Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

- Joaquin Phoenix

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

- Stephen M. Walt

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

- Steven Spielberg

I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

- Rafik Hariri

First of all it has never been the case that I have threatened people with expulsion or that I've threatened to throw people out of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

- Ron Davies

It's very intimidating to be photographed, but if I kneel down and chat with you, so you're looking down at me, it makes you feel less threatened.

- Platon

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

- Paul Theroux

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

- Mitch Albom

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

- Menachem Begin

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.

- John Pomfret

I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

- Allison Janney

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

- Ivanka Trump

The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.

- Hans Blix

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

- George Chapman

In 2012, Hillary Clinton's State Department, acting through its ambassador, Mari Carmen Aponte, threatened to withhold critical development aid unless El Salvador passed a major privatization law.

- Greg Grandin

I am not made to be pulled into the public as a person. I feel threatened there.

- Elfriede Jelinek

I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.

- Elayne Boosler

Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do.

- Calvin Klein

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

- Bill Laswell

When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling.

- Bruno Tonioli