Intimidating Quotes

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.

Jesus doesn’t dominate the other, avoid the other, colonize the other, intimidate the other, demonize the other, or marginalize the other. He incarnates into the other, joins the other in solidarity, protects the other, listens to the other, serves the other, even lays down his life for the other.

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.

intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!

Nothing can intimidate me. I just go out and destruct and destroy.

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

Life imitates art but art intimidates life.

I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.

I'm tall and smart. If you're aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren't very smart themselves.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Every time somebody says 'Islamophobia' it gives the people who are intimidating cover.

I am not intimidating. I am a woman's woman. I love hanging out with women. And people are really inspired by this show.

If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.

Nobody intimidates me.

Hire people who intimidate you.

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

It's always intimidating to meet an icon.

The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand.

Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot.

I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.

Jay was intimidating to the point where I was totally intimidated before I even got to the booth. But I was like, this is going to be a test of my mettle. In the South, I'm regarded as the guy who, quote unquote, out-rapped Jay-Z.

I scare people a little bit, so why not? That's what we do as drag queens. We're supposed to be a little intimidating!

Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle.

I don't think that I would go into the writers' room because they work really hard and I feel like I'm already working really hard to shoot my part of the show. Also, I haven't written in a writers' room before, it's kinda intimidating to walk in there.

Standing before a camera isn't intimidating. It's more comfortable for me. I enjoy it now. I'm more aware of what to do.

There's a way in which I feel like, when you're on an enormous film and there's an enormous crew and there are three cameras and there are like 20 setups for every scene, first of all, it's very... I find it very intimidating. And it's also sort of deadening in a way.

Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don't know what you are doing. It's really quite easy

I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.

My courses do not intimidate. Instead, they encourage the player to play well and become more open to the enjoyable aspects of the game.

Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

It's very intimidating looking at the script and realizing that you have to say medical jargon as if you've said them a million times before, and they're just a part of your vocabulary. But that's what preparing is for, and you can't just really wing it. You've got to really know what you're doing.

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.

I started thinking about gender and how it's an arbitrary thing if you're born with an XX or XY chromosome, but it can determine your experience of the world. It's about whether you are physically intimidating vs. being physically intimidated. It determines whether you are the one to take an active role in sex and society.

I felt very comfortable on a set - incredibly comfortable on a set, which is a real gift because that can be hugely intimidating.

I really enjoyed judges critiques because I can always grow and improve from that. I don't think any of the judges are intimidating.

When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.

Angels do not intend to intimidate or scare, but their overwhelming glory and being will stun us into sudden contact with what is far beyond us.

I don't know the reasons why something is intimidating to me or disgusting to me and I don't like feeling that way, either. I don't like it when something turns me off, on any level. So, its a matter of saying: Well, I can either sit here and reject, or I can do double-time embracing of something else just to reassure myself that I'm not against the world.