Quotes About Fending For Yourself

#1. 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

#2. But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

Charles Bukowski

#3. 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

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

Lynn Blackmar

#5. 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

#6. Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

Mark Hoppus

#7. I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

Isadora Duncan

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Owen Jones

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Brodi Ashton

#17. You can't handle the truth!

Jack Nicholson

#18. 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

#19. More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?

Toni Morrison

#20. Love. The wide sea that one word conjures up, all the currents and tides and storms and oily swells of it.

Rosie Thomas

#21. Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.

Sai Baba

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

Joshua Foer

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

Mukesh Kwatra

#24. The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

Richard Dawkins

#25. I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

Andreas Gursky

#26. 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

#27. Besides, if one little kiss makes her a slut, I'd hate to know what that makes you.

Kelly Oram

#28. But no one could change the mind of someone else. That was for them to do. And if they weren't willing, then there was no magic in existence to make them see what they didn't want to see.

Sherrilyn Kenyon