#threatening

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#because #carrying #competent #conviction #eccentric

While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance. ↗

— William Dampier

#distance #followed #great #hill #last

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#each #humanity #itself #live #most

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government. ↗

— Zoe Lofgren

#constitutional #election #government #meets #only

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

We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses. ↗

— Fred Upton

#businesses #cannot #continued #economic #economic growth

Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too? ↗

— David Hunt

#already #everyday #everything #firemen #help

Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over. ↗

— Jonathan Bennett

#fighting #guys #other #over #threatening

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#ago #caused #cute #died #ever