Quotes About Defense

It's not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That's not a problem at all.

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

Peace through strength works. We've got the greatest military in the world. I want them to dominate any potential conflict.

I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

Everybody who I play always wants to use me, so I always tell them that I'm the only one who knows how to stop Portis, so go ahead.

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

We're so so interested in protecting criminals and people that want to do us harm and I think we have to go back to a little more old fashioned method of thinking, if that makes sense.

What must be understood is this: attackers attack as a form of defence. It is their instinctive response to threat, real or perceived. It may be desperate or it may be habit, or both, when desperation becomes a way of life. Behind the assault hides a fragile person.

Strings glared at his new corporal. 'Where'd you learn that skill?' The man shrugged. 'Don't know. Don't like getting hit.' 'Well, do you ever counter-attack?' Tarr frowned. 'Sure. When they're tired.

The woman moved in a blur, one elbow driving backwards into the assassin's stomach. She twisted round and drove her knee into the man's crotch. A shout burst from Kalam as he reeled back a step, then fell to the ground with a heavy thump.

Much as she needed him to play those self-wounding games with her, she needed even more the solitude necessary for complete self-destruction. Isolation was more than a simple defence mechanism; it also served to prepare one for more severe punishments, possibly culminating in suicide. On another level, she would view her desire to drive him off as an act of mercy on her part. But that was a most irritating form of self-pity.

A defense based on the weakness of nature belongs to untutored children and dogs that bite, Captain.

You can't leave all these people behind. They're outside the endless excitement and lust, the frenzied accumulation. They're outside and can only look on with growing despair and envy. What happens when rage supplants helplessness? Increasingly, the ranks of the military were filling with the lowest classes. Training, acceptable income and a full belly provided the incentives, yet these soldiers were not enamoured of the civilization they were sworn to defend.

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

We are all glass soldiers.

It's a Glock. You squeeze that part, things come out of that part. Very fast.

As New York Times columnist Charles Blow observed, "Trump's magical mixture is to make being afraid feel like fun. His rallies are a hybrid of concert revelry and combat prep. Trump tells his followers about all the things of which they should be afraid, or shouldn't trust or should hate, and then positions himself as the greatest defense against those things. His supporters roar their approval at their white knight.

But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.

The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.

if the Net is so crucial, what happens if the Net goes down? It may have to go down a few times before we learn how to defend it properly, before we catch on that civilization depends on it for survival.

We're infected, both of us. We are his followers, whatever our conscious minds try to tell us. Our only defense is that we should be aware of that.

You are learning about yourself," he said. "Such knowledge can defend you better than a sword or armor. Such knowledge gives you arrows of the mind.

He laughed to lessen the sting of his sarcasm.

Only fools skirmish in their backyard when war is knocking down their front door.