Quotes About Defending

#1. I would rather get offended than defending myself, though if it isn't my mistake. Just to see that beautiful smile on your face.

Naveed Baji

#2. Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

Julio Cortazar

#3. [It] is indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst [against] the incapicity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate.

James Madison

#4. Integrity is more than truth and honesty; integrity is an unshackled mind, a happy heart, and a light spirit. Integrity is inner peace with a clear, clean conscience. Integrity is self-respect, honor, and credibility. Integrity is healthy and unfettering, and it is worth defending.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.

Gerald R. Ford

#6. What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.

Ken Ham

#7. They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.

Norman Finkelstein

#8. When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

William Blake

#9. Defending the United States was important and there were few higher honours, yet ... was it worth making such a commitment when one's political leaders were worse than the enemy?

Christopher G. Nuttall

#10. You know,' he said as they made their way down the hall, 'I appreciate the support, Scully, but I don't need defending. Not really.'
She looked up at him and sighed. 'Oh yes you do, Mulder.'
He looked back blankly.
'Trust me,' she said, patting his arm. 'On this one you'll have to trust me.

Charles Grant

#11. There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?

Phillips Brooks

#12. When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit a rough patch.

Ann Coulter

#13. Girl, you're going to be all right. You haven't forgotten the essentials. You know about defending yourself. All you have to do now is remember ... sometimes you have to defend yourself from yourself.

Maya Angelou

#14. Cal says, Do you want to see my Megazord? You'll have to come to my room because it's defending a city and if I move it, everyone will die.

Jenny Downham

#15. Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.

Pope Francis

#16. Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.

Michel Onfray

#17. Defending yourself is not the same as offending your enemy. Watch what you say.

Holly Chamberlin

#18. Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#19. Men were such strange creatures. Perhaps getting shot at and defending a woman against wild animals and evil archers truly was his idea of enjoyment.

Melanie Dickerson

#20. Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

Peter Drucker

#21. Reyna's destiny: to die defending a passive-aggressive goddess.

Rick Riordan

#22. Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned the ball. That means when you have the ball, you dictate play and when you are defending, you control the space

Arrigo Sacchi

#23. You can win no battles by defending yourself.

Katherine Lampe

#24. Attacking is better than defending.

Pham Nhat Vuong

#25. The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.

Alan Dershowitz

#26. Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Eckhart Tolle

#27. There are practical problems of tomorrow on which people's lives very much depend, and while defending these kinds of programs is by no means the ultimate end we should be pursuing, in my view we still have to face the problems that are right on the horizon, and which seriously affect human lives.

Noam Chomsky

#28. Do not defend a music program because it's good for other things. That's like defending kissing because it gives you stronger lip muscles for eating soup neatly.

Anonymous

#29. The United States is both a conservative power, defending the international status quo against those who would change it through violence, and a revolutionary power seeking to replace

Walter Russell Mead

#30. A part of me does not want to think that I always knew something was wrong.=. This is probably the same part that didn't look at the evidence that was right before my eyes, and even though I know this, it does not stop me from defending the fairy tale.

Carrie Jones

#31. That's the key to defending any quarterback: to make them throw before they want to throw.

Tony Dungy

#32. When someone reacts violently and aggressively, it only goes to demonstrate the lack of truth, trust and confidence in oneself and issue that we are defending. It rather portrays the guilt, shame and self anger for defending the indefensible.

Vishwas Chavan

#33. Dan Moldea, the lead investigator for Larry Flynt's ongoing quest to uncover sexual indiscretions of Republican congressional members, has now admitted he was hired by the law firm defending President Clinton.

Jerry Falwell

#34. People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.

W. Daniel Hillis

#35. After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish.

Philip Kerr

#36. Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.

Seth

#37. And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was

Janice Hardy

#38. Our wisdom grows not by staking out claims and defending them against all comers, but by sharing information freely, so that we may work together for the betterment of all.

Marie Brennan

#39. It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.

Frans De Waal

#40. Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.

John Bates Clark

#41. As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive ourselves and others, as well as our intentions and relationships, in a new light. Resistance, defensiveness, and violent reactions are minimized.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#42. With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.

Michael Douglas

#43. I do not expect I shall ever again have the opportunity of defending and murdering a client in the same day. - Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter

Seth Grahame-Smith

#44. For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And many continue to be martyrs to causes which have ceased to exist, their crowns rusting upon their heads as tin wreaths rust upon forgotten tombs.

Paul Eldridge

#45. Are you going to tell Carlson you're defending Berta?" Art asked.

Terri Reid

#46. A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

C.S. Lewis

#47. Whether it is Paul defending Judaism, Augustine pursing philosophical learnedness, Luther attempting complete ritual self-abasement, each finally realized he had given himself to secular forms of self-salvation and to a world filled with human achievement but empty of God.

William Dean

#48. I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity.

Christopher Hitchens

#49. A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.

Pat Buchanan

#50. Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.

Drake

#51. Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it's a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending.

Rorion Gracie

#52. Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.

Peter DeFazio

#53. Defending evil acts is also evil, All who commit this deed should know By defending evil you make yourself part of it You cause evilness to proliferate and grow

Ruchir Gupta

#54. I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.

George W. Bush

#55. I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.

