Quotes About Defend

It's natural to defend the honor of your forebears, if only with arguments so facile that a well-educated child could see through them. He fought for states' rights. States' rights to do what?

I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

It just seemed to me, that if you valued a thing, you found ways to keep it from being compromised.

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it. For instance, many wreck their reputations merely by trying to defend them.

You are fighting for what you can never obtain, and we are defending what we never mean to part with.

and defend her life by taking out any scythes who tried to do it for him, with bullet, blade, and his own bare hands.

Bet you he's a smart sociopath, the kind that does well in midlevel management, all fur coat and no knickers—and willing to shed blood without a second thought if it's to defend his position.

As she stood gazing at the circular darkness which has swallowed them, tears gushed from her eyes, and she swore within her that if she heard Ezinma cry she would rush into the cave to defend her against all the gods in the world. She would die with her.

We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.

veáis precisado a combatir con algún caballero, acordaos de lo que ahora os quiero decir y rogar: si vos lo vencéis, de modo que él ya no pueda defenderse de vos ni oponérseos y se vea obligado a ponerse en vuestra merced, pensad en tenerle merced y a pesar de ello no lo matéis.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

Powerful messages that defend life and celebrate true heroines can't be contained, not even by the best efforts of some of the most powerful liberals on the planet.

Whenever you believe that the evil outside you is greater than the evil inside you, a heartfelt pursuit of Christ will be replaced by a zealous fighting of the "evil" around you. A celebration of the grace that rescues you from your own sin will be replaced by a crusade to rescue the church from the ills of the surrounding culture. Christian maturity becomes defined as a willingness to defend right from wrong. The gospel is reduced to participation in Christian causes.

I believe that the world is full of danger I want to protect you from it Only because inside me is the same impulse as that danger

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

Why, after decades of internal violence and foreign aggression, did the world's first Socialist society implode without even trying to defend itself? One answer, of course, is that it never really existed in the first place: that, in the words of the historian Martin Malia, 'there is no such thing as socialism, and the Soviet Union built

Compliments in America can take an almost aggressive form, as if the speaker needs to defend her own shortcomings rather that simply to rejoice in another's ability.

defend Miss Haller from the Nazis. In the final chapter, the ghosts saw off the spies and word came through that Miss Haller's father had been smuggled out of Germany. Gillian

Arthur's motto was that might should never make right. Right should make right. The duty of knights and men is to fight for those who can't fight for themselves." -Phantom

I won't let anyone talk to my wife that way, Gray said, his voice with a steely edge. I know that underneath that expensive tux you're nothing but a mama's boy sucking off your father's money and looking for a wealthy woman to keep you doing nothing for the rest of your life. I just want you to understand that beneath my tux is a rough and tumble cowboy who will kick your ever-loving ass to hell and back if you ever talk about my wife in derogatory terms again.

I need debate and dialogue with others to test my own thinking and to make a decision. I test others' convictions or opinions by pushing on their arguments and seeing how strongly they will defend them. When challenged, do people shrink away from their own views, or do they stand behind them? When pressed, do people offer more data to support their position, or do they simply repeat the same things in a louder voice?