Top 1200 Common Defense Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth's largesse. When Africa, which gave us the wealth of life, has that debt returned, the world will have come of age.

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

Playing defense out here against grown men is physical.

Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him

Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.

I'll continue to take what the defense gives me. That's the way that I've always played.

"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.

Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.

I'm ready to come out and show people I'm able to play defense.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.

I think the defense is going to dictate how many shots you get.

I'm just trying to take advantage of whatever the defense is giving me.

Great players, they start becoming immune to what the defense does to them.

Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.

All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.

Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.

I couldn't shoot and I couldn't score in high school. All I could do is dunk and play defense.

Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.

Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to create solidarity on the level of our common humanity, our common life. Without such solidarity, there will be no future for the human race. Diversity should not beget conflict in the world, but richness.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? ...there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth.

... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

I really work on my defense a lot; that's what makes me a good fighter.

You're a pick-and-pop guy sometimes. You can get rolling with what the defense gives you.

Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game

Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

My father really put that in my head that defense is one of the key things in basketball.

Defense is something I've always taken pride in from college and high school.

Defense wins championships. I love being viewed as that guy.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

To those who don't think defense is important, you'll get the best seat on the bench.

The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.

Because we are rooted in a generous Christian heritage, we are eager to collaborate with people of other faiths, and those seeking the common good. Our networks of dialogue and action thus extend beyond Christian communities to persons of all faiths, as well as to communities that are not themselves faith-based. We welcome allies and allegiances wherever we find common cause.

Whatever I can do to help our team, whether it's defense or offense, I'm going to do it.

With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.

The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

Nobody talked about my defense or that I used to steal bases, too.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game.

The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

We're living in a time when pretty much anything can happen in the music world. There are a lot of musical languages in which people work. When I think of common practice I think back to the time I was studying the flute, where I learned that in the Baroque period many things were not notated, since they were understood - that was because of common practice.

Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means.