Quotes About Guarded

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

to be able to impose on the public in such a case; but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark.

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

I am quite stingy when it comes to giving runs away.

Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'

I don't like opening up in front of everyone.

I keep lot of my opinions to myself.

I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

In the first place, I was never a very outgoing, public person. That was a facade.

You remember sitting, don't you?" Esme said, mocking. "Shhh!" Anton sniped. "I'm trying to figure this out." "Yes, sitting is very distracting," I said. "Getting blown up in this game definitely is distracting," he said. And when he noticed me rolling my eyes at him, he muttered. "Do you honestly think he'd set traps inside his own home base when the outside is so well guarded?" I asked.

The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded

Mountain was being watched by too many

Everybody's got their secrets; I carry mine like a jagged stone in my shoe.

This failure to build trust is damaging because it sets the tone for the second dysfunction: fear of conflict. Teams that lack trust are incapable of engaging in unfiltered and passionate debate of ideas. Instead, they resort to veiled discussions and guarded comments.

I'm a fucking porcupine with points.

Lunatics with a speculative bent can sometimes stumble overly close to certain guarded cosmic secrets.

I understood then how guarded I'd been before with men, how little of me I'd let them see.

There are no secrets here. Everybody knows everything about everybody. Or they would like to think they do. Secrets have to be well guarded, and the price is high.

That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.

I was a Versace perfume girl at Saks Fifth Avenue, and Rihanna actually came up to the counter and asked for something. And she wouldn't even take her sunglasses off! She was so mean to me. Not mean, but, like, guarded. I don't blame her, though.

Mama always used to say that love is never lost, even if it's not returned in the way you hope or expect. "Put it on out there," she said. "Lay your heart on the line, and don't be afraid of getting it broken. Broken hearts heal. Guarded hearts just turn to stone.

he was always circumspect . . . and always careful to avoid any relationship which could ever become more than friendship. But