Top 76 Always On Guard Quotes
#1. I'm serious when I'm talking to the press because I'm always on guard because I never know what you're going to ask and I never know how you're going to construe my answer, so I try to maintain a pretty even pace when I'm speaking with the media.
Ashton Kutcher
#2. This need to be always on guard was an unmeasured expenditure of energy, the slow siphoning of the essence.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#3. I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.
Jennifer Aniston
#4. I was always on guard and I was always prepared for him to be upset with me. I had lived feeling uneasy and tense for so long.
Brenda Perlin
#5. I'm always on guard around most people. They do not realize how exhausting that is to keep up. That is why afterwards I really need my space.
Tina J. Richardson
#6. I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.
Noah Hawley
#7. People always figure it's the color guard, but seriously, it's the woodwinds you've got to look out for.
Jackson Pearce
#8. We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards.
Brandon Sanderson
#10. Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret ... How do we guard
or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against
our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?
Andy Stanley
#11. Thought you didn't believe in God," I said to Savannah as we moved slowly past the Coast Guard base at the end of the Charleston peninsula. "I don't," Savannah answered, "but I believe in Luke and he believes in God and I always believe in God when I truly need him." "Situational faith," I said.
Pat Conroy
#12. Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
Michael Novak
#13. Always give the appearance that he has plenty of space. It gets him to drop his guard.
Sherry Argov
#14. We thought we'd seen it all. The real horror of war is always waiting for you at home. It's waiting, I tell you. We were so damned happy when we got back. We'd made it. We survived. But it's always waiting. Waiting. You let down your guard. And there it is. You can't ever let up. Give up.
James Anderson
#15. Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.
Jeremy Collier
#16. I've always wanted to shoot a good percentage for my team, because I'm the point guard, and I can take fewer shots, still score more, so that I can get my teammates feeling good about themselves. That was always my feeling - that if I shoot a high percentage, I don't have to shoot a ton.
Steve Nash
#17. When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.
Adolph Malan
#18. Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.
Saint John Chrysostom
#19. I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away.
You won't always be here.
But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - The work was free. Keep it so.
L. Ron Hubbard
#20. My great beard. I am his queen, but I will always be his cub as well, and he will always guard me
George R R Martin
#21. That's something a point guard can always work on, with keeping his dribble alive a little better. It's so important.
Steve Blake
#22. I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit .300 in the big leagues.
Stan Musial
#23. Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.
P. J. Soles
#24. A guard was sitting on it, smoking a cigarette. He was black. Newt always felt guilty in the presence of black Americans, in case they blamed him for two hundred years of slave trading.
Terry Pratchett
#25. Made me more aware of how we should always guard our tongues and never walk away from those we love in anger. Life lesson learned.
Lora Ann
#26. I respect the media. But periodically things come up. Like the guy in Toronto [CP24 Interview]. This is what I run into, also. Everybody that helps you is not necessarily your friend. And everybody that fights you is not necessarily your enemy. So you always have to be on guard.
Mike Tyson
#27. Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.
Milan Kundera
#28. In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen.
Helen Frankenthaler
#29. People instinctively let down their guard when they saw a limp, an illness, a flaw in someone else. Not out of compassion but because it made them feel superior. Stronger. Those people, Gamache knew, did not always last long. It was not a useful instinct.
Louise Penny
#30. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus Christ is the man-God.
Victor Hugo
#31. Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Mark Twain
#32. I think that in our culture there is this message to males that any time you can have sex with an attractive female, you should do it. But for females you always have to guard yourself against it, sort of keep sex at bay. You don't want to get a reputation, especially when you are under age.
Alissa Nutting
#33. No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.
Marisa De Los Santos
#34. Everyone's gone through a breakup, and I've dated girls in the past where ... I've never had a messy breakup, thankfully, but I'm never the one to end it. I'm always caught off guard as to why things ended because I guess I'm oblivious in a way.
Charlie Puth
#35. . . . no matter how many centuries you had to get ready, prophecies always caught you off guard.
Chris Evans
#36. I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.
Joe Bradley
#37. For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.
Annie Dillard
#38. You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.
Anthony Anderson
#39. When we're young, and we dream of love and fulfillment, we think perhaps of moon-drenched Parisian nights or walks along the beach at sundown. No one tells us that the greatest moments of a lifetime are fleeting, unplanned and nearly always catch us off guard.
Jean Harper
#40. Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.
Billy Graham
#41. But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates.
N.K. Jemisin
#42. I've always had a very binge and then cleanse approach to casual sex for that very reason. We long for an intimate connection, but that longing makes us feel vulnerable. Therefore, we guard our hearts for self-preservation, which barricades that intimacy we are longing for.
Maggie Young
#43. I think there are pieces of yourself that you will always guard.
Kiera Cass
#44. There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.
Patton Oswalt
#45. Two things are always happening in acting. On the one hand, it's a team sport. We're all pulling together. But on the other, you have to look after your own character. Guard their interests.
Domhnall Gleeson
#46. Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good master, but they mean to be master.
Daniel Webster
#47. No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.
Tess Gerritsen
#48. In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.
Megan Fox
#49. I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.
Adrian McKinty
#50. Since Satan is always breathing down our necks, and is ready and scheming to plunge us into a thousand perils, we ought to be no less watchful and on our guard.
John Calvin
#51. The guy is a total idiot. Forget him," Luke said, and wiped the lone tear that was running down her cheek. "I promise I won't ever do that to you."
"Please don't make promises if you can't keep them," she said, feeling her guard going up a little.
"I always keep my promises.
Kat Green
#52. St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
Pope John Paul II
#53. I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.
William Wilberforce
#54. Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.
Frederick Buechner
#55. I've been fortunate to be short my entire life. There's only one position I've ever had to play, and that's point guard. So I've always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.
Chris Paul
#56. I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
Ted Dekker
#57. I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!
Jasper Fforde
#58. I'm a point guard, I've always been a point guard, I've played point guard all my life. Personally, I feel the best point guards make other players look better and create their own shot. I fit in that category.
Chauncey Billups
#59. Letterman is very intimidating because he's so funny, so you have to be really prepared. Also, he's a little squeamish about certain things, so you have to always be on guard to please him.
Norm MacDonald
#60. One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
Publilius Syrus
#61. What I am afraid of is ... Gandhi. He has brains and always tried to put me in the wrong. I have to be on guard and alert all the time.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#62. You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.
Mike Carey
#63. I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.
Rihanna
#64. We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.
Saint Basil
#65. We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.
Steve Forbes
#66. Your dreams are your spirit, your soul and without them your are dead. You must guard your dreams always. Always. Lest someone steal them away from you. I know what it is to have your dreams stolen. I know what it is to be dead. Guard your dreams. Always guard your dreams.
Brom
#67. I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
Francis Ford Coppola
#68. They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task.
Mark Ruffalo
#70. For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#71. Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
Amy Lowell
#72. Being kind is one of the hardest thing to be in high school because you're so terrified of being cut down yourself that you're always on your guard. But don't be like that. Be kind and you will be truly different. A standout. Unique and happy.
Wendy Wunder
#73. I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when people drop their guard and I ask them what they really think.
Michael Eisner
#74. This implies that purification is a lifelong process, not something that is applied once and then forgotten. Purity of heart never survives a passive relationship. One must always guard his or her heart.
Hamza Yusuf
#75. God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster
#76. I love you, America Singer. As long as I live, I'll love you." There was some deep emotion in his voice, and it caught me off guard.
"I love you, Aspen. You'll always be my prince.
Kiera Cass
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