Quotes about Threatening

"Now the same fear was being projected on Iraq -- that he was an alarming, threatening leader in the region who was out to grab the oil weapon and use it against the West."
-Patrick Tyler

"The question is, do we dare risk failure in this war on terrorism? There isn't anything more threatening to American citizens than the terrorists, and it's going to take what it takes, whatever that number is, ... Defeat is not an option here. Pulling out is not an option."
-John Kyl

"Political ambitions, terrorism and even climactic conditions are now threatening the energy security outlook for most European Union member states as well as other countries."
-Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz

"He is being investigated for allegations of threatening violence, excessive use of force, possession of maybe an illegal weapon and violating the electoral process."
-Assuman Mugenyi

"I just went over a jump without enough momentum to carry myself over it. I landed wrong and hit the ground. I rode all my life and never had a broken bone. I knew it wasn't life-threatening, just life-messing-up. I knew right away that I messed up and that life was never going to be the same."
-Dan Hendricks

"These conditions are life-threatening and dangerous to the horses and the riders."
-George Morris

"It's hard enough to work [an overnight] shift and then to have to worry about people coming into your store and threatening their lives. It makes it very difficult."
-Michael Graf

"Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective."
-P. J. O'Rourke

"It looks as though we will have to go back this time. Instead of threatening GAIA Inc, as we were forced to do last year time and again, it looks like we will have to take some sort of action, without saying anything to anybody."
-Dennis Clarke

"During a grievance hearing the union rep. Jeff Brown made a threatening comment that he would start stalking me to see how I liked it, and the police were called, and he left without incident."
-Karen Knight

"With all of these pop culture icons, it's a way for people to enter into a religious discussion in a non traditional or less threatening way."
-David Dobson

"But that was the general view of the times, north and south, ... He was not unusual in that view. The only thing was that he became exceptional with an exceptional movie that many people increasingly moving into human rights said 'this is too threatening ...'"
-Bruce Tyler

"Although the prospects are still remote today, in-store and virtual top-up methods have the potential to lead wireless phone carriers or related players into merchant acquiring, threatening banks' and card networks' market positions."
-Gwenn Bézard

"He came up to me. He wished me all the good things for the Jewish new year. In fact, I was quite amazed that he did that because of all the threatening letters to me, my family and my partner."
-Jonathan Samuels

"It was terrible. At that moment you don't know if it's a passing thing or if it's life-threatening."
-Jason Hanson

"These are not the most provocative or threatening films that we looked at, but these are films that touched everybody in the heart."
-Jason Liff

"He was a guy where we weren't daring him to shoot, but he wasn't probably the most threatening guy on the floor. He did a nice job and hit some big shots."
-Jeff Trumbauer

"[Hardaway] sprained it and tried to play through it. The tissue stretched and basically he runs the chance of having a long-term detriment. It's our recommendation because of how unstable the thumb is to have it repaired now before it gets so severe that he ends up having arthritis or career-threatening injuries."
-Thomas Carter

"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."
-King Whitney Jr.

"We have not intended our actions to sound threatening, ... Obviously, they have been threatening, and I apologize for that. We didn't mean to be making threats."
-George Friedman

"Patrick came up with - 'the car's mine.' We said it doesn't mean anything to us. He started threatening us."
-Joe Roberts

"Lonely people differ from non-lonely individuals in their tendency to perceive stressful circumstances as threatening rather than challenging, and to passively cope with stress by failing to solicit instrumental and emotional support and by withdrawing from stress rather than by actively coping and attempting to problem solve."
-John Cacioppo

"To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators."
-Lewis H. Lapham

"One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time."
-Jeff Cooper

"I think it's a very important acknowledgment that global warming is transforming the Arctic and threatening polar bears with extinction."
-Kassie Siegel

"A frantic response by bureaucrats who felt the (student) movement was threatening their grip on power."
-Lorenzo Meyer

"One of the things that happens for the gay population is threatening to out people at their jobs, threatening to out people in their communities. People have felt that there is no protection ... because it's via the Internet."
-David Kilmnick

"He's very well-adjusted. He's married. He has children. He's happy. He doesn't see any of this as threatening or problematic. He says he thinks it's fun and exciting to be part of this experience."
-Jim Rayfield