Defend Quotes

1167 Defend quotes by 868 unique authors

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. — Oscar Wilde
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against… — Samuel Adams
..Washington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death.… — Marcus Luttrell
Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them… — David Sedaris
So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for… — George R. R. Martin
Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every… — Robert Green Ingersoll
In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we… — Diane Ackerman
If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think… — Terry Goodkind
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have yet to evolve… — Naomi Wolf
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it… — Arthur C. Clarke
I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright hostile. You won't… — Joan Bauer
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God… — Yann Martel
There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order… — Marilynne Robinson
My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all… — Seth Grahame-Smith
The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged… — John Marshall
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive… — Primo Levi
I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something,… — Hillary Clinton
You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by… — Glenn Beck
What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by… — Amitav Ghosh
Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved;… — Salman Rushdie
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world,… — Pablo Picasso
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. — Yann Martel

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