{"quotes":[{"text":"The old myth is true. We see our environment as a mirror to our self-image. If we think we are weak, everybody will appear like a threat. If we think we are strong, we will try to help everyone.","author":"Gracia Hunter","tags":["environment","help","self-image","strong","threat","weak"],"id":2720,"author_id":"Gracia+Hunter"},{"text":"Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["ad-posey","fame","inspirational","storytellers","storytelling","threat","value","view","write","writers","writing","writing"],"id":5688,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"},{"text":"When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, 'If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you' - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for his bar mitzvah should be thinking.When 1:55 came and the other half of the class left, Meryl Lee whispered, 'If she gives you one after we leave, I'm going to do Number 408 to you.' I didn't remember what Number 408 was, but it was probably pretty close to what Danny Hupfer had promised.Even Mai Thi looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, 'I know your home.' Which sounded pretty ominous.","author":"Gary D. Schmidt","tags":["creme-puff","humor","ominous","threat","worry"],"id":7840,"author_id":"Gary+D.+Schmidt"},{"text":"In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.","author":"David Hewson","tags":["hidden-meaning","threat","vanity"],"id":10767,"author_id":"David+Hewson"},{"text":"Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.","author":"Noël Coward","tags":["failure","failure-and-success","success","threat"],"id":18696,"author_id":"No%C3%ABl+Coward"},{"text":"Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["ash","death","dreaming","dreaming-big","dreams","dust","future","happiness","hope","inspirational","kierkegaard","life","life-lessons","looking-back","looking-forward","motivational","past","perseverance","persistence","phoenix","poetry","power","proverb","rebirth","salt","self-love","strength","threat","vision","wisdom"],"id":18753,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"},{"text":"The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.","author":"Ruta Sepetys","tags":["blindness","ingrid","joana","metaphor","ruta-sepetys","salt-to-the-sea","soldier","threat","war"],"id":20027,"author_id":"Ruta+Sepetys"},{"text":"Talc: You have been found guilty of misleading and perverting the young. I decree that you be hung by your underdeveloped testicles until dead. ZORRO.","author":"John Kennedy Toole","tags":["hilarious","threat"],"id":22904,"author_id":"John+Kennedy+Toole"},{"text":"Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["blackmail","bribery","e-mail","extortion","intimidation","madmen","madness","outlaw","ransom","slanderer","threat"],"id":25234,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["close","corrosive","danger","dangerous","difference","empathy","eternal","favourite","glue","imperfection","infection","love","loving-someone","michael-bassey-johnson","natural","nature","never","one","pathetic","perfection","real-friends","somebody","someone","threat","together","true-friends","true-love","understanding","unity","unpleasant","wild"],"id":27833,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":86,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}