Quotes About Guarded

I guess it's the Russian side of me that takes me a long time to get close to people.

I'm a very secretive person.

I'm a very secretive person. That's how I grew up. My father was very secretive.

I am not secretive, but I don't feel the need to say things out loud.

Everybody has secrets.

The best businesses are the ones that are the most paranoid.

The soldier talks, guardedly, as some soldiers do,

Rome was ruled by a small elite of noble families who shamelessly manipulated the political system and jealously guarded the executive offices for themselves.

I was a sheltered kid.

Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

One of the rookie mistakes first-time entrepreneurs often make is to be too guarded about their idea - in fact, many will actually spend their first $25,000 on patent lawyers without ever fully vetting their product.

They didn't love or hate anything, or at least so that you could see; it was just that they were in the habit of never showing their hand.

He didn't wear his heart on his sleeve, exactly, but he did keep it in a place where I could see it.

I don't really like being vulnerable.

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.

I'm not as open as I used to be. I'm a little bit more filtered, and it kind of sucks, but it's the price you pay to get paid.

adamant that Carl never let on that he felt his cover was

Don't you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.

Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.

T]here remains [in some parts of the country] a strong bias towards the old error, that without some sort of alliance or coalition between Govt. & Religion neither can be duly supported. Such indeed is the tendency to such a coalition, and such its corrupting influence on both parties, that the danger cannot be too carefully guarded agst.

defensively.

It was then that she found that he had laid flat, himself, every defence against her: that she could, if she wished, enter and be received within this, the long-guarded citadel. And so she discovered, fragment by fragment, what he had never told anyone: the inner truth of all those events which, strung together, made up his unruly life.

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

You know I don't like to talk about my personal life.