Top 551 Threaten Quotes & Sayings

When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.

Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

I do not threaten, I merely advise caution.

Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.

What makes us threaten the things we want most?

One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you.

Even if you're not enjoying the flight, it's futile to threaten to get out and walk.

If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?

I like to have a team environment where I can go anywhere and not threaten management.

I just don't see where Chris Weidman is going to threaten me. He's a tough guy, but I'm better on my feet, better on the ground. He's not going to threaten me with his wrestling.

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick.

From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.

No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

I have to be very aware of the increasing downside risks that threaten the overall global situation.

Those who threaten Israel threaten us. Israel has always faced these threats on the frontlines. And I will bring to the White House an unshakable commitment to Israel's security. That starts with insuring Israel's qualitative military advantage. I will insure that Israel can defend itself from any threat - from Gaza to Tehran.

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Threaten me, but don't threaten my wife or say something about my kids. It's just wrong.

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten to fly planes into skyscrapers. We never threaten suicide bombs. We are very gentle people. All we do is use words to talk about things like the cosmos, the origin of the universe, evolution, the origin of life. What's there to be frightened of? It's just an opinion.

What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. 'Deliverance' was on TV, and they don't really make movies like that anymore, just simple and scary. The truly scary thing is, 'I'm going to threaten your life, I'm going to threaten the people you love. What are you going to do about it?'

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

I'm not the kind of guy you threaten.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

People could be really horrible, you know? They would threaten my parents.

We will continue to hit those who threaten us.

Do not threaten the supreme gigantic overlords. We do as we please.

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

End results that work that don’t involve government threaten liberals.

If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.

You threaten my son, you threaten me.

The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.

I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.” - Jem Carstairs

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce." See Annabelle take control. He reached out, gently brushed his fingertip along her collarbone. "If it means saving your life, I'll do more than threaten you. I'll follow through. Best you realize that now, rather than cry foul later.

Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.

We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter.

It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy.

CO? emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

Have you ever thought that radical ideas threaten institutions, then become institutions, and in turn reject radical ideas which threaten institutions?

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.