Defend Myself Quotes

#1. Death by hanging ... I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

Hans Frank

#2. There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

Sean Young

#3. I'd way rather defend myself against a man with a stick than a social worker with good intentions.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#4. She struggled with all her might, but he was much too heavy and strong.
With a sigh, Amelia finally said, "You win. How can I defend myself in a situation like this?"
"That's a good question."
With a satisfied grin, he got to his feet and said, "I'll show you.

Linda Weaver Clarke

#5. I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts.

Andrew Thomas

#6. I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

Andrej Pejic

#7. I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation.

Paul Auster

#8. I have encountered in this world riff-raff and good people. I lose. I win. I defend myself when I am attacked. I take when someone has taken from me. But I beg you to believe me; I have never done an act of espionage against France. Never. Never.

Mata Hari

#9. I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.

Henry Rollins

#10. If I should object to force I will be arrested. If I object to arrest I will be clubbed. If I defend myself against clubbing I will be shot. These procedures are known as The Rule of Law.

Edward Abbey

#11. I don't need to be on guard to defend myself.

Christine Caine

#12. There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me

Elizabeth I

#13. All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgements. My continuing need for her approbation is pathetic. Twice now I have stopped myself on the street to remonstrate with her, a crazy old coot talking to himself.

Mordecai Richler

#14. A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.

Thomas Hobbes

#15. As FIFA leaked information to the media, portraying me as an unethical person, I felt I was left naked, helpless to defend myself, as they repeatedly cut me with a sharp knife.

Chung Mong-joon

#16. Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.

Tanya Tucker

#17. Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic and had to go to special-ed every day and felt stupid about that and got very witty to defend myself.

Dax Shepard

#18. My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically, but I had to be compassionate and understand the position of those abusing me. I had to figure it out and then rise above it.

Saul Rubinek

#19. Do I seem one who will not defend myself? You are her father, so I will make myself clear. Any who seek her harm I will kill. I will rip into them with claw and teeth and separate skin from bone from heart. An enemy, a friends, from within either of our Clans - it does not matter.

Danielle Monsch

#20. One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

Scott Ritter

#21. The voices in my head does not likes attitude of some people. I know how to defend myself, but I do not want to hurt their feelings for ease my pain.

Sammy Toora Powerlifter

#22. I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.

Brian Spellman

#23. I long ago gave up defending humanity. It's beyond me on most days to defend myself.

Lionel Shriver

#24. Between the 'death bridge' and our little chat with the Queen of the Damned, I've decided I should carry a gun at all times; whether it's to defend myself or to put myself out of my own misery," Carmen rambled on nervously. "It's a win-win situation, really.

Kristen Day

#25. I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Conor McGregor

#26. Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

Libba Bray

#27. I defend myself by improving myself.

Sidney Poitier

#28. When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

Sigmund Freud

#29. Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.

Coco J. Ginger

#30. People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.

Skeet Ulrich

#31. He taught me to fight, to defend myself, to stand up for what I believe in, and protect people I love. I thanked him for that lesson after that weekend in New Orleans when some guy put his hands on Delia, and I had to tear him apart.

Jolene Perry

#32. One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

Guy Finley

#33. I had never seen anyone fight and I had never been taught to defend myself. But I knew hurt and never wondered that day what it was I had to do if I didn't want to be hurt again.

Andrew Krivak

#34. I think it's a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don't feel that. You are all my guests, it's not the other way around, that's how I feel.

Lars Von Trier

#35. On a few words of what is real in the world
I nourish myself. I defend myself against
Whatever remains.

Wallace Stevens

#36. I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

Pierre Corneille

#37. Don't put me in a position where I have to defend myself against this again.

C.D. Reiss

#38. Just as I defend myself, therefore,
From all unpleasant happenings however small,
Likewise, I shall act for others' sake
To guard and to protect them with compassion.

Shantideva

#39. I would so much rather be vulnerable and experience existence than be strong and defend myself from it.

Joan Z. Spade

#40. I've had my own anecdotals with old friends, here's a gentleman quoted in the Times about, "I believe my government is suppose to protect me but it has let me down. I resent having to defend myself; I shouldn't have to but at this point I don't feel like I have a choice."

Chuck Todd

#41. I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn't know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.

