Quotations
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. FreePaperz now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
threat
«Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat»
Author: Iris Chang
| Keywords:
allows, banal, Human nature, occur, pose, posed, poses, posing, provided, threat, unspeakable
«Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.»
Author: Madeleine Albright
| Keywords:
allies, biological, chemical, chemicals, rogue, the US, threat
«People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.»
«It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.»
Author: Sandra Day O'Conner
| About:
Liberty,
Religion
| Keywords:
discern, religious liberty, thoughtful, threat
«I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.»
«The sound shivers through the walls, through the table, through the window frame, and into my finger. These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
absorbed, absorbs, atrophied, atrophies, atrophy, awake, backward, bad hat, big brother, brother, dancing, distracted, distracting, distraction, distractions, distracts, elder brother, Fed, filling, finger, focus, frame, frames, framing, fully, George, George I, George Orwell, hat, holding, I frame, of sound mind, Orwell, pulling, rabbits, rabbit on, shiver, shivering, shivers, singing, table, the George, The Sound, the threat of, threat, walls, watched, watching, window, window frame
«Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
argued, confronting, crucial, detract, detracting, detracts, posed, The War, threat, to the contrary
«I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
another planet, Gorbachev, meetings, Mr Gorbachev, once and for all, planet, planet Earth, suddenly, threat
«I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Justice
| Keywords:
innate, moral sense, sense of hearing, the threat of, threat