I Put My Guard Up Quotes

#1. God was a full-fledged member of the Conservative Party.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#2. The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim.

David Ignatius

#3. All my instincts tell me to cover and cherish you fiercely, with each breath, and work harder to make you mine. Each and every time you try and push me away, to put that guard of yours back up, I need to hold on tighter, chase faster. Until my arms are the ones you want to run into.

S.E. Hall

#4. I married a very devious man." "That's how I caught you." Viper

Jamie Begley

#5. To watch the progress of such endeavors is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against encroachments of power. This then is a right of utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.

Alexander Hamilton

#6. Isn't it really true that life is so beautiful because it's so fleeting and fragile?

Elizabeth Berg

#7. There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there ... But if orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell them.

Jacque Fresco

#8. That savage, he thought. Don't think you can push me aside so easily.
Shark attack! Look out, cara, he is swimming toward you. Aidan deliberately lightened the mood between Alexandria and himself.

Christine Feehan

#9. I'm not a maiden. You took that." "And I would again," he growled. "I'd steal you away and keep you in a castle far from here. Far from any other man. I'd guard you jealously and every night come to your bed and put my cock into your cunny and fuck you until dawn.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#10. You've got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.

Devendra Banhart

#11. I sighed and put Slayer between the front seats. "Stay here. Guard the car."
Saiman shut the door. "Is the sword sentient?"
"No. But I like to pretend it is.

Ilona Andrews

#12. At 30-below, mushers will begin to put fleece jackets on their more sensitive dogs. Males are affixed with pile jockstraps, "peter heaters," to guard against frostbite.

John Balzar

#13. I disconnected as a sleepy Seth stepped out of the bedroom. "Who's Dante? Was that a collect call to the Inferno?"
"They won't accept the charges," I murmured.

Richelle Mead

#14. Even though there will be times when I'll need to protect myself - there will definitely be times when I'll have to put up my guard just to monitor what comes in and out of my life - there's a grace there ... no pun intended!

Grace Gealey

#15. This is a tough, tough life when things aren't going your way.

Chauncey Billups

#16. No one who is angry or shallow can repeat what they've said. The moment you ask a person to repeat, you have won the battle. You have put them on guard. So don't reply angrily and don't take any offense, just say politely, "Yes, I understand, but could you please repeat it?" With that, you have won.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#17. Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.

Anonymous

#18. We refuse to put guards on duty, we would rather pray for God's protection.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. ...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away...

Socrates

#20. You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it.

El Greco

#21. Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace ... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

William Drummond

#22. The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.

Jesse Jackson

#23. Okay, okay. Just tell me this." His tone alone was enough to put me on guard. I knew he was up to no good. "Are your cheeks the only place blood is flowing, or is it also moving south?

Cardeno C.

#24. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me (Jer. 32:40b). That is a different kind of fear from the one that startles you. God promises to put it in you - not to shake and undermine your assurance, but to guard and maintain it.

John Flavel

#25. The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.

Julius Streicher

#26. There's probably no God. So stop worrying and enjoy your life.

Ariane Sherine

#27. If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it may be the means - it may put me on my guard - at least, it may be something to live for.

Jane Austen

#28. We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide.

Eddie Cochran

#29. He felt satisfied, and that sensation should have put him on his guard; happiness is a momentary trap that disguises stubborn problems and makes us feel more vulnerable than ever to the blind legitmacy of bad luck.

Carlos Fuentes

#30. Even if falling for him was not a choice. I thought that you had to put yourself out there to fall in love, but sometimes it just dropped on you, even when your guard was up. The difference was that I decided to act on my feelings.

Stephanie Witter

#31. All the room darkened and my heart again sank; inexpressible sadness weighed it down

Charlotte Bronte

#32. gigantic shift and he had no way to find out what had happened.

Ophelia Julien

#33. Like many people with a bold fondness for volunteering intimate information, anything that suggested a direct question, a pinning-down, put her on guard.

Truman Capote

#34. I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

Larry David

#35. If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic
to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

C.S. Lewis

#36. I think, if you're going to kill a man, do it. Don't write him a letter about it. Don't bluster and threaten and put him on his guard.

Hilary Mantel

#37. What I am afraid of is ... Gandhi. He has brains and always tried to put me in the wrong. I have to be on guard and alert all the time.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah