Circle Wagons Quotes

#1. Look. Studies show FEAR sets attitudes/tolerance to change. Fearful people reject foreign, alien, strange. Circle wagons. Pull in horizons. Horizons of time. Of tolerance. Of risk. Of Dreams.

David Brin

#2. Everybody forgets names and faces, and it's just inconsiderate to expect someone who isn't your boss or your sister-in-law to know exactly who you are.

Letitia Baldrige

#3. When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.

Gary Weiss

#4. Green Day is politically brain-dead but I love the little monkeys.

Ted Nugent

#5. It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

Sally Quinn

#6. Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.

Aleister Crowley

#7. Tiny, the next time that you try to set me up with a girl with a secret boyfriend can you at least INFORM me that she has a secret boyfriend? Also, if you don't call me back within five minutes, I'm going to assume you found a way back to Evanston. Furthermore, you are an asshat. That is all.

John Green

#8. It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

Akshay Kumar

#9. All the drawing lacks
is the final touch: To add
eyes to the dragon

Diane Duane

#10. I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.

Janis Joplin

#11. Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

Edgar Bergen

#12. I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course." --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.

Lisa M. Prysock

#13. If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

Steve Sabol

#14. I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire.

Cindy Sheehan

#15. I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.

Jorge Garcia

#16. It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

Andy Hargreaves

#17. a good exercise when worrying is to ask yourself, What am I choosing not to see right now? Worry may well be distracting you from something important. For

Gavin De Becker

#18. Rachel found herself wishing that the week would never end-that her father could stay here forever-but knew he couldn't. If there was one thing she had learned in her brief time at Kalaupapa, it was that all things end.

Alan Brennert

#19. I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.

Christine Pelosi