{"quotes":[{"text":"He ran as fast as he could, but the memories were fast too. He stumbled upon them and fell to the ground. The memories got up and stared into his eyes menacingly, they laughed harder and kept their foot on his neck. He choked and fought to breathe. He tried and failed to scream. They choked him hard until he suffered and died miserably inside.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["breathe","choke","death","eyes","laugh","memories","menace","miserable","neck","pain","run","stumble"],"id":4788,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.","author":"J.G. Ballard","tags":["description","menace","silence"],"id":9418,"author_id":"J.G.+Ballard"},{"text":"As with all new inventions, there are upsides and downsides. The commercial drone is no exception. But until robust safeguards have been introduced to protect personal privacy from prying eyes in the skies, the true benefits to society of unmanned aerial vehicles will remain unrealised.","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["advantages","aerial-drone","aerial-drones","aviation","beneficiaries","beneficiary","benefit","benefits","big-brother","big-brother-is-watching","civil-aviation-ity","civilian-drone","civilian-drones","commercial-drone","commercial-drones","cool-robotics","crowded-skies","disadvantages","diy-drones","downside","downsides","drone","drone-pilot","drone-pilots","drone-technology","drones","exception","exception-to-the-rule","faa","federal-aviation-administration","flying-robots","harassment","high-tech-surveillance","hobbyist-uav","intelligent-machines","introduce","introduced","introduction","intrusion","intrusive","invasion","invasion-of-privacy","invasive","invention","inventions","menace","new","new-inventions","no-exception","no-exceptions","novel","novel-ideas","nuisance","person","personal","personal-privacy","personal-property","personal-rights","persons","privacy","privacy-law","privacy-laws","privacy-legislation","privacy-problems","privacy-rights","protect","protected","protecting","protection","protective","pry","prying","prying-eyes","prying-eyes-in-the-skies","quadcopter","quotable","quotes","remotely-piloted-aircraft","remotely-piloted-vehicle","right-of-privacy","right-to-privacy","robot","robot-machinery","robot-vehicle","robotics","robust","robustness","rpa","rpa-s","rpv","rpv-s","safeguard","safeguarded","safeguarding","safeguards","smart-aerial-device","snoop","snooping","societal","society","society","spying","stalker","stalking","surveillance","surveillance-society","surveillance-state","surveillance-technology","technology","technology","technology","threats-to-privacy","true","true-benefits","truth","uav","uav-s","unmanned-aerial-vehicles","unmanned-aviation","unrealised","unrealized","unrealized-potential","upside","upsides"],"id":9953,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"},{"text":"People like you must create. If you don’t create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.","author":"Maria Semple","tags":["create","menace","where-d-you-go-bernadette"],"id":14344,"author_id":"Maria+Semple"},{"text":"Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["book","books","death","die","disappoint","disappointment","expectations","feelings","loss","menace","pages","reading","reading-books","reading-people","thoughts","words"],"id":103445,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"text":"How does one go on after doing such unspeakable things? It'sall rather simple, really,' he continued, speaking in someone else's voice. 'Say to yourself, 'What things?' And it becomes clear...You are blameless. They brought it on themselves. What have they ever done for you except control your life? They tore you away from your sister; they ripped you from your home. Did you ask to be saved? No! Forget them and start over...With us, your true family, my Corcitura, my own.","author":"Melika Dannese Lux","tags":["corcitura","hybrid-vampires","interior-struggle","menace","power-struggle","vampires","vladec-salei"],"id":113043,"author_id":"Melika+Dannese+Lux"},{"text":"Only when you are dangerous are you truly equal to the world.","author":"Daniel Hecht","tags":["danger","dangerous","menace","power"],"id":250547,"author_id":"Daniel+Hecht"},{"text":"It was male, of course; menace is always male. ('Nightmare').","author":"Cornell Woolrich","tags":["male","men","menace"],"id":260513,"author_id":"Cornell+Woolrich"},{"text":"But in this case,” he continues, tracing the line of the plasterwork with one finger, “I feel that there is one cliché that sums up my position so admirably that it would be pure egotism to attempt a more interesting periphrasis. Plain speaking, therefore, there is to be.“There is undoubtedly a strong possibility, notwithstanding the vagaries of contingency and misfortune, that my son mighthave fallen—or might, we could say, have voluntarily jumped, in accordance with the ethical codes with which he has been brought up—for a play you have made with some success, although, as I am persuaded you would concede, very little originality.”Plain speaking if you’re Henry James, perhaps.","author":"Deborah Meyler","tags":["circumlocution","class-difference","class-divide","henry-james","humor","in-laws","jamesian","menace","misogyny","plain-speaking","power","relationships"],"id":275304,"author_id":"Deborah+Meyler"},{"text":"S.M.'Social Media or Social Menace?I'll leave it to you to work out.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["computers","internet","life","media","menace","philosophy","social","work-out","you"],"id":371621,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}