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Quotes About Defense

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.
~ Thomas Wyatt
All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.
~ Jim Rohn
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
~ Adam Haslett
I've been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu all my life. Boxing, kickboxing. I'm definitely not a fighter, but I defend my honor.
~ Spencer Pratt
Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.
~ Eben Alexander
My unhappiness protects me from life.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.
~ Jeff Cooper
Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
Took cover. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.
~ Jim Butcher
Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?
~ Jim Fergus
Defend organizational change. Inevitable resistance can be mitigated if the change is carefully discussed, planned, embraced, communicated and ultimately defended.
~ Jim Knight
A nation does not have to be overrun by a foreign enemy to be utterly destroyed." Rather,
~ Jim Nelson Black
The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.
~ Jim Walsh
Even the most damaged and disenchanted teenager was only waiting for someone to see the real persona beneath the defense and respond with genuine caring. (63)
~ Joan Frances Casey
I would so much rather be vulnerable and experience existence than be strong and defend myself from it.
~ Joan Z. Spade
you have to remember that even the humble lizard uses camouflage to save his skin. The little anole can change his color when necessary.
~ Joanna Campbell Slan
Aggressive and bellicose persons," said Janet with care, "always assume that unaggressive and pacific persons cannot protect themselves. "Why is that?
~ Joanna Russ
Ruger's in there too. Hands covered in blood so they arrested him. He had to tackle your girl to get the gun away from her. She'd gone all Pulp Fiction on us, ready to defend you by killing all of us if she had to. Crouched over your body like Wonder Woman. Gives me a boner just thinking about it.
~ Joanna Wylde
It was a rousing defense, not just of journalism but of the rights of women to make allegations against powerful men. When the Times published the letter on its website, it went immediately viral.
~ Jodi Kantor
They only tackle you when you've got the ball.
~ Jodi Kantor
It's a scene I've fantasized about for years. Yet, now that it's happening, a part of me sits in the audience, watching the actors say their lines, analyzing the blocking. I can't tell if this is a defense mechanism or my intuition warning me to beware.
~ Jody Gehrman
Better to have steel to hand and find no trouble than find yourself in trouble with no steel to hand.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I defend Not my voice, but my silence
~ Anna Akhmatova
That's why males defend, Lady Surreal. Because you females are deadlier when you're roused—and you're merciless when you're riding the killing edge
~ Anne Bishop