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“In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.”

Years Three Successful Progress Citizens Election Iraq Three Years Immense Threatened

Author:John Linder

“Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.”

Feels Faces Teacher Criticism Bitter Threatened

Author:Stephen Mitchell

“Iran is the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East. Iran remains the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, continues its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and has directly threatened the existence of Israel and the United States.”

World States United Effort Existence United States Middle Weapons Remains Threat Israel Terrorism East Nuclear Iran Stability Middle East Nuclear Weapons Threatened Sponsors

Author:James Inhofe

“I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people.”

People Feels Should Believe I Believe Goal Terrorist Secure Threatened Free Society

Author:Ron Paul

“The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.”

Giving Feels Littles Country Enemy Military Weapons Bases Medicine Nuclear Our Country Nuclear Weapons Threatened Doing Nothing Missiles Military Bases

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.”

Should States United Effort United States Protect Presses Threatened Freedom Of The Press

Author:Elliott Abrams

“To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.”

Important Negative Sacred Valuable All Time Instant Threatened Being Positive

Author:Kurt Cobain

“I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble.”

Ifs Thinking Way Years Two Bigs America Democracy Trouble Hundred Threatened

Author:Rosie O'Donnell

“People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.”

People Way Feels Hollywood Islam Traditional Radical Threatened Hollywood Movies Radical Islam Kfc

Author:Franklin Foer

“[Mikhail] Saakashvili will use all legal and illegal means possible to remain in power. People are being threatened to prevent them from collaborating with the opposition. At the same time, he is terrorizing the business world, which prevents the opposition from gaining any funding.”

People World Mean Use Opposition Illegal Threatened Funding Business World Collaborating

Author:Irakli Okruashvili

“We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a species is threatened by global warming, economic meltdown, and an ever-increasing gap between rich and poor. Yet these threats offer an opportunity to awaken as an interconnected and beloved community.”

“I threw a strop one day and threatened to walk to Budleigh Salterton.”

Walks One Day Threatened

Book:Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years

Source: Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years

“Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.”

“Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that one day I would send him a big bill for what we did. But, seriously, Iran is pursuing a dual strategy in Iraq. On the one hand, the Iranians, after decades of hostility, are now interested in good relations. On the other hand, they want to keep the country weak and dominate the region.”

“A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.”

Feels Doe Self Strong Self Esteem Healthy Ego Innocent Esteem Plenty Threatened Remarks

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

“If any harm is to come to Turkey's border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened, it is prepared for any eventuality. We will take the necessary measures to reduce the risks related to cross-border security.”

Ifs Peace Risk Security Garden Crosses Prepared Harm Conclusion Borders Related Threatened Turkeys Border Security

Author:Ahmet Davutoglu

“Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.”

Hell Solitude Threatened Torment

Author:John Donne

“One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.”

Knows Feelings Majors Strikes Sensations Threatened Petty Shortcomings Vindictive Strike Back

Author:Andy Rooney

“People are selfish. But they can also be compassionate and generous, and they care about the country. But not when they feel threatened. That’s why this is such a crucial time. We can go in either direction. But if we don’t make a choice soon, it will be too late to turn things around. I think people are willing to make the right choice. But they need leadership. They’re hungry for leadership.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Country Care Turns Choices Willing Late Selfish Hungry Generous Too Late Crucial Compassionate Threatened Right Choices Make The Right Choice

Author:Robert Kennedy

“Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.”

Feels Bigs Government Interest Doubt Groups Special Resources Organization Casts Threatened Special Interests Multinationals Doubt And Fear

Author:Arlo Guthrie

“If you're not comfortable with a strong woman you're not comfortable with your own feminine instincts. You're not comfortable, period. You're going to be threatened by everything that's not exactly like you are ... and that is the measure any man.”

Ifs Men Strong Like You Periods Comfortable Instinct Feminine Strong Women Threatened

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“It used to be that your rights were infringed upon if the government punished or threatened you for expressing your sincerest beliefs. Now, your rights are infringed upon if you want something but someone refuses to buy it for you.”

Ifs Want Government Used Belief Rights Refuse Used To Be Threatened Want Something

Author:Matt Walsh

“I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.”

Source: Up'til Now: A Memoria

“Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibility. Once he pulled a switchblade and threatened to murder his director. I imitated his style in art and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble.”

Art Artist Actors Saws Trouble Style Directors Murder Originals Sensibility Threatened Restriction Jimmy Dean Guerrillas

Author:Dennis Hopper

“If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.”

“In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.”

Age Desire Church Exercise Importance Bounds Doctrine Restraint Threatened Heresy Heretic

Author:R. C. Sproul

“I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.”

