“ When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor. ”
- Jane Welsh Carlyle- Copy
- 611
“ The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. ”
- James A. Baldwin- Copy
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“ When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble. ”
- Barbara Taylor Bradford- Copy
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“ Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. ”
- A Course In Miracles- Copy
- 3.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 329
“ 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- Copy
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“ Our life is not so much threatened, As our perception. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, "Candle making industry threatened.". ”
- Newt Gingrich- Copy
- 327
“ Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 433
“ My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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“ The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
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“ The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing… ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men… ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else. ”
- Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf- Copy
- 3.8K
“ We played a lot of semi-biker bars. We'd go in and play three sets of our original stuff and, more than anything else, we had to beat 'em over the head with the beat becuase, if they didn 't know who you were, they didn't want to hear no love songs. We've never been beaten up at a club but boy, have we been threatened! ”
- Peter Buck- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions. I could do more for the union, but I wish to do more; for the destruction of the union would be the destruction of all the States… ”
- Sam Houston- Copy
- 254
“ Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity. ”
- George F. Kennan- Copy
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“ I'm lucky that I hooked up with my husband because he not only helps me but there's a joy for him as well. He enjoyed this part of me when we met. He was never threatened by it, by a woman who wanted a career. In fact, I think he prefers this, that I have a life as well… ”
- Susan Lucci- Copy
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“ I believe America's aerospace industry is gravely threatened by the aggressive subsidies and support that Europe showers on its domestic industry. Our workers and our economy will pay a high price if we don't wake up to this threat and take action. ”
- Patty Murray- Copy
- 3.1K
“ It is not enough to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others. In this world so filled with problems, so constantly threatened by dark and evil challenges, you can and must rise above mediocrity, above indifference… ”
- Gordon B. Hinckley- Copy
- 365
“ He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. Among the Romans it was customary before undertaking any important action or enterprise to obtain from the augurs, or state prophets, some hint of its probable outcome; and one of their favorite and most trustworthy modes of divination consisted in observing the flight of birds — the omens thence derived being called auspices… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident… or any sort worth speaking about… ”
- E. J. Smith- Copy
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“ America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now… we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace… ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
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“ Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible; he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress… ”
- Frank Goble- Copy
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“ Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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