Quotes About Defense

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.

Whenever their partner's behavior looks or sounds like the real threats they've experienced in the past, they activate the defenses they used back then. Their defensive arsenal is ready to be deployed at the slightest provocation. An unsuspecting or well-intentioned partner can stumble over a tripwire and never know what they did to set off the attack.

one partner's defense quickly becomes the source of the other partner's wound. Wounds don't cause damage; defenses cause damage. When defensive partners lash out or retreat in an effort to protect themselves from pain or intrusion, they wound the other partner, who responds with a defense, which, in turn, wounds the partner who was defensive in the first place. A cycle of unconscious wounding and defending gets established that is hard to break.

I once heard her tell a friend that she was, in fact, a 120-pound woman, but she kept herself wrapped in fat in order to prevent bruising.

Watch it, Callie. The war has taught me lots of nasty habits. When I'm attacked, I attack back.

Really, Mrs. Michaelson, I have been attacked by swords and cannons and guns, but I am weary still, and haven't the heart to defend myself from a soup ladle!

I wonder if I'm going crazy. I think I read somewhere - or was it something I learned in psychology class? - that people often make up their own reality as a means of coping with what their brains can't possible handle. The idea comforts me, because while no one else out there seems to be trying to protect or save me, at least maybe my brain in.

Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.

A strategist should think in terms of paralyzing, not of killing. —Basil Liddell Hart

A sudden powerful transition to the offensive—the flashing sword of vengeance—is the greatest moment for the defense.

De acuerdo con la definición más sólida y aceptada, la disuasión dependía de convencer al objetivo de que los costes previstos superarían con mucho las presumibles ganancias; además, la disuasión se caracterizaba por limitar las ganancias al tiempo que se aumentaban los costes.

La acción de impedir los beneficios del otro mediante una creíble capacidad para detener la agresión en sus fases iniciales se conoció como «disuasión por negación»,[5] mientras que el aumento de los costes se denominó «disuasión por castigo». La negación era esencialmente otra palabra para denominar «defensa efectiva», la cual, si se comunicaba con suficiente antelación podía proporcionar un argumento convincente contra la agresión

El tiempo que transcurre sin hacer nada ofensivo se acumula en el crédito del defensor».

The forward movement necessary to occupy enemy territory taxed the attacker's energies and resources, while the defender was able to use this time to prepare to receive the attacker.

Tactics defined as "the science of military movements

The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

yet Bennie, like most highly defended people, is total mush beneath the carapace.

When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back

Boards don't hit back.

The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

He picked up the wrench and broke the guy's wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody's weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy's abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor's wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.

The Americans went into Pakistan to shoot that camel-fucker. Compared to that, crossing the US-Mexico border to cap him would be as risky as the secretary of defense sending a secretary to Starbucks to get him a latte.

You will defend me against the Pruitts' lawsuit and officially state, for the record, that my conduct was appropriate, professional, and within policy." "That's the general counsel's decision to make, not mine." "Then you'd better convince him, or I will file a lawsuit against the sheriff's department for repeatedly trying to kill me.