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Quotes About Defense

Your only defense can be you were so madly in love you weren't responsible for your actions.
~ Suzanne Collins
That's the one thing you can always depend on; as we're fighting one war, we're always preparing for the next one.
~ Max Brooks
We couldn't defend ourselves without violating national security. We had to just sit there and take it. And what was the result? Brain drain. Why stick around and be the victim of a political witch hunt when you could escape to the private sector: a fatter paycheck, decent hours, and maybe, just maybe, a little respect and appreciation by the people you work for.
~ Max Brooks
Yes, our defensive strategies had saved the human race, but what about the human spirit?
~ Max Brooks
Why do I go there? Where's my, what do you call it, "ego-defense mechanism"?
~ Max Brooks
Republicans typically fight against new taxes and cuts in defense spending, while Democrats resist cuts to social services. Both sides believe they are defending ethical principles. Yet they both pursue their political agenda while collectively ignoring the unethical financial mess they are leaving for future generations.
~ Max H. Bazerman
I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. They shield themselves with an aura of unavailableness (for which after a time they begin to take credit) largely as a defense tactic.
~ Maya Angelou
I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.
~ Maya Angelou
I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. They shield themselves with an aura of unavailableness (for which after a time they begin to take credit) largely as a defense tactic. In my particular case, I could not hide behind the curtain of voluntary goodness. I was being crushed by two unrelenting forces: the uneasy suspicion that I might not be a normal female and my newly awakening sexual appetite.
~ Maya Angelou
sometimes you have to defend yourself from yourself." When
~ Maya Angelou
I don't want to ever give someone that kind of power to destroy me.
~ Maya Banks
I need an alibi.
~ Maya Banks
There is only one rule about violence. Do whatever you must do to make it stop.
~ Megan Lindholm
I never only have a blade—but the only weapon I bring to a conversation is a knife. A gun means the talking is over.
~ Meljean Brook
I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.
~ Melody Beattie
they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.
~ Melody Beattie
Sometimes, the things we do to protect ourselves turn on us and hurt us. They become self-destructive.
~ Melody Beattie
Anyone who thought this would be a weak point in the manor's defenses would have a rude surprise, shortly before coming down with a serious case of death.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Kabul edilebilir tek savaÅŸ, kendini savunmak için yap?land?r ve her türlü savaÅŸta en büyük bedeli ödeyen masumlard?r
~ Mercedes Lackey
Weapons master is giving me special lessons. she (Amily) chuckled. He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Boys learn to cover up grief with anger; the more troubled the boy, the more intense the mask of indifference. Shutting down emotionally is the best defense when the longing for connection must be denied.
~ bell hooks
No fim das contas, o cinismo é uma grande máscara para um coração decepcionado e traído.
~ bell hooks
The founders also knew that every government system risks corruption, and they wanted to make sure Americans would be able to defend themselves should the nation's leaders become tyrannical. To that end, they ratified the Second Amendment, guaranteeing the right of Americans to bear arms. An armed populace is a powerful deterrent to tyrants both domestically and internationally, and we must defend this liberty as part of our common defense.
~ Ben Carson
Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.
~ Ben Marcus