Top 100 Quotes About Shields
#1. Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.
Mark Shields
#2. Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.
Frederick Douglass
#3. There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.
Mark Shields
#4. Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably high marks. The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.
Mark Shields
#5. My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#6. Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.
Mark Shields
#7. Let us hope the time will come when language is most efficiently used where it is being most efficiently misused.
David Shields
#8. Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.
David Shields
#9. The Republicans, they are in the danger of rooting for the country to fail. They look bad that way, I mean, and I want to say to them, cheer up, Republicans. Eventually, things will get worse.
Mark Shields
#10. The recounting of a life is a cheat ... even our own stories are obscenely distorted ...
Carol Shields
#11. When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of physical effort.
Kevin Shields
#12. Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was so nice and so funny.
Atticus Shaffer
#13. I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.
Brooke Shields
#14. Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.
Marlon Riggs
#15. Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light ...
Carol Shields
#16. What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.
Hannah
#17. These are frightening times ... when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.
Carol Shields
#18. I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially knowing her and knowing that she is so awesome and so nice.
Willow Shields
#19. I was the breakable one. Women always are. It's not so much a question of one big disappointment, though. It's more like a thousand little disappointments raining down on top of each other. After a while it gets to seem like a flood, and the first thing you know you're drowning.
Carol Shields
#20. At a time when the public is sour on politicians, have no use for them, Bill Clinton has risen to a different level. Bill Clinton is endlessly interesting.
Mark Shields
#21. For some, religion is the cement that seals shut their door on the world
Carol Shields
#22. Whenever I meet anyone new, I don't say, "Tell me about your belief system." I say, "Tell me about your average day".
Carol Shields
#23. When thing are at it's worse you dig deep and finish your mission or be carried out on your shield.
Cung Le
#24. There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#25. I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.
Brooke Shields
#26. I'm interested in knowing the secrets that connect human beings. At the very deepest level, all our secrets are the same.
David Shields
#28. DAVID SHIELDS: Salinger told Whit Burnett... that on D-Day he was carrying six chapters of 'The Catcher in the Rye', that he needed those pages with him not only as an amulet to help him survive but as a reason to survive.
Shane Salerno
#29. I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown.
Brooke Shields
#30. You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.
Mark Shields
#31. In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
Charles J. Shields
#32. A woman says: I plan to cut the shoulder pads out of all my blouses and dresses and load them on a barge and dump them in Lake Winnipeg, creating a tidal wave which I'm told can be harnessed to provide electric power to the entire region.
Carol Shields
#33. When will you stop laughing at misery? I'm so sick and tired of your pseudo-strength. All I want you to do is laugh at what is funny and cry at what isn't, but you won't do that, will you?
David Shields
#34. I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong?
Brooke Shields
#35. The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.
Mark Shields
#36. On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.
Jay Inslee
#37. If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.
Mark Shields
#38. If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.
Mark Shields
#39. Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.
Carol Shields
#40. The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks;many a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.
Henry David Thoreau
#41. When you're depressed, it's like you pick up one of those shields in a video game, but instead of protecting your life power, it blocks you from being able to receive any affirmation or encouragement.
Sammy Rhodes
#42. Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.
Mark Shields
#43. It involved giving up what I thought was bringing me comfort, only to clearly see they were leading to a sure and certain early death. I was committing suicide slowly, sweet morsel by sweet morsel (p. 219).
Teresa Shields Parker
#44. Curiously, she is not afraid, knowing as she does that love is mostly the avoidance of hurt, and furthermore, she is accustomed to obstacles, and how they can be overcome by readjusting her glance or crowding her concerns into a shadowy corner.
Carol Shields
#45. overlapping Alcubierre space-time shields. They soaked in
T. Jackson King
#46. We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.
Brooke Shields
#47. Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.
Alice Cooper
#48. I have pretty thick eyebrows, so I'm really grateful to Brooke Shields, the first time around, and now Cara Delevingne for making that such a thing. For those of us who were born that way, it's kind of nice.
Sophia Bush
#49. There is no tougher job in America than being a cop on the beat in a major city in this country, big and brawling.
Mark Shields
#50. I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel has been an embattled democracy that has enjoyed the bipartisan and overwhelming support of Americans. It has been a moral force.
Mark Shields
#51. Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.
Brooke Shields
#52. If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.
Justina Chen
#53. Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.
Carol Shields
#54. Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, pray, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, just let go, just be.
Carol Shields
#55. The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.
David Shields
#56. It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.
