#threatened

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

— George Chapman

#englishman #flattered #lamb #lion #threatened

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

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

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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

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#avoid #desire #every #evil #hard

When Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio cracked down on illegal immigration without getting permission from Obama, they threatened to revoke his 287(g) status. When Sheriff Joe refused to balk, they filed suit against him with a frivolous civil rights claim. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#arizona #balk #civil #civil rights #claim

Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do. ↗

— Calvin Klein

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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#debate #demonize #disagree #feel #framing

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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