#threat

You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire threat. Yet, in the face of evil, to sit silent is an even greater evil. Complacency is ever the enabler of darkest deeds; ↗

— Robert Fanney

#courage #enablement #evil #fantasy #fight

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#acceptance #audience #become #certain #day-in

When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you" - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for his bar mitzvah should be thinking. When 1:55 came and the other half of the class left, Meryl Lee whispered, "If she gives you one after we leave, I'm going to do Number 408 to you." I didn't remember what Number 408 was, but it was probably pretty close to what Danny Hupfer had promised. Even Mai Thi looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, "I know your home." Which sounded pretty ominous. ↗

— Gary D. Schmidt

#humor #ominous #threat #worry #humor

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#better #certain #death #episode #every

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#ideals #incredible #men #prepared #their

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#black #definitions #man #power #refuses

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#always #classes #could #course #dance

Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#before #begin #blood #genetic #health

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

— Bashar al-Assad

#attack #does #even #expect #israeli

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#beauty #become #exposes #face #features