Quotes About Defense

agent. My testimony would have been automatically suspect, even years later. I would have been a defense counsel's wet dream. As in, Special Agent, please tell us about the bribe you can't prove you didn't take. So I would have joined

He went by something an old Army buddy had told him: a good coat is like a good lawyer. It covers your ass.

They sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm." "You know George Orwell?" Yanni asked.

nine-millimeter automatic.

Reacher said, "They sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm." "You know George Orwell?" Yanni asked. "I went to college," Reacher said. "West Point is technically a college.

I don't see how his welfare suddenly becomes my responsibility, just because he chose to attack my welfare first.

Get your retaliation in first.

Why interstate?" "Why do you think the interstates were built? Not so the Harper family could drive from Aspen to Yellowstone Park on vacation. So the Army could move troops and weapons around, fast and easy.

From the Latin motto si vis pacem para bellum. If you wish for peace, prepare for war.

We're not insured," she said. Then she leaned under the counter and came up with a shotgun. "Not by no insurance company, anyway," she said.

about someone wearing body armor. It's

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they renounce violence when it comes to introducing changes in what already exists, but in defense of the existing order they will not stop at the most ruthless acts.

Innocence is the weakest defense. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, I didn't do it. Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments - changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

You must work always to understand your own heart so that it cannot be used against you.

Did she just say they'd drag the river for your body?" T. S. Woodhouse asked, his pencil poised above his open notebook. Sam sighed like a man deeply in love. "She did, the little bearcat. It's the only defense that poor, helpless girl's got against the animal pull of our love. Uh, you can quote me on that.

It is the scorpion's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.

That was the trouble with letting people in—once you'd taken off the armor, it was hard to put it back on.

As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers. As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's left of my manicure, Petra said.

You know what works? Denial. As a coping tool, denial is severely underrated.

And if you do anything to hurt my mom's cat, I'll take you apart cell by cell. I'll mutilate your DNA so it can never reproduce, which would probably be a good thing for the world.

Good God. he said incredulously. You've got a black belt in purse attack, that's for damn sure.

Judging is a defense mechanism. If anger in its purest form is temporary displeasure, then judgment is permanent rejection.