Threatening Quotes - Page 18

• Do they think I'm on drugs? That I have a life-threatening illness? That I'm anorexic? Emotionally, it doesn't get easier to hear those criticisms - but it gets easier to be resolute about my reaction to it.

  Fiona Apple

  Thinking, Drug, Criticism

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

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• When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. I seem to transform myself into the opponent, and every movement he makes as well as every thought he conceives are felt as if they were my own and I intuitively...know when and how to strike him.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Identity, Movement, Opponents

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• Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Monsters, Sides

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• By threatening war against Iran, Iraq and North Korea in his now-famous "Axis of Evil" address, the president painted himself into a corner. Either Bush now goes to war against one of these regimes, or he will be humiliated and exposed as a bellicose bluff.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, Axes, Iran

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• If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.

  Ameen Rihani

  Spiritual, People, Inspire

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• In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Thinking, Challenges, Growth

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• We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, just as we found it a few years ago building competitive armaments. We are trying to reduce armaments to preserve the world's solvency. We shall have to reduce competitive trade barriers to preserve the world's sanity. As between the two, trade barriers are more destructive than armaments and more threatening to the peace of the world.

  Owen D. Young

  Years, Two, Trying

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• The pink campaign has also served to "normalize" and depoliticize the disease and that makes it less threatening for a LOT of companies to jump onboard and claim breast cancer as their cause.

  Ravida Din

  Cancer, Campaigns, Disease

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory.

  Saint Augustine

  Running, Lonely, Hero

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• Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone.

  Sheryl Crow

  Hands, Disease, Knows

  "Sheryl Crow: Cancer changed my music". CNN interview, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2007.

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• Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to describe ways of behaving and thinking that are alien, threatening, and obscure to them.

  Seymour Krim

  Meaningful, Thinking, Psychosis

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• I hope there's a window that opens in American television where the rest of the world is viewed in a less censored light. There is something about the world outside the United States that is not understood here - that seems threatening to Americans.

  Rula Jebreal

  Light, United States, Television

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.

  Andy Rooney

  Two, Giving, Advice

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• I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that we have to be aggressive in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel and defeat the Keystone Pipeline.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Energy, Climate

  "Sen Bernie Sanders on gun control: 'I do not accept the fact that I have been weak on this issue. In fact, I have been strong on this issue'". "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. August 30, 2015.

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• The business of the believer with his Bible open is to pray, 'Lord, give me the meaning and spirit of your word, while it lies open before me; apply your word with power to my soul, threatening or promise, doctrine or precept, whatever it may be; lead me into the soul and marrow of your word.'

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Giving, Soul

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• In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British Empire in order to challenge the threatening tide of Nazism and fascism and also to provide employment for actors from Los Angeles's British colony. The best two were Hollywood's Gunga Din and Britain's The Four Feathers...

  Philip French

  Order, Two, Challenges

  "The Four Feathers" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.

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• I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

  Winston Churchill

  Numbers, Letters, Week

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• It is sometimes easier to trust God in a life-threatening battle than in the small challenges of daily life.

  Max Anders

  Challenges, Battle, Trust In God

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• I'm very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it's hard to like someone threatening your children and throwing fire bombs through your window, but He asks us to love them and that I can do

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Fire, Bombs

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• I just always remember myself as the teenager with questions about movies and screenwriting. I would hope that there was somebody out there who would answer those questions, and so, if I can take a few minutes to do it, I will. It's not threatening for us. We're not being stalked, so it's easier.

  John August

  Teenager, Answers, Remember

  Source: collider.com

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• We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in.

  Meryl Streep

  Girl, Thinking, Challenges

  "Meryl Streep, Michelle Obama Discuss Gender Equality: 'We're Still Not There Yet'" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 19, 2015.

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• I found that most people don't really want to know the truth. There are plenty of people who want to know the truth on their terms or require that the truth be contained within certain boundaries of comfort. But truth can never be known this way. You have to seek truth from a place of not knowing, and that can be a very threatening place because we think we already know the truth or we are afraid of what the truth might be.

  Jim Palmer

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• The nation of Iran is threatening to sue the makers of the movie Argo. They say the movie was an unrealistic portrayal of their country. You can't do that! That would be like Scotland suing over the movie Shrek.

  Craig Ferguson

  Country, Iran, Scotland

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• I was looking, a piece in the "L.A. Times" about a paper called "The Menace" back in 1915, that was railing against Catholics and it said all sorts of things about them. They are essentially a fifth column. They are crypto fascists, that they said if we were compelled to live in this term with Romanists, that`s their term of Catholics, the Romanists will have to be taught their place in. Was that bigotry or were they correct back then to look at Catholicism as fundamentally alien and threatening to the American way of life?

  Chris Hayes

  Catholic, Looks, Pieces

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• People who are slavish to a fantasy ideology become very lonely in the world. It's very alienating and sometimes reality is very threatening to this magical way of thinking. On the other hand, if it is a politician or leader that chooses for whatever reason to remain in this state of magical thinking, then they should be called out for it strongly and repeatedly.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Lonely, Thinking, Reality

  "ORIGIN Interview: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Interview with Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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