Quotes About Defense

When they'd drawn their swords on me, I'd raised my hands. It's a good habit to have when anyone points something sharp at you.

In my defense, I could have dispensed with the truth entirely and told a much better story. Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense. Losi

I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.

No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! I

I learned that the best way to stay safe is to let your enemy's think you cant be hurt".

your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! I

Reputation is like a form of armor, or a weapon you can brandish if need be.

The words struck a chord in me. They were the same words that Ben had used a hundred times as he drilled me endlessly in argument. His words came back, admonishing me: What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

Ho imparato che il modo migliore per essere al sicuro è fare in modo che i tuoi nemici pensino di non poterti ferire

If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection.

Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

Es natural que un gobierno de un país en situación de posguerra trate de defenderse, pero no le servirá de nada.

the essence of what General Douglas MacArthur said is right: All defense and no offense doesn't get you very far. General Patton provides supporting cover when he advised, "Never let the enemy choose the battlefield.

There is no one we swindle more than we swindle ourselves. There is no one we run to defend more than we do ourselves. And like every other spiritually blind person, Joe was blind to his blindness.

In your weakness, worry, doubt, and fear, he pleads to the Father in your defense.

Denial is often the first line of defense: refusing to accept that the bad news is true.

A startup is like a mosquito. A bear can absorb a hit and a crab is armored against one, but a mosquito is designed for one thing : to score. No energy is wasted on defense. The defense of mosquitos, as a species, is that there are a lot of them, but this is little consolation to the individual mosquito.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter but with guns.

Until I come up with something better, the hammer defense." "Huh?" "Classic legal strategy, Nash. If the law is on your side, hammer the law. If the facts are on your side, hammer the facts. If neither is on your side, hammer the table.

A prosecutor is a stolid carpenter who patiently hammers his wood into place as he builds a house, one board at a time. A defense lawyer is a nihilistic vandal who finds the support beam and pulls down the house before it's complete.

When there's a dead body in the room, you never, ever answer cops' questions without your lawyer present. Which is to say, your lawyer answers the questions by saying, "We have nothing to say at this time.

In the military, JAG lawyers switch sides. One day a prosecutor, the next day a defense lawyer. Maybe they should make civilian prosecutors do the same thing. Many are plagued with a disease I call emotional scurvy. Instead of lacking vitamin C, they've been shortchanged of empathy.

Straining to appear judicial, he turned toward the jury box. "The jurors shall disregard the last… uh… colloquy between the witness and defense counsel." Might as well ask the residents of Pompeii to ignore the volcano.