Quotes About Defense

Lo que me interesa señalar en el bellísimo final de «Trön...» es algo que encontraremos en muchos otros textos de Borges: la lectura como defensa. La quietud a la que alude la hipálage está en el acto de leer; todo queda en suspenso; la vida, por fin, se ha detenido.

It was Plank who gave the defense its name: the 46. Many fans assume it came from the on-field alignment of players, as with the 3-4 defense and the Cover 2. In fact, 46 means nothing more than we're coming hard, in the way of the man who wears that number, Doug Plank.

Ich war gerade nahe daran, zu erkennen, daß man jeden durchschauen kann, wenn man einen Knüppel oder Schraubenzieher hat, der groß genug ist.

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.

There's a kind of science defense lobby or evolution defense lobby in particular . They are mostly atheist, but they are desperately wanting to be friendly to mainstream, sensible, religious people. And the way you do that is to tell them that there's no incompatibility between science and religion. [Expelled, No Intelligence allowed, 2008, 47m38]

and every word sounded both a defence against what he truly felt and a betrayal of all that he was.

A lot of things seem one way but are another. And how a thing seems is often just the game we play to save ourselves from great, panicking pain.

Bullet-proof, right?' 'Mmm.' Kawahara tipped her head to one side. 'Depends on the bullet, I would say. But impact resistant, certainly.

The lawyers I saw there had about as much in common with the man who had defended me at fifteen as automated machine rifle fire has with farting.

There is no place here for softness. Let folk in too close and you offer them up as weapons for your own destruction.

Allow someone to become too dear to you and you give your enemy a weapon more deadly than the sharpest sword, more lethal than the strongest poison.

Not every man is a liar, some of them, yes. Not all of them. There are good men out there, men who respect women, men with the courage to stand up for what they believe in. Men who'll be gentle with a newborn babe. Men who'll defend family and land and country with their dying breath.

As the Daoists pointed out, we often identify with our ideas so strongly that we feel personally assaulted if these are criticized or corrected.

Nobody touches my wife and kids. Han

Threats come in all guises. Not all soldiers are young males, and not all soldiers wear uniforms.

If we cannot defend the things of this world and if none of the relationships in which we walk the earth can withstand the criticism which reduces the whole to relativity, we can still love them and we need take the criticism no more seriously than it deserves (pp. 29, 248).

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him

I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.

MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS! Someone's coming who wants to reason with us.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.