Jackie Chan

#42. I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitutional rights.

Bobby Seale

#43. I wasn't in a position to defend myself. Sometimes it's a brutal profession. The first thing I thought of at the time was revenge. I have a more levelheaded take on the issue today.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#44. Paige needs someone who has a spotlight," Cass starts. I feel Houston shift, and I keep my eyes at my drink. I should argue with her, be offended or defend myself. But the old me, the girl I was before, wouldn't. She'd agree. "Paige

Ginger Scott

#45. If he had attacked me outright, I might have been able to defend myself. Instead, he exposed my secret as if offering himself to me. I was left mute, listening to my heart pounding in my chest.

Yoko Ogawa

#46. Here, I've learned to defend myself,
I've learned to be stronger,
but one thing I haven't learned, won't let myself learn, is how to enjoy causing someone else pain. If I'm going to become Dauntless, I'm going to do it on my terms, even if that means that a part of me will always be a Stiff.

Veronica Roth

#47. I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of a weapon.

Kahlil Gibran

#48. Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

John Lydon

#49. I had always been proud of my mom. So she'd never back cookies, or sew a Halloween costume, but she could fight monsters. She was tough and smart, and maybe she didn't read bedtime stories, but she had taught me to defend myself against the things that lurked under beds.

Rachel Hawkins

#50. One day I had nothing but my childhood to defend myself ...

Sameh Elsayed

#51. I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.

Teresa Palmer

#52. When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

Camille Paglia

#53. Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

Jim Carrey

#54. I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom.

Marilyn Manson

#55. I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.

Ed Parker

#56. May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

Voltaire

#57. I'm fighting for my life, I have to defend myself. If I don't defend myself, no one else will.

Alex Rodriguez

#58. Really, Mrs. Michaelson, I have been attacked by swords and cannons and guns, but I am weary still, and haven't the heart to defend myself from a soup ladle!

Heather Graham

#59. I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

Martin McDonagh

#60. Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate.

Napoleon III

#61. I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little.

Brenda Perlin

#62. How can I defend myself against what I want?

Henri Cole

#63. I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family
whether it's from an intruder, or whether it's from a government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important.

Joni Ernst

#64. The only way I was able to defend myself was to be able to take punishment. Then I got a lot of respect. They said, "Oh, he's okay, he can take it. Don't hit him." The guys were pretty big, and I had asthma.

Martin Scorsese

#65. I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How can I defend my own sensibilities by writing a nugget of a little catchy pop song?" That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing something really simple.

Andrew Bird

#66. I actually think it is people like myself who have been fighting for our rights to free speech and I would like the right to defend my own right to free speech, not have soldiers doing it for me. I don't think I need soldiers.

Medea Benjamin

#67. If I don't defend for myself, who will?

Wesley T. Calaway

#68. Whatever binds us, ripples through us all. We might not all be shadow, but we are all human. I remind myself every night. I am a man. I always will be.
And I will always, fiercely, defend my loves, to the very end.
Let it come.

Carmen Dominique Taxer

#69. I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself.

Rick Boucher

#70. Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#71. Given the chance, would I go back? Back to the time when my parents were alive? When my biggest problem was a past-due paper? When I didn't need to know how to take care of myself, ride a horse, or defend someone I loved? Back to the time when I didn't know Grey?

Kirby Howell

#72. I don't want to be creating new foreign policy for - for my country or in any way to distance myself in the foreign policy of - of our nation, but we respect the right of a nation to defend itself.

Mitt Romney

#73. I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over [its] enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death. I Myself will defend it as My own glory.

Maria Faustina Kowalska

#74. With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.

Michael Douglas

#75. I have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and I will ... I have come to peace with myself, my God, and my cause. Blood will flow in the streets, Steve, Good vs Evil. Free men vs. Socialist Wannabe Slaves. Pray it is not your blood, my friend.

Timothy McVeigh

#76. But I never thought of who he wasn't, I never had to explain or defend him to myself, I didn't even care what we talked about.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#77. I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

Carlos Castaneda

#78. For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights of those who have none was the reason I became a journalist in the first place. Now, I see the human rights movement as opposing human rights.

Stephen Kinzer

#79. May God defend me from myself.

Michel De Montaigne