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Quotes About Defense

In such a situation, the only thing likely to ensure our survival may be a nuclear first strike of our own.
~ Sam Harris
Depend on it, I will defend this little citadel to the utmost.
~ Samuel Johnson
Paranoia's OK, said Berry, it's just a more primitive defense. If you think someone's watching you, you think you're not alone.
~ Samuel Shem
Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I've got your back, Doc. You can count on it. I would kill them before I let them touch you.
~ Sandra Brown
He called up the numbness with which he armed himself to get through each day.
~ Sandra Brown
If you kill with homemade bombs it's called terrorism, and if you kill with machine guns and hunger it's called defense.
~ Santiago Roncagliolo
And if I see you step foot on my property again, I'll do more than make a phone call," he says, waving the baseball bat around menacingly.
~ Sarah Darer Littman
Say what you will, but you're never prepared for the surprise attack.
~ Sarah Dessen
For some reason, blame is often directed toward me. I have to be vigilant.
~ Sarah Dessen
We both know how to hide our sharpest parts, I just don't always recognize my own weaponry.
~ Sarah Kay
I see plainly that America can defend herself if proper measures are taken," he wrote, adding ominously, "and now I begin to fear she should be lost by herself and her own sons." The
~ Sarah Vowell
Sometimes I wonder," I said, "if people who are going to tell the truth shouldn't make sure first that they can defend themselves.
~ Saul Bellow
It is a human tendency to become what you attack.
~ Scott Adams
You can't keep all bad luck from finding you, but you can fortify yourself to the point where the smaller stuff bounces off.
~ Scott Adams
Battle platforms were a recent addition to Cruz's arsenal. They were the size of cities, floating on the ocean
~ Scott Adams
question on cross-examination to which they don't know the answer, but Stern's instinct is that there is an opportunity for the defense
~ Scott Turow
Al igual que las rosas, ella sólo mostraba sus espinas cuando él intentaba arrancarle los pétalos.
~ Johanna Lindsey
Try a little subtlety in self-defense; it'll help, you'll find out.
~ John Ashbery
Placed in a puzzling light, and moving, Our days put on such reticence These accents seem their own defense.
~ John Ashbery
what is required is not more effective defence of the viability of Christian talk about revelation before the tribunal of impartial reason: the common doctrinal slenderness of such defences nearly always serves to inflame rather than reduce the dogmatic difficulties.
~ John B. Webster
The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
~ John Barrymore
No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.
~ John Boehner
When a man's cause is good, it will sufficiently plead for itself, yea, and for its master too.
~ John Bunyan