Quotes About Defense

An armed woman will be more of a target knights on the prowl. and unarmed women can find themselves without defines

Shyness was a defense mechanism I had put up as a small child. Who knows why, but I felt safer keeping to myself than risk getting hurt by other people and I kept up that shield for years.

Of course he went straight for the psycho defense. Men always like to go straight to the psycho defense. For that reason alone we should never go psycho on a guy: just so we'll never be proving them right.

mixing defensiveness with anger - a wonderful mix, by the way.

Angry is just sad's bodyguard.

Does it feed into my psychological patterns, my defense mechanisms, or does it take me beyond myself, make me more free, maybe more vulnerable, help me to participate more fully?

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

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

Her guardian angel had given up his garrison

About serving your country. You're a hero—people all over the nation, and right here in Shelter Bay, can sleep safe in their houses because the enemies are being kept at bay.

Whatever it sounds like, it's not irrefutable proof he did this. And it could play with a jury. Klister is good. We'll need better.

If he's retained Klister the Blister," says Backmann, "my money's on him being guilty as sin. Innocent people don't hire counsel like the Blister.

Displacement's a bitch, isn't it? We all use defense mechanisms to deal with anxiety, frustration, or unacceptable impulses, but what's fascinating about them is that we aren't aware of them in the moment.

Of course, anger serves another function—it pushes people away and keeps them from getting close enough to see you. I wonder if John needs people to be angry at him so that they won't see his sadness.

Displacement (shifting a feeling toward one person onto a safer alternative) is considered a neurotic defense, neither primitive nor mature.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.

What's with that?" Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. "Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie?

Fear and anger always come hand in hand. Anger is my hiding place from fear, my shield and my sword against it.

You can't win a war sitting behind a wall and hoping the enemy decides to leave.

Humans are scared of just about everything. Problem is, their first reaction to be scared- Is to kill it.

Reason. Reason was my next line of defense. Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

Fighting is never good. But sometimes necessary.

Wizardry aside, it's tough to beat a gun for discouraging men with baseball bats.