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Threatening Us Quotes

Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the... Herman Wouk
We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason--" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual--" "--detention--" "--disembowelment-- J. K. Rowling
Knowledge from experience: the heart goes blind because the need is stronger than anything else. Your ego is blind, your id is eager. It will get to the point of smashing everything. When there is a danger from outside, you bolt, but when the danger comes from inside, how can you bolt? The danger from inside is that complicated thing, the love of the wolf, the complicity that attaches us to that which threatens us. Helene Cixous
John Lancaster Spalding quote: "We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by..."
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. John Lancaster Spalding
I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don't care about the United States. They do. Kit Bond
You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile. The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. "And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they shouldn't talk to me. Orson Scott Card
Bob Woodward quote: "Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the..."
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us. Bob Woodward
Pierre Corneille quote: "Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no..."
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us! Pierre Corneille
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny. Robert Dale Owen
David Mamet quote: "In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't..."
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. David Mamet
I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike. Rosanne Cash
Marsha Sinetar quote: "Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave..."
Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you. Marsha Sinetar
As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us. Moshe Sharett
America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children. George W. Bush
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. Ulrich Beck

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