#threaten

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#also #beautiful #been #being #book

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#anything #creates #favor #i #israel

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#england #even #gates #hath #here

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them. ↗

— John Sutter

#around #attack #began #campaigns #cattle

I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#anybody #become #decided #died #everybody

Change is not threatening. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#threatening

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#education #health #illegal #inappropriate #involving

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#among #away #europe #happened #ii

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#kill #only #threatens #worth #writing

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ↗

— John Lancaster Spalding

#disturbed #more #than #threatens #us