#threatening

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#clocks #covering #earth #endangering #evolution

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure. ↗

— Jim Doyle

#child #conscience #cure #disease #family

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#demonize #maintain #need #order #others

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. ↗

— Craig Raine

#arrive #diseases #great #impatient #irresistible

Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it. ↗

— Alice S. Rossi

#challenging #conventional #dislike #disturbed #does

Those who are made can be unmade. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#life-lessons #made #threatening #life

They told me that I had a leaky valve, which is something that is certainly not life-threatening. It's common and it's something that had I not known about it, would I have lived? Sure. But it's something that I think is important to know, especially as I get older and given that I have heart disease in my family. ↗

— Jennie Garth

#certainly #common #disease #especially #family

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#aspects #being #challenge #continue #countryside

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#danger #greatest #greatest danger #hatred #mankind

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#appear #bank #courts #declare #gesture