John Thune

#56. Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Simone De Beauvoir

#57. Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

#58. The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that a man does not consider himself honored in defending it, at the risk of his life.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#59. When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

John Boorman

#60. The West, both the elites (consciously) and ordinary people (sub-consciously), want Russia to go to hell; to disappear, drown, explode. It is because Russia is once again defending humanism all over the world.

Andre Vltchek

#61. If someone hates you so much that they try to hurt you, defending yourself is not being aggressive, it is doing what's necessary.

Charles F. Glassman

#62. The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.

Tim Cook

#63. Yeah, I know what "off the horse" means. I just can't remember how we got to the point where I'm defending myself against the imaginary accusations of a man who gives hairless rats to neighborhood children, and who apparently trusts the nonexistent squirrel junkies in the attic.

Jenny Lawson

#64. Defending her scandalized ex-husband had cost Jenna Wheeler's family greatly in the suburban standings - but the murder of Haley McWaid must have made life here fairly untenable. Parents

Harlan Coben

#65. What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

Timothy Noah

#66. We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

Ronald Reagan

#67. He knew the look of a man defending his home with nothing but a rock in his hand.

Leigh Bardugo

#68. No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.

Judy Biggert

#69. The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to our revenue ... nor afford us any exclusive trade ... is about as quixotic a specimen of national folly as was ever exhibited.

Richard Cobden

#70. In the end, Edwards wrestled with slavery, defending the institution within the colonies but also calling for the end of the Atlantic slave trade.

Richard A. Bailey

#71. I think there is no defending a title. You don't go into a season with a points advantage over anyone. So I don't think it's ever a title defence. I think you've got a different number on your bike, if you choose so, but everyone starts at zero again.

Casey Stoner

#72. Writing about someone well known removes that obligation of defending it as a subject, but it also means that some of the surprise and freshness is already gone. It's so different - in some ways much harder for me.

Susan Orlean

#73. You never look silly when you're defending the American people and their pocketbook.

Marsha Blackburn

#74. A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#75. You aren't actually defending the Devil, are you?" Macon held up his hand. "Wait. What am I saying? He's probably your mentor.

Kami Garcia

#76. You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#77. the protective energies have adapted toward defending the individual psychologically, rather than physiologically.

Michael A. Singer

#78. What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#79. 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

#80. But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.

Steven Hatfill

#81. Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn't 'whining,' it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs.

Alan Gibson

#82. Forgiveness was work, Eduardo told victims' families
but so, then, was love, and deciding what was right, and defending it. Recusing yourself from judgment so you won't be tainted by the aggressor's sin is the same as turning away from empathy so you won't be touched by the victim's pain.

Jennifer DuBois

#83. We spend so much time defending our choice to do this that it becomes hard to show any vulnerability at all. There's only so many times you can handle someone asking about your fall back for when things don't work before you start thinking that maybe the fall back should just be your plan.

Cora Carmack

#84. I'm not defending him; I have no idea why he's made the choices he has. But ... I can't help but feel sorry for him. Because one day he's going to open his eyes and realize that he's made the biggest mistake of his life.

Emma Chase

#85. I have found, in over fifty years of confronting governments and defending cooperatives from political and bureaucratic interference, that when you begin demanding what is rightfully yours, there are many people even within the bureaucratic system who ensure that you retain those rights.

Verghese Kurien

#86. I can be like a lioness when defending my people.

Shakira

#87. Chastity by no means signifies rejection of human sexuality or lack of esteem for it: rather it signifies spiritual energy capable of defending love from the perils of selfishness and aggressiveness, and able to advance it towards its full realization.

Pope John Paul II

#88. Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.

George Washington

#89. If you want to enter a state of grace,
question the assumption you're defending right now.

Byron Katie

#90. Demoness: "The males are defending the females and children ... They will save us"
Sabine: "Thanks. I think I just vomited a little in my mouth.

Kresley Cole

#91. Obviously I'm not a violent person; I don't like violence, but I would definitely go into defending myself if the situation arose.

Michelle Ryan

#92. It wasn't an easy decision to leave out Bobo, because I could have done that with two or three from the back four. But there's a limit to the players you have and the changes you can make. The reality is we're not defending well enough. But we just have to plug on. There's no magic formula.

Gordon Strachan

#93. I love all of Albert Brooks' work from 'Defending Your Life' back to his first film, 'Real Life', but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work.

Douglas Wood

#94. Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?

Steve Erickson

#95. It's not just the music. When we develop a working AI or upload minds, we'll need a way of defending it against legal threats. That's what Gianni pointed out to me ...

Charles Stross

#96. The task of defending capitalism was still important to leave to the capitalists.

Rick Perlstein

#97. At school, I was this tomboy kid who just loved to hang out with her friends and learn curse words, trying to fit in with the cool kids and defending all the kids who got picked on.

Michelle Rodriguez

#98. Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.

Desmond Tutu

#99. Racath admired them - well, most of them. Not the deacon. People like the deacon had spent their lives down on their knees while others had fought and died defending them from the Demons. Shameless swine.
-The Penitent God

S.G. Night

#100. When you use more than 3-5% of your brain, you don't want to be on Earth!"
-Bob Diamond, Interdimensional Attorney, from the Albert Brooks' movie, Defending Your Life

Albert Brooks