Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences. - John Stuart Mill
If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation? - Steven Wright
Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr. - Marc Cooper
Injustice coupled with racism is a highly explosive mixture, in which the world, threatens to suffocate. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I've always known that even if the world threatens to collapse, with one hand, you'd hold up the sky, and the other, around me. - Xue Yun
Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future. - Auliq Ice
There is no hate without fear [...]. Hate is fear crystallized, fear objectified. We hate what threatens our selves, our dreams, our plans, our freedom, our place in the world, our place in the hearts of the people we love. We fear first. Then we hate. - Paulina Simons
I've learned that if someone threatens my peace of mind, self-respect, or self-worth... I must walk away. I owe it to myself... I owe it to my future. - Steve Maraboli
Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground. - Faraaz Kazi
I think ‘slow writing’ is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the ‘slow food’ movement. Anxiety and panic are counterproductive to the creative process. - Rosaleen Love
When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them. - Matshona Dhliwayo