Quotes About Guarding

Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

It is a measure of the effort we are prepared to expend to guard against deception when accuracy is at a premium.

Eye contact creates wars, creates fights, but eye contact also creates arousal. I felt the weird, pointless tingles, and I read his face and his smile. I tried to look inside him, see what he was feeling, while at the same time guarding myself.

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Precaution is better than cure.

My main improvement on defense has just been my coaches. They've been teaching me defensive schemes, how to guard guys, and how to use my length.

I try to attack the glass, get rebounds and create possessions for my teammates because that's what I'm here to do. But if they face guard or put two or three guys on me I'm going to keep going to the glass and keep being relentless.

People aren't used to guarding this kind of size and I'm able to add a little finesse to my game so it has flavor and I'm a playmaker so I can create for my teammates and when I have to finish I'm gonna finish.

Stop her before they notice, before they notice and take her

Rose, will you come with me to the feeders?" asked Christian. He spoke in a flat tone, and his expression was unreadable. "I'm not guarding you today." "Yeah, well, I miss your charming company." Mead, Richelle (2008-11-13). Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 287). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

There was too little space for their own—and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties.

I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while. It was my turn to be quiet. Did you take it? Would I be calling you if I had? Maybe, I said. He laughed. True, but I'm not going to take it. Why not? Friendship. Try again, I said. I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you. Comforting...

There are a few things that even sarcasm can't protect you from.

Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

I am of the old-fashioned conviction that reading is a pleasure to be carefully guarded at all times

and all of the books are behind metal grates, protected like the precious objects they are.

But the guarding of our desires is more than fighting a rear-guard defensive action against temptations from the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must take the offensive. Paul directs us to set our hearts on things above, that is, on spiritual values (Colossians 3:1).

Derek frowned, looking down. "That's fine... I'll just, uh, stand here. And protect you. Yes. That is definitely what I will be doing.

Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

I cross somebody once a game. Now whether you make an elite shot or whatever determines if it's a highlight, but I cross someone once a game, James Harden crosses someone four or five times a game. When you're guarding guys, you have to understand it's going to happen.

Your No. 1 priority as a defender is to keep the ball out of the back of the net.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.