Empty Threat Quotes

The noise is greater then the nuts.

We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these ’droids to say? “Talk about lame,” Fang muttered.

Couple of artists got words for me, that's never fun. They say it's on when they see me, that day don't ever come.

a delusion and a sham ... an empty menace to the great interest, made to answer the clamor of the ignorant and the unreasoning.

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.

You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can.

Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.