#threaten

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships. ↗

— Laura Linney

#fight #instinctive #life #relationships #threatened

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#biodiversity #change #climate #climate change #dependence

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#backward #edge #faith #fall #forward

The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine. ↗

— Walter Martin

#may #medicine #now #soul #success

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#did #doing #episodes #first #had

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#city #community #crime #established #fighting

The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#because #every #finals #moment #off

The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#continual #continually #daily #disease #elements

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#great #in the past #only #past #people

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#because #brands #care #get #i