Quotes About Guarded

Her eyes are different. Wary, guarded, tinged with that human emotion I despise the most: regret.

He had the wild, true heart of a child, in the body of a jaded man. Intensely guarded, unless he chose to give it, yet once given, it was given completely. Without thought to his own survival.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

Owen's eyes, when he turned his face, were guarded. He had no hunger, particularly, but a certain curiosity. Othman could see ideas and desires swimming unseen beneath the surface of Owen's conscious mind. These would have to be brought out.

He had seen this strange and guarded smile on Jadrin's face before. It spoke of power, the kind of which Ashalan had only a cursory grasp. It made him feel he was sitting next to a totatl stranger, and someone not entirely human. It made him afraid.

The general was almost exactly as Shan had imagined him: tall, aloof and with a mystifying Mewtish character, as if he continually guarded secrets.

Brian kept the photograph inside an Old Bible. He knew it would be safe there. Nobody ever opened it.

For a guy who wore layers upon layers of armor, his give-a-shit was showing.

To speak was to open a door into his carefully built fortress, and anything might rush inside.

Todos temos um segredo trancado a sete chaves no sótão da alma.

One of the few journalists to whom she spoke relatively unguardedly recalls: 'The one phrase that really sticks in my mind is that she referred to Manchester as "Victim Country".

It grieved him to think of that paltry, guarded, nut-like thing that was his artistic reputation.

He was thinking that in nearly every person there was some special physical part kept always guarded.

If I thought anybody was messing with me, I was difficult.

to be cautious was to be wise.

I was exhilarated, but also guarded. We were on show. There was nobody around for hundreds of thousands of miles. But there was a camera and a radio and many millions of people watching. We were aware of that, and that causes you to focus your attention and make sure you aren't making mistakes. You're on stage, but it's a very unusual stage.

Better keep such things decently buried.

Her stoic attitude contributed to the air of mystery surrounding her, long before she had any secrets to keep.

so much protection prevented her from acquiring any astuteness or intuitive sense. Concealed beneath her flirtatious attitude was an astonishing naïveté.

Unlike accredited zoos like the Bronx Zoo, San Diego Zoo, the Los Angeles Zoo, these are private menageries, and these people are frightened and there is an existential fear that they are going to be shut down by the government, by PETA, by HSUS, by animal rights groups. So they, generally, are very guarded.

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

The cautious seldom err.

People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.

She would be a tough one to win over. He saw it in the way she quickly hooded her feelings, snatching them in whenever they wandered. She didn't trust easily and depended only on herself