Threatening

Famous quotes containing the word threatening:

“Spain is an overflow of sombreness ... a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.”
—Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)

“The Wind begun to rock the Grass
With threatening Tunes and low—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.”
—Alice S. Rossi (b. 1922)