When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one...

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

Death whispers your name to me.

Unless I’m at a wedding, I don’t like veiled threats.

I’m going to fuck you up until your mother bleeds.

I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,Thy knotted and combined locks to part,And each particular hair to...

Have my moments, Doll, have my moments.

Or ever will. But that is a suggestion, and one you are free to disregard at your own peril. But you are are going to answer my question.

Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been true; but religion has murdered millions for doubting or denying her dogmas and...

By heaven, I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me.

The spirit of the law is the least of the things we’re prepared to violate.

I think it would be best if you came down from there before I explained that.””I think I’ll stay right where I am, thank you,” I said. “And you, you stay where you are, or...

With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.

And if I see you step foot on my property again, I’ll do more than make a phone call,” he says, waving the baseball bat around menacingly.

You don’t get it boy… this isn’t a mudhole… its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I’m the surgeon.

Hekate smacked the mirror down. “I’d never fancy you,” she retorted to Hermes. “And if you ever try to kiss me, I’ll–I’ll keep a snake hidden in my clothes and make it bite you. On...

I mean you ACRES of harm,’ Dalrymple growled. ‘Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through.

I closed the door and sank into my desk chair. My heart was pounding even harder. I felt like someone who had just staggered out of her car after an accident on a freeway. This...

Then come. Let me send you to see if you have lived your life serving a deity or a dream.

Or at least half price.” And he was gone again.

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

If you want some advice—which I’m sure you don’t—you guys should lay off on the magic. Christian still thinks you’re moving in on Lissa.””What?” he asked in mock astonishment. “Doesn’t he know my heart belongs...

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

Your death rides a fast camel.

I looked at him. “You really need to work on your threats. I can’t tell if you’re threatening me or inviting me for tea.

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

There are two kinds of idiots – those who don’t take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

I used to pray you know, pray to God that He would somehow stop it. All the nights of listening to my mother scream and things breaking. Of holding my brother and sister and listening...

His fingers gouged into my leg harder. “My sister was in that cafeteria,” he said. “She saw her friends die, thanks to you and that puke boyfriend of yours. She still has nightmares about it....

When we begin to see our differences as opportunities rather than threats, then we can work together.

Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.

If you expose what it is that we’re doing, if you inform your fellow citizens about all the things that we’re doing in the dark, we will destroy you. This is what their spate of...

Dr. Bone Specialist came in, made me stand up and hobble across the room, checked my reflexes, and then made me lie down on the table. He bent my right knee this way and that,...

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

The door closed behind her (Phoebe), and the two men regarded each other for a moment. Viktor spoke first. “I must have your promise, Coach, that you won’t hurt her.” Dan: “I won’t.” Viktor: “You...

Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.

Bye!” she yells.I grab her arm. I could yell at her for wanting to leave, but I don’t. She pulls her arm out of my grasp. I look up to see if anyone is watching...