all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.
Power people are generally threatened by authority people.
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
. . . my sanity threatened to take a holiday without me.
I threatened to kung fu you. Oh my God.
America has had to deal with eccentric dictators in the past: Idi Amin, Muammar Qaddafi, Ming the Merciless. . . but now the security of the world is threatened by Kim Jong-il, a nerdy, pompadoured, platform shoe-wearer who looks like something you'd put on the end of your child's pencil.
When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.
If Sasha’s threatened, Astrid’s upset. If Astrid’s upset, I’m going to kill whatever’s upsetting her until she’s happy again. (Zarek)
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.
In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each bull has a different querencia, but as the bullfight continues, and the animal becomes more threatened, it returns more and more often to his spot. As he returns to his querencia, he becomes more predictable. And so, in the end, the matador is able to kill the bull because in.
Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.
When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling.
If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.
The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party.
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat.
TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.