Defense famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.
-- Steven Hatfill -
The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.
-- Sue Kelly -
You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.
-- Sun Tzu -
Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack.
-- Sun Tzu -
As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.
-- Susan Rice -
Your only defense can be you were so madly in love you weren't responsible for your actions.
-- Suzanne Collins -
Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.
-- T. H. White -
... governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology ...
-- Taslima Nasrin -
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
-- Tennessee Williams -
Art is our defense against hysteria and death.
-- Theodore Roethke -
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
-- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -
The Evidence Bible is a handy tool for anyone interested in proving the reliability of Scripture, the deity of Jesus Christ, and the incredible offer of our eternal salvation. It makes the defense of Scripture easily understood and should be read by all serious Bible students.
-- Tim LaHaye -
A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.
-- Tom Rachman -
Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense
-- Torey L. Hayden -
I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.
-- Tucker Max -
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
-- Tyler Cowen -
We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.
-- Tzachi Hanegbi -
It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to treatment out of spontaneous insight - typically, in our experience they come to their recognition scenes through a buildup of crises that crash through their almost impenetrable defense systems. They are forced to seek help; and when they don't, they perish miserably.
-- Vernon Johnson -
There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.
-- Viktor E. Frankl -
It's well known that the greatest defense against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.
-- Vince Vaughn -
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
-- W. E. B. Du Bois -
Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.
-- Walker Evans -
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.
-- Wendy Beckett -
All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.
-- William Kristol -
These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.
-- William Kristol -
The best form of self defense is to become invisible... If you can't do that learn Wing Chun!
-- Wong Shun Leung -
The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.
-- Yitzhak Rabin -
Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility.
-- Angus King -
Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.
-- Antonio Negri -
Obviously defense is my strength, but I still need to improve on that. I need to improve on offense. Every part.
-- Avery Bradley -
Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.
-- Carlos Salinas -
Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.
-- Charles Tillman -
I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.
-- Chris Killip -
Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.
-- David L. Bazelon -
A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.
-- Dick Devenzio -
You have to be out there and have a mound presence. You have to be real aggressive and be real confident. You have to put the hitters on defense.
-- Eric Gagne -
Whatever I can do to help our team, whether it's defense or offense, I'm going to do it.
-- Eric Staal -
Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.
-- Ernest Sosa -
Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.
-- Jimmy Rollins -
Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.
-- Kevin O'Leary -
Senator Jeff Sessions is reportedly on the [Donald] Trump shortlist to be either the next Secretary of Defense or the next Attorney General of the United States.
-- Lawrence O'Donnell -
Lieutenant General Michael Flynn ran the defense intelligence agency from 2012 to 2014. He served as a top national intelligence adviser to General Stanley McChrystal in Iraq.
-- Lawrence O'Donnell -
Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.
-- Luiz Bolognesi -
My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.
-- Lynne Stewart -
In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.
-- Martha Manning -
Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.
-- Max Anders -
My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.
-- Paige VanZant -
Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.
-- Paul Singer -
Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.
-- Peter R. Mansoor -
We have put the Cold War behind us. We no longer count our divisions and our warheads. And I am Russia's first civilian defense minister in many centuries. We have become more pragmatic.
-- Sergei Ivanov -
Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.
-- Shaquille O'Neal -
I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.
-- Shaquille O'Neal -
I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.
-- Steve Purdy -
I still have things to learn, especially on defense.
-- Thomas Vanek -
Federal nutrition programs are the first line of defense for food insecure Americans, but do not meet all of the needs of everyone who needs help.
-- Vicki Escarra -
The Clintons opposed gay marriage. They did don't ask, don't tell. They did the Defense of Marriage Act.
-- Bill O'Reilly -
We know our job. We are grinders and we are physical and we need to make their (defense) look back over their shoulders.
-- Bob Boughner -
I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.
-- Metta World Peace -
I think the more aggressive I am on defense helps me to get easier buckets and get in a good grove.
-- Baron Davis -
St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life.
-- Bob Dornan -
My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.
-- Nancy Kassebaum -
If you play angry, you lose what you're supposed to do. On defense we just read our keys and play fast.
-- Brian Urlacher -
Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means.
-- Pat Toomey -
I've still never gotten behind the defense and been caught.
-- Chris Johnson -
If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.
-- Dan Uggla -
I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think.
-- Priest Holmes -
I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.
-- Dave Morin -
The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.
-- Robert F. Williams -
The best defense against partisanship is expertise.
-- Roger Angell -
A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I couldn't hit, so I had to work on defense.
-- Ryan Zimmerman -
Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.
-- Scott Rolen -
Now, I have to - in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was not primarily in my mind and nor was it on these poor cowboys, who - many of whom who've died of emphysema since we were shooting.
-- Haskell Wexler -
Even though Sachin is great, I have always found Rahul more solid and hard to get out. He has a solid defense and plays less shots than others. When a batsman plays less shots then it is tough to get him as he makes less mistakes.
-- Shoaib Akhtar -
The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading − some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.
-- Stephan Kinsella -
From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.
-- Hugh Hammond Bennett -
The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.
-- Thomas Wyatt -
In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.
-- Jason Terry -
If you can take pride in what you're doing on defense, it's going to be pretty hard for that offensive opponent to go by you or make a shot over you.
-- Jason Terry -
I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.
-- Jeanloup Sieff -
Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.
-- John Brady -
To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.
-- John Heilemann -
I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.
-- Joseph Farah -
I think we will have to spend more on defense, for infrastructure, for extension of the broadband network and also for domestic security.
-- Wolfgang Schauble -
The Judo pupil, therefore, must cultivate his mind; he must never feel fear, never lose his temper, never be off his guard; but he must be cool and calm, though not absent-minded; he must act as quick as thought, according to circumstances. He must also be dexterous as well as bold both in attack and in defense.
-- Yokoyama Sakujiro -
I don’t like pitchers who walk hitters. It puts pressure on your defense. The less walks you have, the better your chances of getting through innings. More walks lead to overworking your bullpen, sometimes just by having to get somebody up, just in case.
-- Kevin Towers
