Top 1200 Life-Threatening Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.

Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.

Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.

In Brazil, I walked around with a lot of security. Fans were threatening to fight me.

There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. How many times in your life have you been unable to let in someone's love or even pushed it away? Much as we proclaim the wish to be truly loved, we are often afraid of that, and so find it difficult to open to love or let it all the way in.

The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down the right street or one seemingly unimportant conversation, and everything was changed. It wasn’t right that each lifetime was defined, ruined, ended, and made by such seemingly innocuous details. A major life-threatening event should come with a flashing warning sign that either said ABANDON ALL HOPE or SAFETY AHEAD. It was the cruelest joke of all that no one could see the most vicious curves until they were over the edge, falling into the abyss below.

Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is threatening their very families.

People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

It is not possible to know how to behave in threatening situations before you even end up in such a situation.

Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

No single platform can sensibly prevent all hateful, illegal or threatening speech - it can only act in due time to remove it.

A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization.

It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.

Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

Competition in the American tech sector is being gobbled up by the largest players, and it's threatening our entire industry.

For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I have learned how to enjoy the minute particulars of life once again, the grace of a hot cup of coffee, the presence of a friend, the blessing of having a new cake of soap or an hour without pain. Such humble experience is the stuff that many of the very best stories are made of. If we think we have no stories it is because we have not paid enough attention to our lives. Most of us live lives that are far richer and more meaningful than we appreciate.

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.

Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

I will never make a film where zombies are threatening to take over the planet.

We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.

When I wrote "Lead Me," I had no idea that God was preparing me to lead my family through a season of great adversity. It was only a month after Pieces of a Real Heart was released that my wife, Sarah, and I found out that our son had a severe, life-threatening heart defect.

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

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

Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.

In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form.

When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position.

It's not my style of play to mark players and stop them, or be threatening. But I am learning that at Chelsea.

In the past, people didn't necessarily want their king to be kind. If a foreign power was threatening the country, they wanted him to fight.

There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will she make?

Ideas that change business models and that can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.

There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.

Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

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

Clary's mother apparently reguarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come... Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

I voice my opinions on social media and I have people threatening me with violence. It is troubling but I can fight back, which is good.

Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.

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

I was in awe of my older brother, but he was also quite a threatening figure - he used to beat me up.

[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, as directly political, medical abuse of human rights. The mutilation of healthy bodies and the subjection of such bodies to dangerous and life-threatening continuing treatment violates such people's rights to live with dignity in the body into which they were born.

You'll find people less threatening if you hear what they're needing rather than what they're thinking about you.

It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

I had to beat him up in front of everybody for threatening me.

The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.

Our dependency on oil continually creates security risks. Most threatening of all is the specter of uncontrolled climate change.

I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle.

Tempus would be protected, better shielded from whatever the Stepson thought threatening, if love could heal and save.