#threatened

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. ↗

— George Chapman

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Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt. ↗

— Roscoe Conkling

#bureaus #candidate #committees #effort #favor

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#father #me #mother #protected #threatened

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened. ↗

— Liam Fox

#britain #broken #country #education #global

But I really believe it is in America's interest as well as that of the free world more generally to stop Iran from getting its hands on nuclear weapons. This regime has threatened to wipe Israel off the map and bring about a world without America, and either of those is a really bad prospect. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#america #bad #believe #bring #either

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#conventional #electronica #music #people #play

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships. ↗

— Laura Linney

#fight #instinctive #life #relationships #threatened

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#biodiversity #change #climate #climate change #dependence

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#did #doing #episodes #first #had

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime. ↗

— Thomas Menino

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