Keeping My Guard Up Quotes

#1. I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

Noah Hawley

#2. About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I'm celibate, which I don't think is any big deal. After two unsuccessful marriages, I find myself keeping my guard up, along with my underpants.

Sue Grafton

#3. First let me take a piece of chalk and draw a circle round you, so you're safe. There. Now I'll stand guard, keeping a weather eye open for anything threatening, and we can catch up with each other while we wait.

Helen Simpson

#4. We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

Saint Basil

#5. You don't really want to have to guard me forever, do you?'
'If it means keeping you alive, of course I do.'
'You really aren't a horrible man after all.

Jen Turano

#6. That's something a point guard can always work on, with keeping his dribble alive a little better. It's so important.

Steve Blake

#7. We need to commit to serve the Lord and our communities with the same diligence and faith that the pioneers had. We must ever be on our guard that we do not become casual in keeping God's commandments, in abiding by His laws, and in being honest and trustworthy in all that we do.

M. Russell Ballard

#8. Without keeping up a merciless guard, day and night, the variety of forward opinions in this world could easily destroy one's sanity.

J.D. Salinger

#9. It must be comforting, to have a faith like that. To believe so concretely that there's someone - something - out there watching guard, keeping us safe, testing us only with what we can handle.

Hannah Harrington

#10. Keeping a private guard this large is like using a wolf to guard the farm. It may keep off the other wolves, but sooner or later it will eat you.

Megan Whalen Turner

#11. It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

James Baldwin