#threatened

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#barbra streisand #beatles #bruce #bruce springsteen #just

The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#because #every #finals #moment #off

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#child #constituency #does #exist #politician

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions. ↗

— John Pomfret

#had #i #life #my life #numerous

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#because #class #danger #deep #deep desire

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened. ↗

— Stephen M. Walt

#deterrent #fact #feel #kind #makes

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#deny #disaster #how #insecure #least

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness. ↗

— Richard Simmons

#because #being #blood #blood pressure #children

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#channels #dangers #embarrassing #nation #perhaps