Top 1200 Defense Mechanism Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.

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

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

What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than to thrust clumsy bureaucratic fingers into its sensitive mechanism. In particular, we cannot afford to damage its mainspring, freedom of competitive enterprise.

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

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

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

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

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

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

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.

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

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

The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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