfield

  Beautiful, Dislike Someone, Giving

  James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)

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• Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

  Dan Lipinski

  Loss, Energy, Climate

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• Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

  Archie Shepp

  Ideas, Musical, Culture

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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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• One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

  Winston Churchill

  Running, Trying, Double Standard

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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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• The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

  James A. Baldwin

  Men, White, Black

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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

  Laura Linney

  Fighting, Life Is, Urges

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• If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Scary, Receiving, Reason Why

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• In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Differences, World, Feels

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• In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

  Paul Robeson

  Land, Class, Hysteria

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

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, World, Secular

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• One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.

  Steven Pinker

  Loneliness, People, Feelings

  "Steven Pinker: the mind reader". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 1999.

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• Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Thinking, Doe, Quitting

  "Joaquin Phoenix Interview – He talks about Quitting Acting to Focus on Music – Part 1". Interview with Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub, collider.com. February 3, 2009.

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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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• 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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• How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.

  Christopher Meloni

  Years, Firsts, Episodes

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