The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect. - Gary Haugen
In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us. - John Kuypers
Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that’s because it is the most threatening to those in power. - Eric Metaxas
Even the most dangerous look less threatening when they are dead. - Laura Moncur
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us. - Barack Obama
Like the shadow of deathThe residue of heartbreakAlways lingers in the backgroundWith its darkness threatening to consume you - Nomzamo Nhlumayo
Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime. - Miya Yamanouchi
You want to change? Lose the bitch. Be nicer to people. Stop telling them to "bite you" and threatening to kick them until they're dead. - Jen Lancaster
Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. - Charles Spencer
Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind. - Kim J. Vicente
My therapist and I even have a joke about it: shit is truly fucked up when I start threatening to take a road trip. - Chris Gethard
When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically they were raised. - Stefan Molyneux
No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host. - Tiffany Madison
It was as if the rare joy that had formed in my heart was replaced by a pale shadow threatening to engulf me at that very moment. Victory didn’t matter now. She did! - Faraaz Kazi
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. - King Whitney Jr.
Time' is the most threatening four letter word. - Jennifer Elisabeth
Being one’s true and honest self can often be dangerous; and poetry should always be a place where, if only between the pages, that danger and energy and fear and excitement and love can fizz and spark without ever threatening to burn something down. - Andrew McMillan
After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally. - Wendy Shalit
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us. - Barack Obama