Top 76 Don't Defend Me Quotes
#1. I regret the times I've been mean to people ... It's fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don't deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don't do it anymore.
Don Imus
#2. 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
#3. Aside from an intervention, which I don't think is on anybody's mind, Iraq is going to have defend for itself.
Doug Collins
#4. One of the main reasons is that most Sunday school curricula only teaches disconnected Bible stories. They don't teach how we know the Bible is true, how to defend the faith, and how to answer the skeptical questions of today.
Ken Ham
#5. I don't judge the character at all. It's a bit like being someone's defense lawyer - you have to believe in their innocence in order to defend them.
Rachel Weisz
#6. It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.
Maya Angelou
#7. I will stand strong to defend people even if I don't agree with them.
Sharron Angle
#8. Why do we allow people to abuse their children? Why don't we defend the sick and the weak? Why do we let soldiers round up our neighbors and make them wear a star on their clothing and cram them into boxcars? It isn't God who's evil-it's us.
Sylvain Reynard
#9. You can defend your kingdom, or you can defend your people, Majesty. You don't have the manpower to do both at once."
"People are more important than land.
Erika Johansen
#10. I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
Pierre Corneille
#11. Don't put me in a position where I have to defend myself against this again.
C.D. Reiss
#12. I've always been very bonded to animals - more so than most people. (laughs) I don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to help them.
Jennie Garth
#13. Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.
Charles Spurgeon
#14. The thing about me is, I don't care what religion you are. If someone is attacking your religion, I will have your back, and I will defend you. I think that is the most repulsive thing a person can do, attack another person's faith.
Kirstie Alley
#15. I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.
Graham Joyce
#16. Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.
Lauryn Hill
#17. 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
#18. Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.
Adriana Lima
#19. I don't know which is worse - that Raffe didn't jump in to defend me, or that he bet that I would lose.
Susan Ee
#20. The secret of happiness is living in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom but I defend my freedom.
Jose Mujica
#21. If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours ... what are you?
Randy Quaid
#22. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion about freedom plague them both.
Yann Martel
#23. There's no meaning to life as a wolf. If you don't have memories, it's like you never existed. You can't leave anything behind. I mean - how can I defend humanity? It's all that matters. Why would you throw that away?
Maggie Stiefvater
#24. I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side of the Republican Party by saying that it's not the majority, that it's not their focus, when everything suggests just the opposite.
Gary Johnson
#25. Don't, said Laurent, toy with me. I - have not the means to defend against this.
C.S. Pacat
#26. I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a poke at me, I'll snap the finger clean off that does the poking.
Patrick Rothfuss
#27. We have a right to defend ourselves, but we don't have a right to
aggress.
Dennis Kucinich
#28. People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.
Phillip Noyce
#29. You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.
Russell Pearce
#30. The Constitution I uphold and defend is the one I carry in my pocket all the time, the U.S. Constitution. I don't know what Constitution that other members of Congress uphold, but it's not this one. I think the only Constitution that Barack Obama upholds is the Soviet constitution, not this one.
Paul Broun
#31. I am not apologetic. I don't define or defend my philosophical thoughts. You have to feel them, think about them, imagine them, and then try to understand them. My thoughts are my truths. They may not be your truth, and that is fine with me.
Debasish Mridha
#32. You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.
Eric Liu
#33. You never need to defend yourself or your desires to anyone, as those inner feelings are Spirit speaking to you. Those thoughts are sacred, so don't ever let anyone trample on them.
Wayne Dyer
#34. If you are not prepared top take care of the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend this country - who came back wounded in body, wounded in spirit - if you're not prepared to help those people, then don't send them to war in the first place.
Bernie Sanders
#35. IT'S ALL CLEAR
ISIS INVADES YOUR SPHERE
YET NO ONE IMAGINES YOUR FEAR
BUT DON'T WORRY
TAUSSI MELEK IS HERE
RESTORING LIVES NEAR
Widad Akreyi
#36. Don't defend them like it's okay. Because it's not. I won't let them do that to you again. I'm just warning you, I'll make you leave with me if I think that -
Rebecca Donovan
#37. You don't catch the knuckleball, you defend against it.
Joe Torre
#38. Everything is against us ... But I have something they don't.
A love that will stop at nothing to defend the true heir to Egypt and Rome.
Trisha Wolfe
#39. 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
#40. I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#41. If we don't defend what we love-if we let it fade-then our lives lose meaning. We must declare ourselves of what we are ... What we love.
Guillermo Del Toro
#42. There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.
Xavi
#43. I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.
Jose Saramago
#44. What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state.
Christopher Hitchens
#45. I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
Tanith Lee
#46. Things that scare me are the loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen. Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary.
Oren Peli
#47. I'm fighting for my life, I have to defend myself. If I don't defend myself, no one else will.
Alex Rodriguez
#48. I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.
Elia Kazan
#49. Things will happen that seem to be totally contradictory, but these are God's arrangements. It was a wonderful day when I finally realized I don't have to explained or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.
Charles R. Swindoll
#50. Traditional Judeo-Christian values literally hang in the balance in America. They can be 'forgotten' in a single generation if they are not taught to children and teenagers ... It could happen here if we don't defend what we believe.
James Dobson
#51. 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
#52. Don't aim for the middle of the body, which is easier to defend; aim high for the head or low for the knees.
Lee Child
#53. I was kind of a volatile personality, very intense. Because of that, I drew some criticism and people would say things about me, and my parents had tried to defend me. I would just tell them don't worry about it. Our day will come.
Kirk Gibson
#54. Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.
Brandon Sanderson
#55. Some may not believe my account; they may think it was some kind of wish fulfillment during a point of severe trauma. I don't have to defend my experience. I know what happened to me. For those of us whose faith is in the reality of heaven, no amount of evidence is necessary.
Don Piper
#56. The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite. We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion dollars bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hezbollah.
Howard Dean
#57. The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
Xavier Becerra
#58. him. It was between me and my mom, yet as always, he felt the need to jump in and defend her against me. "If he don't like what I'm saying, why doesn't he just close his damn ears?" "Shut
Shelli Marie
#59. I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
Alfred M. Gray
#60. As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.
Anatoly Karpov
#61. I don't want anyone getting hurt over me," I said and looked directly at him.
"Good." His mouth curled up into a smirk. "Then learn to defend yourself. Move the tarp.
Amanda Hocking
#62. As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas.
Bob Ainsworth
#63. It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense
ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!
Tamora Pierce
#64. How can a fifteen-year old girl defend her love when that love is dismissed by everyone? It's impossible to defend yourself against inexperience and age. And maybe they're right. Maybe we don't know love like an adult knows love, but we sure as hell feel it.
Colleen Hoover
#65. You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale.
Salman Rushdie
#66. If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well
Epictetus
#67. There are some lines you just can't let another person cross. They don't always make sense, they might not always seem like the most important things, but only you can know what they are, and when you butt up against one, you have to defend it.
Karen Marie Moning
#68. I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.
Sarah Palin
#69. 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
#70. If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period."
"Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.
Tamora Pierce
#71. I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.
Don King
#72. We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe.
Barack Obama
#73. Do you defend niggers, Atticus?" I asked him that evening.
"Of course I do. Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common."
"'s what everybody at school says."
"From now on it'll be everybody less one
"
"Well if you don't want me to grow up talkin' that way, why do you send me to school?
Harper Lee
#74. There's nothing I have to hide or defend. I'm gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don't know why, but they will. And that's okay.
Angelina Jolie
#75. 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
#76. 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
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