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Quotes About Defend

Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.
~ Herbert Hoover
Truth is like a wild animal; let it loose and it will defend itself!
~ Andy Andrews
It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.
~ Blaise Pascal
Stop telling the truth about my record!
~ Bob Dole
Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.
~ Esaias Tegner
Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.
~ Mikhail Khodorkovsky
In a town like Tallahassee it pays to diversify. I like to say the one thing I won't do is defend FSU football players. I'm a Gator and can't cross that line.
~ Michael Connelly
Roman history, Nathaniel. You need to read it. It is full of emperors who cannot tell even their children what catastrophe is about to occur, so they might defend themselves. Sometimes there is a necessity for silence.
~ Michael Ondaatje
And then there is the ego, perhaps the most formidable creation of the default mode network, which strives to defend us from threats both internal and external.
~ Michael Pollan
As much as we can, let's defend the truth by pointing to what the apostles taught, and let's call out sin by pointing to the inconsistencies between what we say we believe and what we do.
~ John Piper
I don't know a single person that's like, ''Avatar' is my favorite movie.' It never even comes up. I don't know anyone that will defend that movie.
~ Chris Cubas
When I was 12, there was a kid a couple of grades older than me who was picking on my sisters. No matter how big they were, I would defend them.
~ Lucky Blue Smith
[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.
~ Jonah Goldberg
Beezus and Ramona defended their possessions from Willa Jean. This is what - called playing with Willa Jean.
~ Beverly Cleary
I may not agree with what you say, but I shall defend to the death your right to be a complete asshole.
~ Bill Bryson
What is it about our human nature that we feel the need to defend the choices we've made when it comes to our medical treatment?
~ Suzanne Somers
Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for the zoo trade must often kill all the adults in the family to capture the baby.
~ Sy Montgomery
My virginity weighed like a millstone around my neck. It had been of such enormous importance to me for so long that my habit was to defend it at all costs. I had been defending it for five years and I was sick of it.
~ Sylvia Plath
The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me—and to me it seems chash, meaning correct—that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.
~ Tad Williams
People with a good life would defend it more vigorously than people who were beaten down by their masters and their fates.
~ Tamora Pierce
Soy yo, soy él. Somos, pero soy yo, primeramente soy yo, defenderé ser yo hasta que no pueda más.
~ Julio Cortazar
La esperanza le pertenece a la vida, es la vida misma defendiéndose
~ Julio Cortazar
I am I, I am he. We are, but I am I, first I am I, I will defend being I until I am unable to fight any longer. I am I, Atalia. Ego. Yo. A professional degree, an Argentine, a scarlet fingernail, pretty sometimes, big dark eyes, I. Atalia Donosi, I. Yo. Yo-yo, windlass and hawser. Funny.
~ Julio Cortazar