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Quotes About Defense

Tyree explained, "This man attacked a guard barely
~ David Baldacci
A defense [of religion] is needed because none has been forthcoming. The discussion has been ceded to men who regard religious belief with frivolous contempt. Their books have in recent years poured from every press, and although differing widely in their style, they are identical in their message: Because scientific theories are true, religious beliefs must be false.
~ David Berlinski
Paradigms clearly involve, in a key way, the process of taking ideas and concepts for granted, without realizing that this is in fact going on. Since this process takes place as the mind attempts to defend itself against what it believes to be a severe disturbance, a paradigm tends to interfere with that free play of the mind that is essential for creativity. Instead it encourages the process of playing false, especially in deep and subtle areas.
~ David Bohm
We call this a "bow", Cap'n, and the thing that's sticking out of that fellow's head over on the other side of the trench is called an "arrow". If you put them together just right, they'll do all sorts of nice things to people who aren't nice.
~ David Eddings
Love, My Goddess loves us all, and she gave up Bhelliom willingly out of that love. Bhelliom can't begin to understand love. In the end that may be our only defense against it.
~ David Eddings
Awareness of the breadth and seriousness of agency issues constitutes the first line of defense for fund managers. By evaluating each participant involved in investment activities with a skeptical attitude, fiduciaries increase the likelihood of avoiding or mitigating the most serious principal-agent conflicts.
~ David F. Swensen
years. Just as the secret of real estate is location, location, location, the real secret to Yale's remarkable continuing success is defense, defense, defense.
~ David F. Swensen
abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy.
~ David Foster Wallace
A neutral and affectless silence. The sort of all-defensive game Schtitt used to have me play: the best defense: let everything bounce off you; do nothing. I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear.
~ David Foster Wallace
The only thing ensuring our security is the certain knowledge that our nuclear boomers are still out there under the seas ready with swift retaliation if
~ William R. Forstchen
and in so doing strip our community clean not just of our able-bodied defense force but even our ability to provide ourselves with a proper harvest this fall, thus forcing us onto the federal weal in meek submission to its authority?
~ William R. Forstchen
either a terrorist cell member or the ruler of someplace like North Korea or Iran, with only one or two nukes in their possession, could level the playing field against us in spite of our thousands of weapons. That's what is meant by 'asymmetrical strike.
~ William R. Forstchen
The enemy will never attack you where you are strongest. … He will attack where you are weakest. If you do not know your weakest point, be certain, your enemy will
~ William R. Forstchen
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
~ William Shakespeare
Muster your wits; stand in your own defence...
~ William Shakespeare
In cases of Defense 'tis best to weigh The Enemy more mighty than he seems.
~ William Shakespeare
WILL YOU YIELD AND THIS AVOID, OR GUILTY IN DEFENSE BE THUS DESTROY'D?
~ William Shakespeare
Eugenia and get them out of harm's way.
~ William W. Johnstone
a few well-placed shots would either kill them or drive them back inside.
~ William W. Johnstone
That's right. An unarmed population is an invitation for takeover.
~ William W. Johnstone
measure, he put some slugs into a couple men rushing forward, tugging at their guns. They spun as they were hit, crying out and falling
~ William W. Johnstone
When men are fighting for their lives they are not often disposed to be complimentary to those who are trying to kill them.
~ Winston Churchill
We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
~ Winston S. Churchill
This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.
~ Winston S. Churchill