Threatening Quotes - Page 20

• One reason that challenge brings happiness is that it allows you to expand your self - definition. You become larger. Suddenly you can do yoga or make homemade beer or speak a decent amount of Spanish. Research shows that the more elements make up your identity, the less threatening it is when any one element is threatened.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Yoga, Beer, Self

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• This is our message - killing is wrong. Mass killing is wrong. Threatening mass destruction is a denial of our own humanity and is suicidal. When something is wrong we have to stop it. Dismantling the machinery of destruction is thus a practical act of love that we can all join in. Please join us - together we are unstoppable.

  Angie Zelter

  Suicidal, Mass Destruction, Humanity

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• I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle.

  Steve Carell

  Thinking, Idols, Looks

  "First Banana". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. July 5, 2010.

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• If Trump was just a piddly-ass little hotel owner some place, having the kind of character and manners that he has, he would not be worth our notice. But because he's now been based to this huge stage, then his dimensions become immense. He's not a tragic figure because he doesn't have the capacity to be tragic. But the consequences of his life and his self now are immense; they're threatening to the world and to the sanctity of human life.

  Richard Ford

  Character, World, Kind

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• What a great unifier getting scared is. Not in an actual threatening, real-world way, but getting scared from horror movies or haunted houses or ghost stories. You laugh because it's a release. People laugh when they're nervous. I laugh so much at a haunted house. It's out of fear, but it's also a wonderful release. Getting scared like that, you feel good, and you feel exhilarated afterwards.

  Kyle Kinane

  People, Laughing, House

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think a lot of people do have questions about life, 'What's the purpose of my life?', 'What's the meaning of my life?', 'Why am I here?' ... It's hard to find a place where you can discuss those issues. You can't go down to the pub and say, 'What do you think the meaning of life is?' But actually, most people have those questions, somewhere in the back of their minds. And if you can find a place where you can discuss it with a group of people who, like you, are outside of the Church, and it's a non-threatening, relaxed environment, quite a lot of people want to do that.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Football is brutality. Football is career-ending, life-threatening injury just by stepping on the field.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Football, Careers, Brutality

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book whats really at stake, but ultimately its not about them - its always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.

  Andrew Gross

  Meaningful, Book, Issues

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• A mother's love is like a tower, Rising far above the crowd, And her smile is like the sunshine, Breaking through a threatening cloud.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Sunshine

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• Competition has never been more threatening than it is now. Innovative thinkers challenge the status quo in their organizations. They are often viewed as "troublemakers." They threaten the defenders of the status quo. So competition within an organization can also be brutal. The most effective leaders overcome "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom" by being change agents themselves. They encourage and reward innovative thinking. I have observed that people only resist changes imposed on them by other people.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Thinking, People, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.

  Rick Perry

  War, Challenges, World

  Source: stream.org

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• I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you, and proceed to the next command.

  Eoin Colfer

  Police, Next, Procedures

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis fowl: the Arctic incident”

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• If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup of coffee then you're never going to understand what I'm really saying. Because you know what? You're going to shut down and close off before you hear me. If I'm threatening you, you're going to see it the way you need to see it so you can dismiss me.

  Tori Amos

  Coffee, Thinking, Needs

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• Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive." And, life-threatening though my vision seemed, I would not repudiate it: "Sometimes I think I shall die from being different even as I cling to the difference fiercely."

  Nancy Mairs

  Thinking, Differences, Being Different

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• The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect.

  Gary Haugen

  Smart, People, Brave

  Gary A. Haugen (2009). “Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian”, p.118, InterVarsity Press

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• Steve Rom's bravery is unique. Faced with life-threatening circumstances, he focused his determination and spirit to defeat an unbeatable disease. Steve's story is an inspiration to all.

  Fred Dryer

  Determination, Inspiration, Unique

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• But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels.

  Gautama Buddha

  Book, Angel, Giving

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• Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Fire, Abuse

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• Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  America, United States, May

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.56, Basic Books

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• Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Oil, Challenges, Humanity

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• That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for deciding between diverse interests, then voting, of course, can be regarded as a humane and civilized process.

  Robert Musil

  People, Voting, Democracy

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• Tempus would be protected, better shielded from whatever the Stepson thought threatening, if love could heal and save.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Would Be, Salvation

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.12, Paradise Publishing

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• As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.

  Wendell Berry

  Long, Strange, Aliens

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• Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic front. I would like to know what it is they have in mind exactly: action by a fifth column, this disparate bunch of 'national traitors', or are they hoping to put us in a worsening social and economic situation so as to provoke public discontent? We consider such statements irresponsible and clearly aggressive in tone, and we will respond to them accordingly.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Threatening Us, Mind

  "Prince Charles is right: Similarites between Putin and Hitler are uncanny" by Trent Franks, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2014.

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• As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful. We have no choice then but to become its exploiters, and to lose, by consequence, our place in it. It is only when, by humility, openness, generosity, courage, we make ourselves able to relate to it on its terms that it ceases to be alien.

  Wendell Berry

  Humility, Long, Generosity

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