Quotes About Guarded

She didn't know how, but she understood that he needed to keep people at a distance, that he didn't want to know them, or see them, not really see them. Somewhere along the line, he'd been hurt. Deeply. And he was going to make sure it didn't happen again.

O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well to leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of Fate, lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel stay those who to thy sacred portals come to waste the gifts of Freedom.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go. Call that a strength or a failing, whatever.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

You're lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you've locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you're like that, unguarded, than when you're awake. When you're awake you're like someone with her eyes closed, watching a movie on the inside of your eyelids. I can't reach you anymore. Once upon a time I could, but not now, and not for a long time.

sterile." "Or they were very careful, and

broadcasting from the Edificio Libertador in Buenos Aires. It's the headquarters for the Army and one of the most heavily guarded buildings in the country.

I have a good poker face because I am half dead inside.

Dass eine berühmte Bibliothek von einer Frau verwünscht wird, ist für eine berühmte Bibliothek völlig bedeutungslos. Ehrwürdig und gelassen, mit all ihren Schätzen sicher an ihrem Busen verwahrt, schläft sie selbstzufrieden und wird, was mich angeht, für immer so weiterschlafen.

he was amazingly tight-lipped, even for a guy. He was guarded, taciturn, which was probably hell on anyone in a relationship with him.

Like small animals sheltered deep in their den

Although he kept up his contentious front, Tommy Giacondia was gone on the inside, rendered totally harmless.

Im a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me... And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of. - Maximum Ride.

I am happiest in public, working in my world. Then I can be the star. That I can do. When I am not working, I am more guarded, set apart. It's not my life, that. I like interactions, but interaction that is not forced.

I'm getting guarded like nobody else in the country is being guarded, scouted on like no one else in the country is.

Saying good-bye on 'Nurse Jackie' was a really big deal, so I'm sure I was keeping myself guarded from ever having to feel anything like that again on another job, especially a death scene.

The cautious seldom err.

Griff had the guarded face of a man who had much to lose by the wrong choice, although he had never had anything to lose. Griff's smile visited his face like a stranger who was only asking directions on his way through to another town.

I insist on remaining aloof, self-absorbed, lovingly nursing my suspicions.

Sure." Olivia smirked. "Good ol' New York Public Library. I'm sure it's up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.

Oh, Lord, she thought. This was crazy. She was being haunted by one ghost and guarded by another.

yet Bennie, like most highly defended people, is total mush beneath the carapace.