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Quotes About Guard

A moment later a second guard approached and whispered to him, after which he said to Lumley-Gotham, Your son wishes to see you, sir. Has he been searched? inquired Lumley-Gotham. He has been searched, said the other.
~ Upton Sinclair
I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
~ Victor Hugo
Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus Christ is the man-God.
~ Victor Hugo
a Breton archer from the guard of Monsieur de Berry.
~ Victor Hugo
Liraz snorted, caught off guard, and the tension between them ebbed away. "I'm sorry if my almost dying interrupted your almost kissing.
~ Laini Taylor
You will sleep." The low timbre of his voice vibrated through her. "I will watch.
~ Catherine Anderson
A heart can learn ever so many tricks, and what sort of beast it becomes depends greatly upon whether it has been taught to sit up or to lie down, to speak or to beg, to roll over or to sound alarms, to guard or to attack, to find or to stay
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.
~ Gerard K. O'Neill
One left; things shifted in one's absence; one returned to something else. Time frustrated all. There was no sneaking past its rough guard, even to get to one's own yard of intimacies.
~ Gish Jen
Thou dost come to me in dreams, When entranced in slumber deep, And thy radiant countenance seems, Like some angel-guard, to keep Watch above my quiet sleep.
~ H. R., "Visions," 1850
Guard against this tendency of adjectives to march in pairs. They love to do it but it destroys all finer cadences.
~ Edith Foster Flint, c.1904
sometimes, it is not about guarding something of value that is important, but rather, being a valuable guard, so that when that thing comes along that needs guarding, there is no question.
~ James A. Owen
The sudden falling of the trees are the most dangerous of our accidents in the forest, for they are not to be foreseen, being impelled by no winds, nor any extraneous or visible cause, against which we can guard.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
As a small guard, you need to understand how you impact the game and make sure you impact it in the way that you can showcase your talent on the floor and having that understanding of the game. Tony Bennett was a smaller guard, too. We all have different strengths.
~ Muggsy Bogues
Be careful which spirit you allow to dwell in your body.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
One thing that the coaching staff and the assistant coaches did a really good job of working me on was shaping myself into an NBA guard.
~ Pat Connaughton
To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
~ Arthur Herzog
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
~ William Butler Yeats
A man once told me that his dog was half pit bull and half Poodle. He claimed that it wasn't much good as a guard dog, but it was a vicious gossip.
~ Stanley Coren
we are weakness itself, and unless He guards the city, in vain shall we labor to defend it.
~ Teresa of Avila
No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.
~ Tess Gerritsen
So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that.
~ Theresa May
Ye mariners of England,That guard our native seas;Whose flag has braved, a thousand years,The battle and the breeze!
~ Thomas Campbell
We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.
~ John Entwistle