#threat

This never happens again," I said quietly. "You try to get to me through other mortals again and I'll kill you." Mavra's rotted lips turned up at one corner. "No, you won't," she said in her dusty voice. "You don't have that kind of power." "I can get it," I said. "But you won't," she responded, mockery in her tone. "It wouldn't be right." I stared at her for a full ten seconds before I said, in a very quiet voice, "I've got a fallen angel tripping all over herself to give me more power. Queen Mab has asked me to take the mantle of Winter Knight twice now. I've read Kemmler's book. I know how the Darkhallow works. And I know how to turn necromancy against the Black Court." Mavra's filmed eyes flashed with anger. I continued to speak quietly, never raising my voice. "So once again, let me be perfectly clear. If anything happens to Murphy and I even think you had a hand in it, fuck right and wrong. If you touch her, I'm declaring war on you. Personally. I'm picking up every weapon I can get. And I'm using them to kill you. Horribly. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#threat #anger

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. ↗

— David Hewson

#threat #vanity #men

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#catch #happened #monk #more #original

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#original thing #quo #say #sort #status

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time. ↗

— Mary Leakey

#glance #human #intensely #irregularity #left

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#cease #clinton #despicable #did #him

We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration. ↗

— John Negroponte

#been #believe #close #consideration #explicit

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#difficult #discern #liberty #religious #religious liberty

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#carefully #child #children #concept #death

Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#countries #economic #itself #political #presented