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104 Defenses quotes by 95 unique authors

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.… — Alfred Hitchcock
The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from… — Voltairine de Cleyre
On Max Yasgur’s six hundred acres, everyone dropped their defenses and became a huge extended family. Joining together, getting into the music and each other,… — Michael Lang
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the… — Charles Tilly
Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical… — Steven Johnson
I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child. — Peter Gabriel
"Chess has definitely helped me understand a lot of the strategy of football. In chess, good offense is often an exercise in putting multiple points… — Unknown Author
The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what… — Gary Zukav
Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow… — Matt Rees
Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important… — Beth Moore
There are basically two approaches to solving the problem of terrorism. One is that you understand the mind of the terrorist in order to establish… — Jude Wanniski
A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots,… — John Welwood
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for… — Betsy Lerner
Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people. — Widad Akrawi
People don't like to be lectured to, but if you can make them laugh, their defenses come down, and for the time being they've accepted… — Paul Krassner
Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality… — Thomas Keating
Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks… — Kim Stanley
Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power with… — Darrel Ray
So I’m putting my defenses up, cause I don’t wanna fall in love. If I ever did that. I think I’d have a heart attack. — Demi Lovato
...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 to the death… — G. Edward Griffin
You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set… — Elizabeth Moon
Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our… — Ronald Reagan
My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious. — Mike Tyson
Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes… — David Richo
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change… — Wendy Beckett

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