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Quotes About Defense

His intellect might be a weapon, his worldliness his shield.
~ Laksmi Pamuntjak
I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.
~ Cassandra Clare
The wishes of our hearts are weapons that can be used against us.
~ Cassandra Clare
I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!
~ Cassandra Clare
I'm not his bodyguard," said Isabelle. "I'm his girlfriend. Which gives me the right to kick your ass if you bother him. That's how it works.
~ Cassandra Clare
Anger is not a feeling; it's a defence. When you can't acknowledge your true feelings because they're too excruciating, you defend against them with anger.
~ Catherine Gildiner
Anger is a defense, not a feeling, ....analyze what feeling the anger was covering.
~ Catherine Gildiner
every time she felt angry she should remember that anger is a defence, not a feeling, and to analyze what feeling the anger was covering.
~ Catherine Gildiner
anger is a defence, not a feeling, and to analyze what feeling the anger was covering.
~ Catherine Gildiner
Second, I told her that every time she felt angry she should remember that anger is a defence, not a feeling, and to analyze what feeling the anger was covering.
~ Catherine Gildiner
When you can't acknowledge your true feelings because they're too excruciating, you defend against them with anger.
~ Catherine Gildiner
An oppressed class which does not strive to learn the use of weapons [the Russian word, oruzhiia, contains another wonderful long r], to practice the use of weapons, to own weapons, deserves to be mistreated Ã¢â'¬Â¦ The demand for disarmament in the present-day world is nothing but an expression of despair.
~ Catherine Merridale
Because if you had been civil, he would have been the one to look bad. Not you. This way you appear to validate him. You give him all the ammunition he needs.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I have no way to defend my borders but to extend them.
~ Catherine the Great
September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Don't apologize, you were very fair." Dess sipped his tea. "The defense will stipulate that we're rubbish. Genocidal meatbags with mummy issues and embarrassingly poor impulse control.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.
~ Cathy Kelly
Racial self-hatred is seeing yourself the way the whites see you, which turns you into your own worst enemy. Your only defense is to be hard on yourself, which becomes compulsive, and therefore a comfort, to peck yourself to death.
~ Cathy Park Hong
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
~ Gerry Adams
Il nostro compito è di combattere contro lo straniero che ha invaso l'Italia. E contro gli italiani che al soldo dello straniero ci ostacolano in quest'opera di difesa della Patria, noi combattiamo per difenderci".
~ Giampaolo Pansa
Each of us, over the years, creates a character for ourselves. One we identify with, which corresponds to a positive idea of ourselves, which encapsulates the qualities we like to think we have. Your character, the one you've created for yourself, the one you identify with, has, among its various characteristics, one that could be described like this: He's a criminal lawyer, therefore he defends criminals, but not those who've committed heinous and disgusting crimes.
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.
~ Gilbert Arenas
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
He is that sort of person—the kind who appears to have no boundaries at first, who you have to get to know incredibly well to understand that his guileless openness is in part a defense to protect the deeper, more closely guarded things about which he is almost pathologically private.
~ Gina Frangello