Best 665 quotes in «defense quotes» category

If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable.

If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.

If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War was our insistence on nuclear defense, because they knew they couldn't match us.

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

Ignorance is not a suitable defense

I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

I haven't played defense in a couple years.

Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.

I got into cooking out of self-defense.

I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.

In addition, we will improve the Department of Defense's cyber capabilities. A new threat, a new problem, very expensive, and we're not doing very well with cyber.

I like to think of myself as the running LT. I like to run up the middle and wear defenses down. It's more exciting in between the tackles.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

In Cookie's defense, it was raining wildcats and rabid dogs.

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.

In my lame pescetarian defense, it's very hard to be a girl and say you won't eat something. Refuse one plate of bacon-wrapped pork rinds and you're anorexic. Accept them and you're on the Atkins. Excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and you're bulimic. Best to keep perfectly still and bring an IV of fluids with you to dinner.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

Innocence is its own defense.

In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

I read in self-defense.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level

In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

I suspect that Donald Trump is going to be very tough with those countries that don't spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. He will ask them why should we allow a free-ride policy.

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.

I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

I think of customer service as an offense and not a defense

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.