Top 1200 Common Defense Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

You still have to be able to throw the ball and play good defense to win a championship.

Not all players want to play defense. You get in foul trouble, you're going to be on the bench.

I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.

Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense.

Shooters shoot. The worst thing a shooter can do is think. That's the best defense out there.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.

It was dope to the point where I felt like Common almost admired me as much as I admired him. He took us to the hotel, and then he was going through his phone, rapping his raps to me. I was like, Is Common rapping to me right now, trying to get my feedback?

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

I've scored 30s and 20s off of guys who say they try to play defense.

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.

We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy.

I know my background was defense, but I'm not a defensive coach who wants to win 9-7 every week.

Defense of free markets is where we need to be when establishing a vision for national technology policy.

I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.

I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange.

That's something you want to preach throughout the whole defense - getting the ball back to the offense.

We'll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.

My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment.

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.

The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

Obviously Pakistan and the U.S. are very different countries, but we have common geopolitical interests in preventing communist take over in Afghanistan and hence, now that Pakistan has a government that we can cooperate with, even though it is a military government, we are working together with them in order to promote our common interests. But obviously we also differ with Pakistan on a number of issues.

This is a physical game, and that's how you have to play. When you do that, the defense eventually gets tired of tackling you.

I'm afraid that it's not possible to design a defense against every conceivable threat that you can think of.

We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.

I'm up here to help the team win every at-bat, offense, defense, baserunning.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very popular. For the record, I have no reason to doubt that the universe is the billions of years old that physicists say it is. Further, I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?

The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.

Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.

I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

If someone is not playing defense or not giving effort, that's my specialty. I don't hold back on my words.

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

We are proceeding on the basis of common values. We have more to gain from partnership, from promoting our partnership in dealing with the big global challenges. I, therefore, believe that in the near future, not much is going to change in the relations between E.U., Greece and the United States of America. These are relations that were forged under very difficult conditions and rely on the common values of our people.

I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Defense is so important for helping your team win games and for the game in general.

In the course of a healthy debate, we prioritize different goals, and the different means of reaching them. But without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information and concede that your opponent might be making a fair point, and that science and reason matter - then we're going to keep talking past each other, and we'll make common ground and compromise impossible.

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar.

It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this is a mistake. All that is needed is a readiness to learn from one's partner in the discussion, which includes a genuine wish to understand what he intends to say. If this readiness is there, the discussion wrighteous stupidityill be the more fruitful the more the partner's backgrounds differ.

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.