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Quotes About Guard

We guard the truth because we cherish it, and we cherish the truth because it is our life. When
~ Thomas R. Schreiner
Right!" The guard took off around one end of the desk. The manager ran around the other. Circle after circle.
~ Tim Dorsey
Be the hunter—not the hunted. Never be caught with your guard down. Use good judgment and act in the best interest of our nation.
~ Oliver North
Pass auf dein Herz auf, Fuchsschwester,' rief Miranda ihr zu. 'Ich habe keins und er hat es mir trotzdem gebrochen.
~ Cornelia Funke
Sarcasm is a suit of armor.
~ Wally Lamb
He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he'd ever read any of my books. Maybe someday, I continued to say. But in 2009 his wife, Laurene Powell, said bluntly, "If you're ever going to do a book on Steve, you'd better do it now." He had just taken a second medical leave. I confessed to her that when he had first raised the idea, I hadn't known he was sick. Almost nobody knew, she said.
~ Walter Isaacson
A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness and affection. We are thrown off our guard by the general agitation of our feelings, and betray the intensity of those which, at more tranquil periods, our prudence at least conceals, if it cannot altogether suppress them.
~ Walter Scott
Above all else, guard your heart . . . And on the back . . . for it is the wellspring of life.
~ Charles Martin
At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
~ Charlize Theron
A statistical analysis properly conducted is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. The surgeon must guard carefully against false incisions...
~ M. J. Moroney, 1951
In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie...
~ James Montgomery
This implies that purification is a lifelong process, not something that is applied once and then forgotten. Purity of heart never survives a passive relationship. One must always guard his or her heart.
~ Hamza Yusuf
We totally misunderstand what it means to be alive when we think of our lives as time we can use in search of rewards and pleasure. Frantically and in growing frustration, we search through our days, our years, looking for the reward, for the success that will make our lives worthwhile, like the security guard looking through the trash in the wheelbarrow for something of value and all the while missing the obvious answer. When you have learned how to live, life itself is the reward.
~ Harold S. Kushner
Lee stepped over two bodies in gray and one in green, walked inside. The fellow whose head and torso he had seen from the street had fought from a window here. Bullets had chewed up the wall opposite that window; the picture that hung there was no longer recognizable. One of the bandsmen who guarded Lee looked around and said, "Take away the dead men and it ain't so very peculiar
~ Harry Turtledove
Rest now within the peace. Take of the fruit, but guard the seed.
~ Led Zeppelin
Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.
~ lee bruce iv
Beware how you give your heart.
~ Jane Austen
If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it may be the means—it may put me on my guard—at least, it may be something to live for.
~ Jane Austen
With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.
~ Pat Roberts
I am pained that I have been held guilty of committing contempt of the Court whose majesty I have tried to uphold - not as a courtier or cheerleader but as a humble guard - for over three decades, at some personal and professional cost. I am pained, not because I may be punished, but because I have been grossly misunderstood.
~ Prashant Bhushan
The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.
~ Jesse Jackson
He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work.
~ Ronald Harwood
Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards
~ Judith Martin
There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.
~ Anne Truitt