Menace Quotes (page 3)

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• loneliness
• she
• learning

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still. Toni Morrison

• may
• lines
• line

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. Rollo May

• smile
• time
• him

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew. Suzanne Collins

• birthday
• today
• road

Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• fear
• dog
• she

Lucy was frightened, frightened near to death. Her voice choked, she could not breath, her limbs went numb. "This is not happening", she said to herself as the men forced her down; "it is just a dream, a nightmare". While the men, for their part, drank up her fear, revelled in it, did all they could to hurt her, to menace her, to heighten her terror. "Call your dogs!" they said to her. "Go on, call your dogs! No dogs? Then let us show you dogs! J. M. Coetzee

• military
• excellence
• government

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain. Anatole France

• mexican
• reach
• terminate

Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach Hunter S. Thompson

• god
• hell
• gods

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. Frederica Montseny

• powerful
• war
• power

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence. James Monroe

• people
• communication
• impossibility

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism. Czeslaw Milosz

• nature
• understanding
• hard

I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen. Hugh Grant

• vote
• war
• author

Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace. Bob Graham

• work
• joy
• consider

I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on. Gale Gordon

• powerful
• power
• age

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford. Arthur Goldberg

• freedom
• giving
• world

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. Mahatma Gandhi