Defensive Love Quotes

#1. Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.

Lauren Willig

#2. It is a fact that people are always well aware of what is due them.
Unfortunately, they remain oblivious of what they owe to others.

Francis De Sales

#3. The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

Steve Jobs

#4. Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.

Toni Morrison

#5. Defensive devaluation is a protective device that makes love bad, trust unimportant and people "no darn good any way". People who have been deeply hurt in their relationships will often devalue love so it doesn't hurt so much. And they often become resigned to never loving again.

Henry Cloud

#6. A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop ... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

Verlyn Klinkenborg

#7. There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

Robert Reich

#8. Every time I get my makeup professionally done, I take a photo.

Kylie Jenner

#9. I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda that it is. A positive response might be, "Oh good! I love a mystery. Let's see if we can solve this one, too. Do you have any ideas?

Daniel C. Dennett

#10. There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining one's efforts to securing a little room that shall not be exposed to the fire.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#11. I feel defensive about my character because I really love Andrea, and we share the same heart.

Laurie Holden

#12. I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

Heidi Klum

#13. life ain't fair. It's always slightly one sided

Sunny

#14. I want to dominate the man's world.

Marina Abramovic

#15. At first, I didn't know what to expect but I do say that I love our defensive coordinator, Tim Lewis.

Michael Strahan

#16. And I know I'm sarcastic and defensive and I make a joke out of everything and am highly resistant to anything that reeks of sentimental corniness, but I'm giving you my heart anyway because being with you feels like home, and I know you won't break it.

Shauna Cross

#17. I may say it of our preposterous use of books,
He knew not what to do, and so he read.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.

Jorge Valdano

#19. It's hard to talk about guns without sounding defensive or blustery. I'm pro-gun the same way I'm pro-potato fork. I use them both to gather food for the year, with the caveat that if you break into my house, I won't be waiting for yo at the top of the stairs with a potato fork.

Michael Perry

#20. Love hurts, if rejected or betrayed.
If not at all, then love is all around.

Toba Beta

#21. Becoming more deeply connected with those you admire and love bolsters, in you, the traits you most admire in them. Recognize behaviors that most upset you so, like defensive driving, you see potential "crashes" sooner and avoid them.

Kare Anderson

#22. A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

Cornel West

#23. I referred albums to the more modern eight tracks. Albums came with sleeves which reminded me of clean underwear. Plus, the pictures were bigger, making it easier to see each follicle of Tony Orlando's shiny arm hair.

Augusten Burroughs

#24. I want you to think of me as a soldier,' she persists. 'A soldier in this war who's doing what needs to be done.

Pittacus Lore