Defense Quotes · Page 30

I grew up playing defense all the time with my older brothers and the older players.

— Andrew Wiggins

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

— Francois Mauriac

The best defense is a good story.

— Frederick Busch

We got victims out there that are getting shot four and five times, point blank range. That's not self-defense. You're not going…

— Jesse Ventura

The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency…

— John P. Wheeler III

A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean…

— Joseph Sobran

Offense is great, but defense wins championships.

— Brittney Griner

Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.

— Saint Peter

I got into cooking out of self-defense.

— Mark Bittman

My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their…

— Leonard Peltier

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs…

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against…

— Ralph Nader

I always felt defense was a big part of my game.

— Cody Bellinger

A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender…

— John Welwood

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

— Dante Alighieri

Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in…

— George W. Bush

I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're…

— Bill Belichick

There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back…

— Hermann Hesse

To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on…

— Erich Fromm

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before…

— Bono

If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War…

— Rudy Giuliani

In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism…

— Douglas MacArthur

That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say,…

— Kobe Bryant

Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S.…

— Daniel Drezner

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why…

— Peter Ackroyd