Top 60 Best Shield Quotes
#1. Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery
Charles Simmons
#2. A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. Power is the best shield that the disordered personality can conceive against being revealed as the laughing stock he secretly suspects himself to be.
William Donaldson
#5. Carla Crumworthy, heiress to the Crumworthy panty-shield fortune. She had come to complain about the collagen injections that Rudy Graveline had administered to give her full, sensual lips, which is just what every rheumatoid seventy-one-year-old woman
Carl Hiaasen
#6. Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem,
Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield:
The worth of all men by their end esteem,
And then praise, or due reproach them yield.
Edmund Spenser
#7. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome ... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).
Robert A. Heinlein
#8. It's only a matter of time before it all starts to fall apart, before things start to fall off. Short legs, long body. The kind of person who in the Middle Ages would come up over the hill on his horse, and they'd say, 'Get Wogan,' and I'd be there with my shield, the first to die.
Terry Wogan
#9. When we are covering our service member by the shield of prayer, we are engaging God's defense system of protection.
Lisa Nixon Phillips
#10. History of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#11. Sometimes I shield myself from finding out what's really going on with people for fear I'll be held responsible. Because with information often comes responsibility; if we know, we might be required to do something
Kelly Minter
#12. When a warrior goes down, you pick up his shield and go play in honor of him.
Chip Kelly
#13. True strength isn't in killing - or ignoring - your opponent, it's in having the will to shield those who need your protection.
Ilona Andrews
#14. Those two moods are so different! Is everyone in your family like that?"
....
"Unquestionably."
Baden nodded. "Good to know. I'll buy a shield and some binoculars.
Kiera Cass
#15. Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word ... Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe.
Corrie Ten Boom
#16. Never trust those who would be your shield. They feed on your ignorance and darkness. It is best to look at things directly and be unafraid.
James Rollins
#17. You stiff-necked fool," he muttered, "too proud to listen. Can you eat pride, Stark? Will honor shield your children?
George R R Martin
#18. My father, never chooses me for anything. Unless he needs a human shield. Thirty years and all I am to him is a hunk of meat to block buck shot. Told you dad needed me. Who's the best man now?
Christopher Titus
#19. Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,
but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,
regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.
Tyrtaeus
#20. For a shield from the storm, for a friend, for a love to keep me safe and warm ... I turn to you. For the strength to be strong, for the will to carry on ... for everything you do, for everything thats true, I turn to you.
Christina Aguilera
#21. But you, O LORD, are r a shield s about me, my glory, and t the lifter of my head.
Anonymous
#22. He couldn't change the fact of what he was, nor would he be able to shield Amelia from all the arrows that would be aimed at the wife of a gypsy. But he would be damned if he would let her make her way through a merciless world without him.
Lisa Kleypas
#23. Surely," he said, "you don't doubt Samuel Rain's genius. Are you a monkey?
Nalini Singh
#24. Fear and anger always come hand in hand. Anger is my hiding place from fear, my shield and my sword against it.
Jim Butcher
#25. Lee, apparently protected by an invisible Badass Shield, was simply standing in the middle of the mayhem, staring at the burning remains of the car. Luke, much like Lee, was standing smack in the chaos, pieces of car on fire all around him, and his eyes were on me.
Kristen Ashley
#26. I always knew I was different and that people had opinions about me. I guess I learned as best as I can to shield out a lot and live my life from within.
Matisyahu
#27. I've won his heart, but it's like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it's not really marriage - not like the marriage you have with Cam - until he's willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.
Lisa Kleypas
#28. Now he knew his way around a ward-and-shield or two. He could chuck a magic missile with the best of them. He was a damn one-man magic-missile crisis.
Lev Grossman
#29. You put up this steel armor around yourself in the form of hostility and disinterest - whichever works to shield you best at the moment, but that's not who you are.
Pauline Creeden
#30. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the life of your betters.
Robertson Davies
#31. Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy.
John F. Kerry
#32. Feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect. I'm sure she didn't mean it that way, though. I'm sure she was doing what she thought best.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#33. What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.
Hannah
#34. To fully relate to another, one must first relate to oneself. If we cannot embrace our own aloneness, we will simply use the other as a shield against isolation.
Irvin D. Yalom
#35. Han will have that shield down,' " Aech quoted. " 'We've got to give him more time!'
Ernest Cline
#36. PSA3.3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
Anonymous
#37. If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
John Updike
#39. Sometimes shit happens even if you have a shit shield
Nelson DeMille
#40. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.
George R R Martin
#41. He's usually so dour. But not now, not with me, and I like it. He doesn't interact with others without the shield he puts in front of him.
Lena Black
#42. Some Saian mountaineer
Struts today with my shield.
I threw it down by a bush and ran
When the fighting got hot.
Life seemed somehow more precious.
It was a beautiful shield.
I know where I can buy another
Exactly like it, just as round.
Archilochos
#44. Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
Ferdinand Marcos
#46. Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.
Marlon Riggs
#47. In private life, human beings spend a great deal of time in seclusion behind closed doors (e.g., in bathrooms and bedrooms) and other partitions designed to shield their bodies from prying eyes. Scientists have determined that too much visual monitoring can be harmful to human health.
David B. Givens
#48. Oh my lord, I hurt," he mumbled, licking his lips and spitting out a piece of his helmet face shield. Shatterproof my ass. Slowly
Evan Currie
#49. I was trying to be a human shield. I thought if he shouted at me and got it out of his system, he'd have nothing left for you.
Sylvain Reynard
#50. Sword and shield, flesh and bone, I am your man, Sigurd Haraldarson. As long as the sun shines and the world endures, henceforth and for evermore.
Giles Kristian
#52. When thing are at it's worse you dig deep and finish your mission or be carried out on your shield.
Cung Le
#53. There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#54. I fended them off as best I could while trying to shield my eyes but, tragically, I'd left my flamethrower in my other suit.
Alexis Hall
#55. Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.
Joe Murray
#56. Life is unfair and there are winners and losers, regardless of how much overprotective parents attempt to shield their offspring from reality.
Jen Lancaster
#57. Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want us to be overwhelmed in everlasting destruction, for He has ordained His Son to be the salvation of the world.
John Calvin
#59. For they are rebellious against You. But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult in You. For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O LORD, You surround him with favor as with a shield. (Psalm 5)
Charles R. Swindoll
#60. These same oxygen atoms, normally found in pairs (O2), also combined in threes to form ozone (O3) in the upper atmosphere, which serves as a shield that protects Earth's surface from most of the Sun's molecule-hostile ultraviolet photons.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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