#intimidation

A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man. ↗

— Leonard Ravenhill

#faith #fear #intimidation #courage

He poked his finger into my chest again. “Well, I have something to tell you: don’t let the sun set on you in this county, because…” I grabbed his wrist and yanked him forward, tripping him with my foot. He went down back first and I caught him by his throat, three feet above the ground, lifted him up a bit and bent down to his face. My eyes glowed with murderous red. My voice turned rough with an animal growl. “Listen well, because I won’t be repeating myself, you racist prick. If you make any trouble for me or my people, I’ll hunt you down like the pig you are and carve a second mouth across your gut. They’ll find you hanging by your own intestines. The next time you hear something laugh and howl in the night, hug your family, because you won’t see the sunrise.” I opened my fingers. He crashed on the ground, his face white as a sheet. He scrambled backward, rolled to his feet, and took off. The three shapeshifters stared at me, openmouthed. “That’s how you intimidate people. No witnesses and not a mark on him. Get your asses to the car. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#family

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#ambition #democracy #egalitarianism #equality #essence

It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#threat #children

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #creativity #disagreeable #envy #intimidating

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#excruciating #felt #had #i #intimidation

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#intervention #intimidation #judges #must #political

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#control #days #drill #greatest #had

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#challenging #confronted #considerable #corruption #cost

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ↗

— Jane Austen

#dignity #elizabeth-bennet #empowerment #fear #independence