It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are… — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
Whenever we play the Twins, Torii Hunter has a major impact on defense. He tells the left fielder and the right fielder… — Ken Macha Copy Share Image
Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. — David Korten Copy Share Image
Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator,… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I did not grope the wife of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter or the daughter of Sen. Christopher Coons. I don't put drugs… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
It is true that I voted against the National Defense Authorization Act, because when I campaigned in Texas I told voters in… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Unselfishness and defense are our two biggest things. That's our starting point. If you have those two things as foundational building blocks,… — Rick Carlisle Copy Share Image
The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
It would have been a great story if Brooks had went out there and scored 21 points, ... That would have been… — Herman Edwards Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons we ought to re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to constructive cooperation... He appointed… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I'm all in favor of animal rights, but I'd like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“May it not be charged against them!” First Peter 3:15 uses the word defense in a way that denotes the kind of… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980,… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I had a client who just wanted to entertain me the whole time, that is a defense against going deep, in my… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Life is not for believers alone: it is for everyone. The issue of life and its defense and promotion… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world.… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Peace is bad for business. When the former Soviet Union fell apart, the U.S. defense industry was staring into the face of… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I feel a special kinship for our military. Because, unfortunately, I became a wartime president. And committed our military in the defense… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image