Threatening Quotes - Page 4

• My dad was one of those dads that would make me stop crying by threatening to beat me.

  Felipe Esparza

  Dad, Cry, Beats

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• When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow?
  If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad,
  Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Sea, Mad

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate (1995). “Titus Andronicus: Third Series”, p.201, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Society, Culture, Today

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• Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

  George H. W. Bush

  Presidential, Doe, Hussein

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Touch her,” he said in Scott’s ear, his voice low and threatening, “and it’ll be the biggest regret of your life.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Regret, Voice, Ears

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.441, Simon and Schuster

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• But you are also the biggest threat of all ...You are a gay person I like. Your threat is that you make being gay seem non-threatening. It's almost as if your happiness does not take mine away.

  Stephen Colbert

  I Like You, Gay, Doe

  "Ice cream? Immigration? 12 ways Colbert kept truthiness alive" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. April 10, 2014.

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• But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative finger. “You're green. Are you sick?” “It's a fashion thing, Posy. Like wearing lipstick,” I say. “It's meant to be pretty,” whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, “I think you'd be pretty in any color.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fashion, Thinking, Color

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• When do these three days expire?" "That's what pisses me off. I don't know. He was annoyingly vague." "The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Three, Nerves, Knows

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.841, Dell

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• And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.

  Tamora Pierce

  Believe, Eye, Giving

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Mastiff: The Legend of Beka Cooper #3”, p.262, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I'm not threatening to kill myself. But you need to know this about me because—if you want to be my mate—I won't be like Leo. I won't let you sleep around with anyone else. I won't be forced either. I've had enough. If that makes me a dog in the manger, so be it. But if I am yours, then you damned well are going to be mine." - Anna to Charles

  Patricia Briggs

  Dog, Sleep, Needs

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• There you are!” he shouted at them. “Father has half the castle turned out looking for you.” “Us?” Hadrian asked. “Yes.” Fanen nodded. “He wants to see the two thieves in his chambers right away.” “You didn’t steal the silver or anything, did you, Royce?” Hadrian asked. “I would bet it has more to do with your flirting with Lenare this afternoon and threatening Mauvin just to show off,” Royce retorted. “That was your fault,” Hadrian said, jabbing his finger at him.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Father, Flirting, Two

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• I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of you arguing about murder, and threatening each other, when you're supposed to be in love and you could be doing something pretty nice. And then I thought, well, maybe it ain't so strange after all. Maybe it's like this with most people, everyone doing pretty much the same thing except in a different way. And all the time they're holding heaven in their hands.

  Jim Thompson

  Nice, Hair, Hands

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• Take one more step and I'll put an arrow through you." Will tried to model his voice on the quiet, threatening tone Halt had used. He had retrieved several of his arrows from the nearest target and now he had one of them ready, laid on the bowstring. Halt glanced around approvingly. "Good idea," he said. "Aim for the left calf. It's a very painful wound.

  John Flanagan

  Ideas, Voice, Arrows

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• When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that scared me was the picture of dying slowly and painfully, the loss of independence and identity to illness.

  Josh Lanyon

  Fear, Loss, Dying Slowly

  Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books

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• Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.

  Libba Bray

  Lying, Mean, Snakes

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.129, Scholastic Inc.

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• A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to burn it to the ground. The panicked nobleman's message for help was answered by the arrival of a single Ranger. Aghast, the nobleman confronted the solitary cowled figure. 'They sent one Ranger?' he said incredulously. 'One man?' 'How many riots do you have?' the Ranger replied.

  John Flanagan

  Men, People, House

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• It made him feel indispensable and needed - even if the fact that Jocelyn didn't appear to care wheather he slept in her daughter's bed or not did underscore that Clary's mother apparently regarded him as about sexually threatening as a goldfish.

  Cassandra Clare

  Daughter, Mother, Bed

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

  Francine Rivers

  Heart, Mind, Fiction

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• Blue." It was Ronan's voice, for the first time, and everyone, even Helen, twisted their head towards him. His head was cocked in a way that Gansey recognized as dangerous. Something in his eyes was sharp as he stared at Blue. He asked, "Do you know Gansey?" ... Blue looked defensive under their stares. She said reluctantly. "Only his name." With his fingers loosely together, elbows on his knees, Ronan leaned forward across Adam to be closer to Blue. He could be unbelievably threatening. "And how is it," he asked," you came to know Gansey's name?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Blue, Names

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• There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Book, Offering, Advice

  Ellen DeGeneres (2003). “The Funny Thing Is...”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.

  Howard Zinn

  Democracy, Citizens, Movement

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.674, Routledge

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• Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.

  Patricia Briggs

  Trying, Alphas, Adam Hauptman

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.73, Penguin

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• No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard.” Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. “I am not threatening the king, ser, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Ser Boros opens his mouth, kill him.” The dwarf smiled. “Now that was a threat, ser. See the difference?

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Men, Dwarves

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1069, Bantam

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• Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

  Robin Morgan

  People, Groups, Oppression

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• Are you threatening to kidnap me?" "If you want to look at it that way," Jace said, "yes.

  Cassandra Clare

  Looks, Want, Way

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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