Thinking Knows Wells Made Stories Cities New York One Day And Love Affair Sunset Los Angeles New York City Apartment Threatened Love Affair Burlesque

Author:Steve Antin

“When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.”

Knows Rights Threatened

Author:Christopher Dodd

“Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade between individuals or nations, you must realize that your standard of living is being lowered as a result.”

Way Government Individual Nations Realizing Results Industry Standards Trade Barriers Interfere Threatened Standards Of Living Free Trade Subsidies Tariffs

Author:John Pugsley

“We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.”

Integrity Constitution Assumption Threatened Bailouts

Author:David Limbaugh

“The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Threatened Crushed

Author:Imogen Poots

“I think the most honest responses to the movies you get to watch are in houses and people's most private spaces, like the bedroom or in your own intimate space. I think that's where you feel safest, so when you're threatened in the place you feel safest, it makes for the scariest situations.”

People Thinking Feels House Space Situation Watches Honest Response Intimate Bedroom Threatened

Author:Jason Blum

“Solidarity is the fundamental idea of European cooperation. If a country feels itself to be militarily threatened and calls for soldiers, weapons and sanctions, then that's what it gets. When governments say they need money from the structural funds to stabilize their economy, that's what they get. But you can't cherry pick solidarity.”

Ifs Needs Feels Ideas Country Government Economy Weapons Picks Fundamentals Soldier Fund Cooperation Solidarity Threatened Sanctions Cherries Need Money

Author:Martin Schulz

“The quota idea is a good one, but there are two problems with it. The first is clear: A quota system would also require all European countries to be prepared to take refugees. And secondly: What happens when the quota has been filled? Would we then simply tell those who are threatened, sorry but we have to send you back?”

Firsts Has Beens Two Ideas Country Problem Happens Clear Filled Prepared Sorry Be Prepared Threatened Refugee European Countries Quota

Author:Martin Schulz

“It was a Russian airplane that was bombed over the Sinai Peninsula. When the Russians conduct air strikes on IS, they are doing so because they too are threatened by terror.”

Air Terror Strikes Airplane Threatened Sinai Peninsulas

Author:Martin Schulz

“I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.”

Heart Felt Sea Threatened Royal High Seas

Book:Lyrical and Critical Essays

Source: Lyrical and Critical Essays

“When somebody comes to your front door, and they're screaming obscenities at you and telling you to come outside, and you've had your life threatened several times, you take it pretty seriously. It's the reason I have a Rottweiler.”

Reason Doors Fronts Threatened Front Doors Obscenity Rottweilers

Author:Willie Aames

“I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.”

People Thinking Way Feels I Can Sometimes Issues Angry Threatened Because I Can Make Me Angry

Author:Klaus Nomi

“Inflationary trends are under way. Wage increases, through strikes or threatened strikes, are rampant. Government expenditures are ballooning ominously. Hoarding has contributed unconscionably to price-boosting. The Government should institute measures calculated to arrest inflation. America's commitments are already so mountainous, international and domestic, that the pruning knife should be applied. You and I, all American taxpayers, don't possess limitless resources-our pockets are not bottomless. Curb inflation at every turn!”

“Most people will not stand up to injustice unless their comfort of living is severely threatened. This is because today's man does not care for the outside world so long as he has a roof over his head and four walls to contain his own.”

People Men World Long Doe Care Today Four Wall Comfort Injustice Roof Threatened Outside World Four Walls

Author:Suzy Kassem

“We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.”

Democracy Ignorant Threatened Precipice

Author:Walter Cronkite

“We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.”

People Managers Employee Threatened

Author:Marc Andreessen

“Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.”

Lying Paid Conquer Compliment Threatened Persecution

Book:Opinions, Random Reflections, and Wayside Sayings

Source: Opinions, Random Reflections, and Wayside Sayings

“If Saddam's regime and survival are threatened [by invasion], he will have nothing to lose, and may use everything at his disposal... If weapons of mass destruction land on Israeli soil, killing innocent civilians, the experts I have consulted believe Israel will retaliate, and possibly with nuclear weapons... Nor can we rule out the possibility that Saddam would assault American forces with chemical or biological weapons.”

“When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.”

Way Feels Achieve Anxious Threatened Niche

Author:Nido R Qubein

“Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.”

Bigs Moving Focus Generations Activity Shadow Convinced Sunlight Threatened Tents

Author:Jesse Jackson

“A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the Bahamas in July. What happened to the good old days when a guy would just saw you in half?”

Guy Half Saws Happened Islands Threatened July Jury Old Days Investigating Good Old Days Allegations Bahamas Grand Jury

Author:Chelsea Handler

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