Defenses Quotes
104 quotes by 96 authors
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It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How…
— Ernie Banks
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But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows…
— Hans Zinsser
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A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.
— H. L. Mencken
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You…
— Cesare Pavese
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We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.
— Al Attles
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Judo is the way to the most effective use of both physical and spiritual strength. By training you in attacks and defenses it refines your…
— Kano Jigoro
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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty…
— James Hillman
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I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent ISIL attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble our efforts to…
— Barack Obama
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If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently…
— John Bertram Phillips
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When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous…
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we…
— Robert Grudin
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To get past your ego and its defenses you need to get quiet, be brave, and listen to your inner voices....When you embrace the messages…
— Debbie Ford
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The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like…
— Joni Mitchell
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Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start abandoning our defenses. We learn…
— Katrina Kenison
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But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let people in to…
— George W. Bush
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But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society,…
— Ralph Ellison
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Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.
— Chris Bliss
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future.…
— Gerald Jampolsky
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