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1. “Death ready stands to interpose his dart.”

John Milton

Death, Mortality, Threat, Inevitability, Human Vulnerability

2. “If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Loyalty, Friendship, Threat, Protection, Sherlock Holmes

3. “I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Threat, Malice, Personal Vendetta, Dramatic Statement, Antagonism

4. “And anyway most people are idiots. They don't care about the why. They only care about what threatens them.”

Orson Scott Card

Cynicism, Intelligence, Threat, Understanding, Human Nature, Social Criticism

5. “Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?”

Orson Scott Card

Authority, Threat, Professionalism, Boundaries, Humor, Power Dynamics

6. “If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.”

Orson Scott Card

Threat, Violence, Self Defense, Humor, Graphic Language, Female Empowerment

7. “But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.”

E.M. Forster

Menace, Taverns, Society, Threat, Social Commentary, Hidden Dangers

8. “It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.”

Alexandre Dumas

Boy Promise, Girl Threat, Rare View, Promise, Threat, Rare

9. “He was absolutely, on this occasion, a living, detestable, dangerous presence.”

Henry James

Dangerous Presence, Living Threat, Presence, Threat, Living, Dangerous

10. “How could I sleight you? How threaten to leave you? not in the spirit of a Threat to you – no – but in the spirit of Wretchedness in myself.”

John Keats

Spirit Wretchedness, Threat Spirit, Leaving You, Wretchedness, Threat, Spirit

11. “Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.”

George R. R. Martin

Dangerous Allies, Treacherous Friends, Enemies Threat, Allies, Friends, Threat

12. “Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.”

Eckhart Tolle

Ego, Insecurity, Vulnerability, Threat, Self

13. “In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Branch Davidians, Government, Threat, History, Society

14. “Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I’ll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!”

Charles Dickens

Conflict, Threat, Anger, Action, Resolution

15. “I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

Warning, Revenge, Humor, Boredom, Threat

16. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Injustice, Justice, Threat, Unity, Awareness

17. “The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.”

Albert Einstein

Evil, Responsibility, Threat, Action, Tolerance

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