Fending Quotes

#1. Foggy hangover ... fending off sloth and torpor ... the battle within!!!!!

Mukesh Kwatra

#2. I cannot do this anymore. I cannot pull myself together again and spend the next fifteen hours of wakefulness fending off the fact of my own misery.

Zoe Heller

#3. Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella.

Lynn Blackmar

#4. An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fight/steel cage matches. They are a ruthless tag team.

Willie Geist

#5. Or at least of fending him off for long enough that we can sweep in heroically like the Seventh Cavalry.' Burning tipis and shooting women and children, I thought. And

Ben Aaronovitch

#6. I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.

Thomas Keller

#7. It works because the principle of personal space is always the same, whether you're fending off an elemental or someone's bad mood. It's a force field around yourself, and as long as our imagining powers are weak, it's useful to have something to remind us.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. She was crushed by society like a mosquito fending for its unborn young

Owen Jones

#9. I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)

Sandra Brown

#10. Oooh, dinner and a show! How come you never take us to dinner and a show?"
He smiled at Roxy. "I would spend the entire evening fending off the hordes of your admirers."
She fanned herself and grinned back at him. "You gotta love all that suave debonairness!

Katie MacAlister

#11. It's such a huge playing field, especially with the wind and shifting tides and only three women out. It's almost like you are fending for yourself out there.

Malia Manuel

#12. Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who've stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band.

Robert Fripp

#13. Fending for oneself alone on a desert island is really no laughing matter. It is no crying one either

Virginia Woolf

#14. I shouldn't have come," I said.
"Of course you should've. Otherwise I'd be fending off advances from Mrs. Stone.

Brodi Ashton

#15. Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.

Daniel Dennett

#16. In a sense, the elaborate system of externalized memory we've created is a way of fending off mortality.

Joshua Foer

#17. Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain that all five of them were capable of fending for themselves; that they could make tolerable fortunes as bodyguards, assassins, or mercenaries if need be.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#18. The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Vironika Tugaleva

#19. There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there.

Sri Aurobindo

#20. I'd gotten on the piss and it had kicked me the fuck off. Hard.

S.A. Tawks

#21. We all are unique, but we are also part of the humanity, which is our common body. With harmony, love, kindness, and compassion we can live together with joy and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Boredom has a bad rap. Its true character reveals you are deep inside your comfort zone. Boredom is a docent beckoning toward the edges of a labyrinth.

Gina Greenlee