Defence Quotes

240 Defence quotes by 204 unique authors

Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off. Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252) — Suzanne Collins
All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left… — Robert Green Ingersoll
She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, lonelinessâ€¦ but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable. — Lisa Kleypas
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate… — C.S. Lewis
He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection… — Elizabeth Gaskell
In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for… — J M Coetzee
One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature,… — Louis Althusser
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible. — Oswald Spengler
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from… — Jane Austen
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive… — R. D. Laing
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his… — Anais Nin
GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear — Tom Stoppard
I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I canâ€™t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you… — Vita Sackville-West
If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence. — Maggie Stiefvater
Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-â€”that and such hope as I bring. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines… — Irvine Welsh
Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself. — Richard Dawkins
I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" . — John Boyne
Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence. — William Shakespeare
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! — Edmund Burke

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