Carol Shields
#57. I think once you have children, you just don't have the same kind of freedom to pick up and go. But then, I sort of think, how often did I really do it? How spontaneous was I really? Part of what I think I miss is this fantasy of my wild days, but they never existed!
Brooke Shields
#58. If you're dedicated to something and you put the time in, why should anyone have an opinion on it? Halif of the people who comment about women's boxing don't even watch it.
Claressa Shields
#59. Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!
Mark Shields
#60. I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.
Kevin Shields
#61. George Bush is trying to play it both ways.
Mark Shields
#62. Metaphorically speaking, some very bright people suggest that citizens of the twenty-first century will be best protected by masks and shields, while I prefer the image of a light saber.
David Brin
#63. I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields.
Tony Randall
#64. He knows very well what underlies the compulsive side of his nature; it is the wish to escape that which he can't comprehend, seeking safety in an unbendable estrangement.
Carol Shields
#65. Our strength will come not from the sharpness of our spears, but from our willingness to offer others the protection of our shields.
Simon Sinek
#66. I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.
Brooke Shields
#67. I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.
Kevin Shields
#68. The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.
Mark Shields
#69. How does a poet know when a poem is ended? Because it lies flat, taut; nothing can be added or subtracted. How does a woman know when a marriage is over? Because of the way her life suddenly shears off in just two directions: past and future.
Carol Shields
#70. Guys think that if a girl is pretty, she's automatically going to say no. Most of the guy's I've gone out with, I've had to make it completely obvious that I'd like them to ask me out. Or, I've had to ask them.
Brooke Shields
#71. Candor is key - being willing to say what no one else is willing to say.
David Shields
#72. The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.
John Ralston Saul
#73. A child conceived on Christmas Eve is considered unlucky and will later resent his parents for their unholy transgression, their lack of control and piety. The child may be deformed with a harelip or be cursed with the ears and head of a wolf. Or the infant may be born a werewolf.
Jody Shields
#75. I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.
David Shields
#76. To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.
David Shields
#77. The way to develop your psychic ability is by learning to create a shield between yourself and the sensorial and vibratory bombardment that we experience in the modern world.
Frederick Lenz
#78. These hips are mighty hips.
These hips are magic hips.
I have known them
to put a spell on a man
and spin him like a top
Carol Shields
#79. The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.
Carol Shields
#80. Donald Trump is writing a different theme, which is it's midnight in America and that things are bad, and they're bleak, and they're gloomy and they're doomy, and the only thing that is going to save you is someone with the authority and power of somebody like me.
Mark Shields
#81. When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
Mark Shields
#82. I like to chant a couple of lines of poetry into the ozone layer every day or so, another caller says.
Carol Shields
#83. Let a man go to the bottom of what he is and believe in that.
David Shields
#84. The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.
Kevin Shields
#85. Well, Jen and Josh are the two funniest people on set. They're absolutely insane. If you put them together, it's just a disaster, But, I mean, it's so much fun! They're both probably the funniest people on set.
Willow Shields
#86. A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
E.B. White
#87. The red and white and starry blue
Is freedom's shield and hope.
John Philip Sousa
#88. No one can have so little that someone else can find nothing to envy. Poverty and simplicity were not shields from the greed of others. If you had nothing left to steal, they'd take your body and enslave it.
Robin Hobb
#89. When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.
Tyler Shields
#90. The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.
Brooke Shields
#91. You have to understand that Republicans are on lockstep on one issue. They will not raise taxes. Democrats are in lockstep on another issue, pro-choice in all cases on abortion.
Mark Shields
#92. People say, 'I love my wrinkles.' I don't love my wrinkles - come on!
Brooke Shields
#93. He wondered exactly how lost a person could get. Lost at sea, lost in the woods. Fatally lost.
Carol Shields
#94. Pain was as much a part of knighthood as were swords and shields.
George R R Martin
#95. For a hunter, her shields were surprisingly weak, as if she somehow still saw innocence in the world.
Then she will kill you. She will make you mortal.
Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?
Nalini Singh
#96. Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
Brooke Shields
#97. I'm most proud of the fact I carried myself on and off the field consistently for what the NFL stands for.
Will Shields
#98. The softest hearts always have the toughest shields.
Claire Cross
#99. I think that the people that are publicly on Hillary Clinton's short list all are very congenial people. They're not people with personality or Captain Queeg problems.
Mark Shields
#100. I could hardly see him in the darkness, but knew he wore a leather jerkin and had a sword at his side. The rest of us were in leather and mail, had helmets, and carried shields, axes, swords, or spears. Tonight we would kill. Sihtric,
Bernard Cornwell
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