Best 665 quotes in «defense quotes» category

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.

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

Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

My last defense / Is the present tense.

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

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

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

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 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 Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

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

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.

New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that he is open to letting transgender people serve in the military. He said there's no reason to prevent people from being generals just because of their privates.

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.

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

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.

No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense.

Notre Dame had a ... sorta... statistical defense.