Top 1200 Common Defense Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no matter from what section of the country they have come, stand together as men, as Americans, and are content to face the same fate and do the same duties because fundamentally they all alike have the common purpose to serve the glorious flag of their common country.

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

I take great pride in my defense because the bat is not always going to be there.

The universe that we inhabit and our shared perception of it are the results of a common karma. Likewise, the places that we will experience in future rebirths will be the outcome of the karma that we share with the other beings living there. The actions of each of us, human or nonhuman, have contributed to the world in which we live. We all have a common responsibility for our world and are connected with everything in it.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.

What we have to do is we have to make sure that our country is as strong as it can be economically and from a defense standpoint.

I consider myself a guy that competes really hard, so I'm not concerned about the defense at all.

It is an honor of a lifetime to be appointed secretary of defense and to lead the greatest military in history.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

I am capable of dribbling the ball. I can dribble. And I can play a little defense!

Governorships and Senate seats are the most common stepping-stone offices for presidential campaigns, and U.S. House seats are the most common stepping-stone positions for statewide campaigns.

People see me scoring now, but I got drafted because of my defense.

A lot of the better offenses sacrifice defense to be a good offense and I'm not interested in doing that.

We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.

The best form of self defense is to become invisible... If you can't do that learn Wing Chun!

The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

For three years now, probably more, there is a clear common interest developed between Israel and the leading Sunni moderate entities. The Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan. And the common interest is to block radical Muslim terror, to counter the Iranian hegemonic and nuclear intentions, and to join hands in a huge infrastructure project from water, energy, transportation, whatever, in the whole Middle East.

In college, I prided myself on defense and guarding the best player every night.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism.

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.

That's how I grew up. Just play defense - and make a basket.

Friends don't have to have a lot of things in common. But there's one thing friends usually do have in common - a sense of humor. That doesn't mean they find all the same things funny. Sometimes, they might even laugh at each other. But at the end of the day, friends can always laugh with each other.

I'm excited about getting the opportunity to show people that I can play defense.

On social questions, national defense, economic issues, I'm a strong conservative.

Trying to balance the budget through defense cuts is both counterproductive and impossible.

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

I will say that going to these meetings and things, you know, I thought that, you know, be in a room with a bunch of drunk people. Ugh! I can't do that. And the truth is, it is the cheapest therapy that you could ever get. You're in a group of people that are from all walks of life, you know. Some guy that's got, you know, construction stuff on and dust still on, to a person that's the CEO of a company. And it's a common - it's a common abyss that you shared.

Things happen, you have bad shooting days, the defense kind of figures you out.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or even if one never is, such grace meets one in God's creation. There is grace in the pear tree that blooms and blushes. There is common grace in the sea (that massive cleanliness which we are proceeding to corrupt), in the fact that there was, before we laid hands on it, clean air. Our task is to appreciate that grace.

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes - the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.

I need to be more of a take-what-the-defense-gives-me player and not force the issue.

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

Christians are supposed to love each other. Communists are supposed to share bonds with all proletarians and other communists. Every ideological group proclaims universality, and all of them bicker internally, never displaying unity except in the face of a common enemy. Humanism today is the common enemy of Christians.

When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.

I guess you kind of take what the defense gives you. You don't always want to just force it.

The game changes when you play good defense and don't come up with the ball.

We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.

I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.

The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority.

I believe I'm better than everybody when it comes to footwork, timing, reflexes, defense, you name it.

Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out.

I know I can hit. My defense has been there. I'm trying to show what I can do on the basepaths as well.

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

Maybe I'm a little biased, but I thought I could always play defense.

The U.S. is not great at defense, but in my travels overseas, I realized that everyone else is even worse.