Best 665 quotes in «defense quotes» category

I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

I was no suffragette, but I was pretty sure the he-can’t-control-himself defense was a big, stinky load of horseshit.

I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.

I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and the Defense Department.

J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.

Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.

I will not speak to Vladimir Putin personally until we've rebuilt the 6th Fleet a little bit right under his nose; rebuilt the missile defense program in Poland right under his nose; and conducted a few military exercises in the Baltic states.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.

Michele Flournoy, by the way, is not just a talented and bright person. She was Hillary Clinton's secretary of defense in-waiting. So for her to give General [James] Mattis her support, that says something significant.

Moderation in the defense of liberty is no virtue.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

[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 alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

Millions for defense but not a cent for tribute.

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death.

My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.

My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase.

My last defense / Is the present tense.

My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.

My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.

My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

My peers are all in sensitive jobs - at the C.I.A., the National Security Council, working for the Department of Defense. They can't stand up for me in public.

My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.

Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity of every human person with courageous determination. Christ is with you: be not afraid!

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

No matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. Ther's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.