Threatening Us Quotes:

Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment.

- Judith Hayes

topic: Beautiful, Fear, Threatening Us, Awe Inspiring

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

- Al Gore

source: Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

topic: Threatening Us, Climate, Catastrophe, Improbable, Unprecedented

Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere they are at war with the forces threatening us and the planet.

- Rebecca Solnit

source: "2013 Will Be Year Zero In Our Climate Battle" by Rebecca Solnit, www.motherjones.com. December 31, 2012.

topic: War, Threatening Us, People

Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic front. I would like to know what it is they have in mind exactly: action by a fifth column, this disparate bunch of 'national traitors', or are they hoping to put us in a worsening social and economic situation so as to provoke public discontent? We consider such statements irresponsible and clearly aggressive in tone, and we will respond to them accordingly.

- Vladimir Putin

source: "Prince Charles is right: Similarites between Putin and Hitler are uncanny" by Trent Franks, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2014.

topic: Powerful, Threatening Us, Mind, Crimea

I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We're small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We're not a pushover.

- Kevin Hart

topic: Dog, Fighting, Threatening Us, Pushovers, Napoleon Complex

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

topic: Threatening Us, Office, Upset, Detention, Weasley

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

- Pema Chodron

topic: Fear, Struggle, Looks, Threatening Us