Best Defenses Sayings

104 Defenses quotes by 95 unique authors

[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of… — Susan Sontag
Books aren’t just my defenses, the sandbags I use to fortify my position; they are also the building blocks of my soul, and I am… — Jonathan Hull
At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up yet… — David J. Lieberman
Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate. — Henry H. Arnold
The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of… — Bill McKibben
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick… — James F. Cooper
Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. — Elizabeth Moon
Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers,… — Lyndon B. Johnson
If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I… — Epictetus
Thimerosal is commonly used as an antiseptic/preservative in vaccines in the range of 1:10,000 to 1:20,000. Welsh's and Hunter's 1940 findings, applied to current thimerosal… — Jamie Murphy
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when… — Marianne Williamson
The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war. — John Quincy Adams
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. — Vince Lombardi
If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems… — Salman Rushdie
Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop… — Douglas Rushkoff
I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something… — Jeanette Winterson
An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something… — David Foster Wallace
My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how… — John Lennon
You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in… — Joyce Carol Oates
There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my… — Hermann Hesse
It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart. — David Gilmour
I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one… — Margaret Atwood
I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the… — Hermann Hesse
But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment.… — George Carlin
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips… — Rollo May

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