Top 100 Shield Yourself Quotes
#1. PASSIVE PAVISSE-
ANAGRAM: Shield yourself from aggressors - Walk away without acknowledgement
Kamil Ali
#2. To fully relate to another, one must first relate to oneself. If we cannot embrace our own aloneness, we will simply use the other as a shield against isolation.
Irvin D. Yalom
#3. Han will have that shield down,' " Aech quoted. " 'We've got to give him more time!'
Ernest Cline
#4. PSA3.3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
Anonymous
#5. If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
John Updike
#7. Sometimes shit happens even if you have a shit shield
Nelson DeMille
#8. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.
George R R Martin
#9. He's usually so dour. But not now, not with me, and I like it. He doesn't interact with others without the shield he puts in front of him.
Lena Black
#10. Some Saian mountaineer
Struts today with my shield.
I threw it down by a bush and ran
When the fighting got hot.
Life seemed somehow more precious.
It was a beautiful shield.
I know where I can buy another
Exactly like it, just as round.
Archilochos
#12. Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
Ferdinand Marcos
#14. Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.
Marlon Riggs
#15. 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
#16. Oh my lord, I hurt," he mumbled, licking his lips and spitting out a piece of his helmet face shield. Shatterproof my ass. Slowly
Evan Currie
#17. I was trying to be a human shield. I thought if he shouted at me and got it out of his system, he'd have nothing left for you.
Sylvain Reynard
#18. Sword and shield, flesh and bone, I am your man, Sigurd Haraldarson. As long as the sun shines and the world endures, henceforth and for evermore.
Giles Kristian
#20. When thing are at it's worse you dig deep and finish your mission or be carried out on your shield.
Cung Le
#21. 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
#22. I fended them off as best I could while trying to shield my eyes but, tragically, I'd left my flamethrower in my other suit.
Alexis Hall
#23. Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.
Joe Murray
#24. Life is unfair and there are winners and losers, regardless of how much overprotective parents attempt to shield their offspring from reality.
Jen Lancaster
#25. Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want us to be overwhelmed in everlasting destruction, for He has ordained His Son to be the salvation of the world.
John Calvin
#27. For they are rebellious against You. But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult in You. For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O LORD, You surround him with favor as with a shield. (Psalm 5)
Charles R. Swindoll
#28. These same oxygen atoms, normally found in pairs (O2), also combined in threes to form ozone (O3) in the upper atmosphere, which serves as a shield that protects Earth's surface from most of the Sun's molecule-hostile ultraviolet photons.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#29. In private life, human beings spend a great deal of time in seclusion behind closed doors (e.g., in bathrooms and bedrooms) and other partitions designed to shield their bodies from prying eyes. Scientists have determined that too much visual monitoring can be harmful to human health.
David B. Givens
#30. Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem,
Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield:
The worth of all men by their end esteem,
And then praise, or due reproach them yield.
Edmund Spenser
#31. You stiff-necked fool," he muttered, "too proud to listen. Can you eat pride, Stark? Will honor shield your children?
George R R Martin
#32. Never trust those who would be your shield. They feed on your ignorance and darkness. It is best to look at things directly and be unafraid.
James Rollins
#33. Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word ... Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe.
Corrie Ten Boom
#34. Those two moods are so different! Is everyone in your family like that?"
....
"Unquestionably."
Baden nodded. "Good to know. I'll buy a shield and some binoculars.
Kiera Cass
#35. True strength isn't in killing - or ignoring - your opponent, it's in having the will to shield those who need your protection.
Ilona Andrews
#36. When a warrior goes down, you pick up his shield and go play in honor of him.
Chip Kelly
#37. Sometimes I shield myself from finding out what's really going on with people for fear I'll be held responsible. Because with information often comes responsibility; if we know, we might be required to do something
Kelly Minter
#38. History of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#39. When we are covering our service member by the shield of prayer, we are engaging God's defense system of protection.
Lisa Nixon Phillips
#40. It's only a matter of time before it all starts to fall apart, before things start to fall off. Short legs, long body. The kind of person who in the Middle Ages would come up over the hill on his horse, and they'd say, 'Get Wogan,' and I'd be there with my shield, the first to die.
Terry Wogan
#41. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome ... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).
Robert A. Heinlein
#42. Carla Crumworthy, heiress to the Crumworthy panty-shield fortune. She had come to complain about the collagen injections that Rudy Graveline had administered to give her full, sensual lips, which is just what every rheumatoid seventy-one-year-old woman
Carl Hiaasen
#43. Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,
but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,
regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.
Tyrtaeus
#44. For a shield from the storm, for a friend, for a love to keep me safe and warm ... I turn to you. For the strength to be strong, for the will to carry on ... for everything you do, for everything thats true, I turn to you.
Christina Aguilera
#45. But you, O LORD, are r a shield s about me, my glory, and t the lifter of my head.
Anonymous
#46. He couldn't change the fact of what he was, nor would he be able to shield Amelia from all the arrows that would be aimed at the wife of a gypsy. But he would be damned if he would let her make her way through a merciless world without him.
Lisa Kleypas
#47. Surely," he said, "you don't doubt Samuel Rain's genius. Are you a monkey?
Nalini Singh
#48. Fear and anger always come hand in hand. Anger is my hiding place from fear, my shield and my sword against it.
Jim Butcher
#49. Lee, apparently protected by an invisible Badass Shield, was simply standing in the middle of the mayhem, staring at the burning remains of the car. Luke, much like Lee, was standing smack in the chaos, pieces of car on fire all around him, and his eyes were on me.
