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And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace ...
— Louisa May Alcott
Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.
— Mariella Frostrup
I knew I'd sounded bitter, but I didn't bend even when guilt threatened to throttle me with its bony fingers. I hope it was worth it, Mom.
— Megan Hart
Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.
— Caitlin Stasey
Panic threatened but was beaten into submission by her will to live. Elena P. Deveraux had never given up yet. Gritting
— Nalini Singh
When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.
— Elliott Abrams
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
— Seth MacFarlane
Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.
— Barack Obama
If you know yourself and don't have a belief that other people are better than you, then you simply can't feel jealous or threatened.
— Roberto Hogue
Part of him screamed to walk away, and another part of him couldn't walk away if the devil himself threatened to kick his ass.
— Lisa Kessler
The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.
— Frederick Lenz
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
A man of quality is not threatened by a woman with tofu.
— Elliot Katz
People living on atolls like Tuvalu are among the world's most threatened populations.
— Enele Sopoaga
Men in authority are now a threatened minority.
— Ilana Mercer
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James Baldwin
Our faith often grows stronger when we have to defend our beliefs, the same way that patriotism flowers and blooms when our country is threatened.
— Lynn Austin
They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did.
— Cheryl Strayed
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
— Laura Linney
Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.
— Stephen Mitchell
She felt a budding loneliness, and with it came the familiar emptiness that once threatened to swallow her whole.
— Sarah McCoy
mission as overkill, which threatened to derail the entire operation. Just before the launch of the operation
— Marc Ambinder
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
— George D. Prentice
Everyone wanted security, but first they wanted to feel more threatened.
— Goncalo M. Tavares
But then they threatened Ryan with death and I was, like, bitch, please. You don't know who you're messing with.
— T.J. Klune
Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
It's very intimidating to be photographed, but if I kneel down and chat with you, so you're looking down at me, it makes you feel less threatened.
— Platon
I, for one, am exhausted. I've been threatened, beaten, bitten and killed, and that was just in the last hour. (Jericho)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
If Russia's interests and security are threatened, Russia will resist. Everyone needs to know that.
— Vladimir Putin
Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
— William S. Burroughs
The tears that rushed to my eyes threatened to spill forth and I was seconds from crying as if I'd watched a marathon of Hallmark movies.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
— Sandra Bernhard
People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.
— Unita Blackwell
I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria," I threatened. "I hope you like elephant polo."
-Liberty Jones — Lisa Kleypas
-Liberty Jones — Lisa Kleypas
I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
— Barry McGuigan
The 'institution of marriage' is being threatened - by people getting married? Huh?
— Christina Engela
Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide ... And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.
— Faina Ranevskaya
Derision is the refuge of threatened ignorance, after all.
— Stephen R. Lawhead
Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality
— Thomas Jefferson
You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.
— Robin Sacredfire
I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.
— Wilbur Smith
He chanced a look at her and saw the flare of something in her eyes. A salve to the emptiness that sometimes threatened to suffocate him.
— Melina Marchetta
Hogwarts is threatened!" shouted Professor McGonagall. "Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!
— J.K. Rowling
There are more men threatned then stricken.
[There are more men threatened than stricken.] — George Herbert
[There are more men threatened than stricken.] — George Herbert
She needed care and time; enough space not to feel threatened, but not so much that she could retreat.
— Tami Hoag
Love is an emotion too often threatened by ennui to attain to the grand passion for which I have long since ceased to hope.
— Tatamkhulu Afrika
The world, no matter how monstrously it may be threatened, has never been known to succumb entirely.
— Lemony Snicket
With an evil, tempting wink that threatened to undo him, she added, I'm the one you have to watch out for.
— Aria Kane
The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.
— Stephen M. Walt
I threatened to kung fu you. Oh my God.
— Jill Shalvis
You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
— Warren Buffett
An all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction - indeed, in some sense was the destruction - of a hierarchical society. In
— George Orwell
Oh, justice is what you're threatened with.
— Thomas Cromwell
Gilbert, as a rule, used money the way women use pepper spray; he liked having some handy but only produced it when physically threatened.
— Joe Keenan
People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land.
— Michael Pollan
I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park.
— Tom Marino
Sometimes, when outrage begat outrage with enough frequency, it threatened the fabric of the universe, and the universe pushed back.
— Dennis Lehane
To a greater or lesser extent, everybody's always being ordered and threatened and pushed around. There may not be anything better we could hope for.
— Haruki Murakami
I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.
— Paul Haggis
Threatened men live long.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.
— Hideki Tojo
What kind of prick threatened a child?
A dead one. — Eve Langlais
A dead one. — Eve Langlais
So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age.
— George Sheehan
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
— Mignon McLaughlin
added because it was the polite thing to do. "I'm going home," Cricket insisted as if Anna had threatened to drag her bodily back into the
— Nevada Barr
If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?
— Rob Bell
The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.
— Virginia Woolf
I am threatened by the resolve that you are my soul. You are my being, you are every breath I take, you are my home, you are my sweet sin.
— Cassandra Giovanni
A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.
— Jill Briscoe
Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened ...
— Ntozake Shange
[Israel] is our ally and in that we've made a very strong commitment to support Israel, we will support Israel if her security is threatened.
— George W. Bush
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
— Andrew Vachss
That the world should be filled with such detail, such tiny points of human frailty, threatened to crush her and she had to look away.
— Ian McEwan
Even if you are threatened with death, look at your situation right in the eye and praise the Lord
— Sunday Adelaja
Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.
— Martin Seligman
Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.
— Perry Brass
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.
— Deepak Chopra
In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
— Jonathan Sacks
They must be cool but determined ... he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
— David McCullough
I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
— Albert Camus