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Quotes About Defense

To create a pause between the stimulus and your reaction, add a truth to every defensive answer. For a healthy adult, the truth is the only defense and the best resource.
~ David Richo
Colonel Mickelson looks like he could defend Fort Hamilton by himself if Staten Island ever declared war and invaded... If Jack Nicholson looked like this when he yelled that Tom Cruise couldn't handle the truth, Cruise would have said, "Yes, you're right, I'm sorry. My bad.
~ David Rosenfelt
Harriet resisted, until Tara pulled out the big move...the combination "lean-against nuzzle, with a slight lick and an adoring glance." In dog-land the move had a degree of difficulty of nine point seven, and as far as I know, there is no known defense against it.
~ David Rosenfelt
Taken as a whole, the mass of scientific data reveals an essential role for our natural defenses in the battle against cancer.
~ David Servan-Schreiber
This is what I learned: If we all have a potential cancer lying dormant in us, each of us also has a body designed to fight the process of tumor development. It is up to each of us to use our body's natural defenses.
~ David Servan-Schreiber
In these pages I will tell you the story of how I changed from a scientist-researcher, completely ignorant of the body's natural defenses, to a physician who relies above all on these natural mechanisms.
~ David Servan-Schreiber
When a subject declares intellectual philosophy useless, you can be sure it won't be making any intellectual defense of its position.
~ David Sinclair
safety net against the temptations of the world.
~ David Weaver
The defender must first think defensively, but he must also think offensively. For an attacker it is the other way around. Somewhere they meet.
~ David Winner
The gun without the training just means you've given your attacker a free gun.
~ David Wong
I glanced at Badly Drawn Jesus, then pulled the gun from my pocket. On Judgment Day, I'd be able to proudly state that when I thought the hordes of Hell were coming for a local girl, I stood ready to shoot at them with a small-caliber pistol.
~ David Wong
It is a soldier's right to complain, his only defense against orders not to his liking.
~ Davis Bunn, Janette Oke
WAIT! You may be wondering why the red suit. Well, that's so bad guys don't see me bleed.
~ Deadpool
Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?
~ Dean Cavanagh
Are you going to say anything?" Brisbane crossed one leg lazily over the other flicking an imaginary piece of lint from his trousers. "I think he is doing quite well without me." "I did not mean for you to help him I meant for you to defend me," I said huffing slightly in my indignation.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Plants develop poison as a protection against predation. Should I keep one out simply because it has learnt better than its brothers how to defend itself? Roses have thorns and yet no one ever thinks to ban them from a garden for being prickly.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Nobody, but nobody, is going to get our guns, even if it means burying most of them in the ground and taking a final stand with our legs spread wide and our favorite firing power nestled in our arms.
~ Deb Baker
An investigator has to have a defense arsenal. Heck, every woman alive should have one if she wants to stay that way.
~ Deb Baker
Try to relax. Sometimes the best offense is a good defense.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
~ Bill Moyers
Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.
~ Ludwig Boltzmann
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
~ Booker T. Washington
Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
~ Don Meyer
Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.
~ Saxby Chambliss