Kristen Ashley
#50. Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition
Julian Baggini
#51. When we think about fairy tales, we think about happily ever afters, forgetting the darkness that stories beginning with "once upon a time" so often contain.
I tried to protect Shay from that darkness. But there was no way to shield her from the truth: Life is not a fairy tale.
Laura J. Burns
#52. The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.
George R R Martin
#53. Excitement is interwoven with uncertainty, and with our willingness to embrace the unknown rather than to shield ourselves from it. But this very tension leaves us feeling vulnerable. I caution my patients that there is no such thing as safe sex.
Esther Perel
#54. All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.
Aminatta Forna
#55. He adjusted his body in relation to hers. His head angled down, his hand forming a canopy between them to shield her face from the sun. It was a useless gesture. only silence. The sunlight on her hair
Jhumpa Lahiri
#56. I knew maps of the sea floor, maps that depict weaknesses in the shield of the earth, charts painted on skin that contain the various routes of the Crusades. So
Michael Ondaatje
#58. How much the pain grew inside him after Ossie died until the only way to deal with it was to throw himself into the fray. And the whole time, Vanessa's body was wrapped around him like she was the only one being strong as a shield while he stripped his life bare.
Melissa Cutler
#59. I will devour you. I will lick your bones clean and crush them between my teeth. I will suck the marrow ... "
"That's nice," Kate said. "The shield.
Ilona Andrews
#60. Every time you are hurt, you get a better chance to build a better shield!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. The world's most bada** Viking yard gnome is on the counter by the cash register using a dinner plates as a shield and a steak knife as a sword
Libba Bray
#62. Hung in the scales
with beauty and atrocity:
with the Dying Gaul
too strictly compassed
on his shield
with the actual weight
of each hooded victim,
slashed and dumped.
Seamus Heaney
#63. Everything becomes ... too late, finally. You know it's going on ... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel ... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shield ... finally ... there's nothing there ... save rust; bones; and the wind.
Edward Albee
#64. Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.
George R R Martin
#65. I felt an old, visceral insecurity that manifested itself in an impulse to cover up our cribbage game, to literally shield the board with my hands.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#66. You'd be my pariah, and I'd love you no matter what, and I'd shield you from everything, Desi said.
Gillian Flynn
#67. As for herself, she'd lacked any type of shield or voice of reason. Her life had been molded into a shape and left to harden in the sun. It was too late for her to change now.
Tessa Bailey
#68. What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the way of the shield wall, you will learn the oar, you will give honor to the gods, and then you will use what you have learned to make your life good or bad.
Bernard Cornwell
#69. Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.
Sarah Vowell
#70. Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.
Angie Sage
#71. As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.
Margaret Cho
#72. I have determined, the Almighty God being my help and my shield, yet to suffer, if frail life might continue so long, even until the moss shall grow on my eyebrows, rather than to violate my faith and my principles.
John Bunyan
#73. Eli and Pigpen walk backward as a human shield as they fire, edging me toward my bike.
Katie McGarry
#74. I can hear our hearts breaking."
A tear wets my fingertips, his tears, and his other hand encases my face, the way mine does him. His lips nearly skim mine. "I'll shield your ears from the sound of heartbreak.
Krista Ritchie
#75. It explodes too close, the heat pulsing through my hasty lightning shield. Dimly, I wonder if I'll die without eyebrows.
Victoria Aveyard
#76. Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.
Louise Slaughter
#77. Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#78. There are many poor men and poor women: set apart some one constantly to remain there: let the poor man be though but as a guard to thy house: let him be to thee wall and fence, shield and spear. Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing.
Saint John Chrysostom
#79. Lozen is my right hand ... strong as a man , braver than most, and cunning in strategy, Lozen is a shield to her people.
Victorio
#80. For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
Anonymous
#81. A warm arm enfolds me like a shield around my shoulder and turns me toward the side of the stage.
"Stay with me," says a familiar masculine whisper from above my head. Even over the yelling of the mob and the roaring of the waves, something unfurls in my chest at the sound of that voice.
Susan Ee
#82. Winter glanced over at Cirrus again and found him glaring at Moon and Kinkajou with an expression of searing hatred, so intense that Winter wanted to run across the clearing and fling up his wings to shield Moon from it.
Tui T. Sutherland
#83. Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.
Robert Aickman
#84. When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.
Samantha Mumba
#85. How Sweet the name of Jesus ... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace.
John Newton
#86. 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
#87. Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.
David K. Shipler
#88. Enable me to take up the shield of faith as constant protection from the enemy. My soul waits for You, Lord, my help and my shield (Psalm 33:20).
Stormie O'martian
#89. God is my shield, who saves the upright in heart.
Anonymous
#90. A Princess of the Shield is courageous. She is compassionate. She is kind, and she is disciplined. Without these four core values, a girl may have all the crowns and castles she wants, but she will no more be a princess than she will a dragon.
M.A. Larson
#91. Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.
Rupert Murdoch
#92. Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.
John Dryden
#93. 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
#94. Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke
#95. My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.
Alexa Ray Joel
#96. Juju is not enough to protect you. Everything you have I will turn against you. I'll turn sugar bitter for you. I'll take your very shield and crack it on your head.
Helen Oyeyemi
#97. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.
Peter Ackroyd
#98. Real disciples absorb the fiery darts of the adversary by holding aloft the quenching shield of faith with one hand, while holding to the iron rod with the other (see Eph. 6:16; 1 Ne. 15:24; D&C 27:17). There should be no mistaking; it will take both hands!
Neal A. Maxwell
#99. Forsaking the shield of insensibility she had tightly woven over herself during her years as a gelder, she unbarred her heart. She invited him in.
Chris Lange
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