Guarded Quotes
164 Guarded quotes by 143 unique authors
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive…
— Barry Commoner
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Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity,…
— Joseph Story
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In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights are the essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its…
— James Madison
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I think where I've instinctively found myself is that I am somewhat guarded in my public life. Being interviewed or being photographed or just in…
— Annette Bening
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It started off really…claustrophobic. I feel like I was really really protected. Really guarded with myself. I feel like they [Def Jam] were giving me…
— Rihanna
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When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious…
— Claire Bloom
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Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite…
— James Madison
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According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan,…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The coop is guarded from the inside.
— Aravind Adiga
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May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and…
— Gautama Buddha
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By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.
— Gautama Buddha
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Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of…
— Gautama Buddha
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In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect…
— Stephen Halbrook
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Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.
— Unknown Author
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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer…
— Gautama Buddha
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In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses,…
— Unknown Author
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In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific…
— Ronald Reagan
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The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like…
— Alonzo King
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I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You…
— Bharati Mukherjee
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I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at…
— Viola Davis
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It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears…
— Jack Straw
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Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the…
— Dogen
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At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried…
— Susana Martinez
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The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.
— Carmen Laforet
Who Wrote These Guarded Quotes
143 authors contributed a total of 164 Guarded Quotes, led by these top contributors: