Quotes About Defending

I never thought I'd have to be fighting for my reputation and the poor horse's reputation.

I've been on both sides; I've interviewed people, and I do an okay job, I guess. But it's awful. Because you feel like you have to defend your life, which is such an interesting concept. It's not an easy process to sit down and talk about, 'What's your motivation?' Because as I'm answering, I'm working it out for myself at the same time.

None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew what it did. From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task of defending art.

As time passed, events became mutable. People justified their actions, and the more shame they felt about a memory, the more they chewed it over, fretting and defending and editing, until they could live with it.

My uncle, my dad always made sure I had guard skills. But as far as defending everybody, that wasn't really my mindset until my rookie year.

As a Canadian, I've always approached international history as an outsider, neither attacking nor defending key decisions - those were made by actors who are also major figures within national historical traditions for American and British scholars.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.

But until then, He has given us dominion, and with dominion comes the responsibility of defending ourselves. When God created the animals, He also instilled in them the instinct of self-preservation. And they defend themselves by either fight or flight. And when He created mankind, He also gave us the ability and the obligation to defend our lives and our families from all harm, whether evil or benign.

La justicia pública decide seguramente sobre esas cosas con mayor severidad que yo; ella tiene el deber de proteger despiadadamente las costumbres establecidas y las convenciones legales; está obligada a juzgar y no a disculpar. Yo, sin embargo, en tanto que persona privada, no veo por qué he de adoptar el papel de juez; prefiero actuar de defensor. Personalmente, me causa mayor satisfacción comprender a los hombres que condenarlos.

Nowhere else would Napoleonic troops encounter soldiers who fought as fanatically or bravely when defending a position; a famous epigram said that you not only had to kill the Russian soldier, you had to then push him over.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.

Expected utility theory wasn't exactly wrong. It simply did not understand itself, to the point where it could not defend itself against seeming contradictions. The theory's failure to explain people's decisions, Danny and Amos wrote, "merely demonstrates what should perhaps be obvious, that non-monetary consequences of decisions cannot be neglected, as they all too often are, in applications of utility theory.

whereas malice was the beginning and end of Laurence Strange's character, the new manservant was a more natural blend of light and shade. He possessed a great deal of good sense and was as energetic in defending others from real injury as he was in revenging imaginary insults to himself.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself.

Christian apologetics is the application of biblical truth to unbelief.

If a man is to die defending a field, let the field be his field, the land his land, the people his people.

Scoring lots of goals in Italy is much more difficult: they are experts in defending.

Italy was the hardest league to score goals in. Those guys just love defending.

As soon as you are born, you're given a name, a religion, a nationality and a race. You spend the rest of your life defining and defending a fictional identity.

Thank you." "For?" "Defending my honor. When Adolin does that, someone usually gets stabbed. Your way was pleasanter.

The space where writing happens is a unique space that's hard to define, and when you're kicked out of it because you're travelling or distracted, it seems so elusive and hard to defend because you yourself doubt whether it existed.

We can start looking for ways to preserve our heritage outside lazily defending a flag with history steeped in racism and treason.