People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient.
The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.
In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.
The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.
When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.
The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.
Ron Carlisle: I'm afraid you're not right for this role. Thanks for coming by. Dorothy Michaels: Why am I not right, Mister Carlisle? Ron Carlisle: I'm trying to make a certain statement and I'm looking for a specific physical type. Dorothy Michaels:...
There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?
"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly." "really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?
As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude...Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itselfe. -DONNE
Shane felt a jolt of heat, a desire that threatened to overwhelm rational thought. And perhaps for the moment that was all right.
I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.
