Best promise & threat Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.”

World Values Security Involved Promise Threat International Ships Around The World Resolve Cooperation Navy Aircraft Demonstrating Tactical Maritime

Author:John C. Stennis

“A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.”

Women Promise Consequence Threat

Author:Amy Dickinson

“Pay 2 Play vividly tells the story of the threat posed to our political process by big money interests and what we can do to fight back to defend our Republic. This is a must-see movie for anyone who cares about the cause of democracy and the promise of political equality for all.”

Play Stories Bigs Care Political Fighting Causes Process Interest Can Do Pay Democracy Promise Threat Republic Who Cares Equality For All Political Equality

Author:John Bonifaz

“There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.”

Way Whole Evil Subjects Promise Threat Connected Ridicule

Book:Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

“Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.”

Ifs Needs Hurt Pay Ready Promise Threat Credit It Hurts Convenient

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.”

Want Problem Government Jobs Poverty Politician Promise Threat Cancer Solve Unemployment Bureaucracy No Problem Solved Problems

Author:L. Neil Smith

“it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.”

Morality Promise Threat Terror Useless Hypocrisy Idle Fanaticism Dogmatism Mischievous

Book:A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum

Source: A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum

“The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are lured with promises of pie in the sky and simultaneously terrorized by the threats of extreme nastiness in the eternal afterlife in hell.”

People Hell Sky Promise Eternal Capable Threat Extremes Afterlife Cynical Pie Premises Nastiness

Author:Barbara G. Walker

“Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.”

Today Magic Promise Threat Usual Competitors Stagnation Recorders Turbulence Vcr

Author:Richard Corliss

“Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.”

Ifs Would Be Promise Future Threat Another Life

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.”

People World Humans Jobs Pay Violence Promise Slavery Threat Tricks Around The World Good Job Good Education False Promises

Author:Lisa Kristine

“Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending for and against political candidates, as well as promises and threats of such spending to bribe and blackmail such candidates, by appeal to the free-speech clause of the First Amendment.”

“Donald Trump's campaign is as divisive as any we have seen in our lifetimes. It is built on stoking mistrust and pitting American against American. It`s there in everything he says and everything he promises to do as president. This man is the nominee of the Party of Abraham Lincoln. We are watching it become the party of Trump. And that`s not just a huge loss for our democracy. It is a threat to it, because Donald Trump`s campaign adds up to an ugly, dangerous message to America.”

Men President Loss Party Democracy Dangerous Promise Threat Lifetime Ugly Mistrust

Author:Hillary Clinton

“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”

Literature Promise Future Threat Switching Kept Promises Invisible Monsters Promise Of The Future

Book:Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.”

Ifs Thinking Helping Girl Promise Weapons Threat I Promise Straws Mattresses

Book:Stravaganza: City of Masks

Source: Stravaganza: City of Masks

“Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.”

Moments Water Taken Air Tomorrow Promise Paper Threat Boat Floats Ankles Licking

Author:Thrity Umrigar

“...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.”

Ifs Forever Promise Threat Slogans

Book:The Lonely Polygamist

Source: The Lonely Polygamist

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