Quotes About Defensive

She's not stuck up, she just got her guard up...and that's from only being fed up with so many people letting her down.

The Irish do have a despairing quality of gaiety, but they have also a dour and brooding ghost that rides on their shoulders and peers in on their thoughts. Let them laugh too loudly, it sticks a long finger down their throats. They condemn themselves before they are charged, and this makes them defensive always.

Twoa said, obviously still in my brain. It was my pheromones, she said defensively. I looked up at her; she was sniffing herself. She looked down at me. Okay, maybe it wasn't ALL the pheromones, she admitted. Nobody makes a good deodorant for superheroes.

Individuals in this predicament may find it next to impossible to relax their wakeful hypervigilance in relation to their surroundings even when no longer confronted by any immediate challenge or danger; a prolonged or repeated exposure to trauma can put individuals on the defensive for the simple reason that it causes them to anticipate, and brace themselves against, more trauma.

The little-me is egocentric, concerned with self-preservation and inward looking. It has a habit of being judgemental, both to self and to others. It is critical, insecure, needy, defensive and proud. The little-me is only ever secure in achievement and is therefore highly fragile and easily offended. The little-me wants to control and manage, and cannot easily let go.

And that's all this Prime Minister needed, a nice multi-syllable word like destabilization to turn it into a fucking jingle. But he threw us on the defensive in a way that I'll make sure never happens again. Of course the only people listening was Penthouse magazine. Goddamn, what does it mean when the conscience of America airbrushes pussy for a living?

the best solicited feedback is confidential feedback. It's good because nobody gets embarrassed or defensive.

I understand I've made an unusual lifestyle choice. But the label 'crazy' bothers me. Annoys me. Because it prevents response. When someone asks if you're crazy, Knight lamented, you can either say yes, which makes you crazy, or you can say no, which makes you sound defensive, as if you fear that you really are crazy. There's no good answer.

Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned. Eventually, he was down to uttering just five words, and only to guards: yes; no; please; thank you. "I am surprised," he wrote, "by the amount of respect this garners me. That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.

But the label 'crazy' bothers me. Annoys me. Because it prevents response." When someone asks if you're crazy, Knight lamented, you can either say yes, which makes you crazy, or you can say no, which makes you sound defensive, as if you fear that you really are crazy. There's no good answer.

The defensive posture is attributed to Rome's focus on the consolidation of the city around its seven hills, but it also reflects Rome's internal class warfare and confused structure of governance that relied on crisis management, versus proactive, governance.

The victory narrative seduces us, however, to pull back just when we're beginning to win, in fear of taking further risks. The covering demand draws too many of us in, as our enemies put us on the defensive when we must remain vigilant and constantly on the offensive in attaining civil rights. That means being vocal, organizing at the grass roots, and collectively demanding action.

You have a very prickly exterior that needs to be navigated very carefully. Kind of like a really sexy cactus.

Where that rage comes from? Partly, I would say it's a sense that a life can be taken away from you, quickly, in a dumb second for the dumbest reason. That makes me mad, defensive and protective.

Faith is fearful and defensive when it begins to die inwardly, struggling to maintain itself and reaching out for security and guarantees. In so doing, it removes itself from the hand of the One who has promised to maintain it. And its own manipulations bring it to ruin. The pugilistic faith usually occurs in the form of an orthodoxy that feels threatened and is therefore more rigid than ever.3

While across patriarchies a common response is to view women as dangerous antagonists to be subdued, [Sudhir] Kakar says the 'defensive mode' of Indian male fantasy takes a specific form - that of 'desexualization, either of the self or of the woman', the former through celibacy and ascetic longings, and the latter through transforming the woman into either a maternal automation or an 'androgynous virgin

Reputation is like a sort of armor, or a weapon you can brandish, if need be".

My father had a theory that poor people are the best drivers because they can't afford to carry car insurance and have to drive like they live, defensively.

Ross sounded slightly defensive. 'No.' 'We've been a bit busy,' said Sefton. 'Paris is quite something. Cork I didn't really understand. Northampton is kind of . . . cute. Barnsley is delightful. New York is exactly what you'd expect.

The time will come when the mind will no longer fear the things it believes in; then man will be ashamed to have remained on the defensive for so long.

the passionate defense of the Bible as a "history book" among the more conservative wings of Christianity, despite intentions, isn't really an act of submission to God; it is making God submit to us. In its most extreme forms, making God look like us is what the Bible calls idolatry.