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Don`t threaten me with love, baby. Let`s just go walking in the rain.

- Billie Holiday

Don`t threaten me with love, baby.

- Billie Holiday

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn`t like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

- Joni Mitchell

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn`t threaten us.

- David Mamet

If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.

- Fidel Castro

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

- John McCain

This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law.

- John Boehner

We have always been strongly opposed to anything that would threaten the separate identities of the British football associations and that has not and will not change. The present set-up has been around, in our case, since 1873 and we have separate privileges within FIFA and UEFA. From a football perspective, that is more important than participation in an Olympic Games.

- David Taylor

Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.

- Bob Woodward

These are serious allegations that involve the use of a computer to threaten and intimidate these students and one of their mothers by continually subjecting them to violent and sexually explicit messages that had them in fear for their safety,

- Thomas Reilly

Go after a man`s weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you`re going to follow through, because if you don`t, the next time you won`t be taken seriously.

- Roy M. Cohn

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

- Sitting Bull

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

- Aislinn Ryan

Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.

- Al Siebert

Indeed Saddam`s goals have little in common with the terrorists who threaten us, and there is little incentive for him to make common cause with them.

- Alain de Vogue

And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn`t taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

- Alan Reid

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

- Alex Hamilton

I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.

- Alex Noble

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

- Alfred DeMaria

Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don`t know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they`re not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.

- Alice McGrew

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

- Allison Sharp

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

- Amanda Baughman

Since other countries and terrorist organizations are working to secure information that could threaten national security, more funding is provided in the bill to increase counter-intelligence activities.

- Andre Godin

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

- Andrew Stuckey

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

- Andy Spears

They threaten to indict you in order to get you to testify consistently with their notion of the facts against the target they want. If you do, your life can continue. If you tell the truth, and stand on your moral conviction, you get indicted.

- Ann DiPierro

We must not be frightened nor cajoled/ into accepting evil as deliverance from evil./ We must go on struggling to be human,/ though monsters of abstractions/ police and threaten us.

- Ann Fandozzi

Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won`t attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling.

- Arhan Ayalon

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

- Elbert Hubbard

Threaten the oppressed and be prepared to face their onslaught, abuse them and be prepared for an even greater threat.

- Martin Dansky

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

- Paul Valery