Top 1200 Defense Mechanism Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides - that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist - but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.

Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.

I was searching for a way to demonstrate 3D movement to my students and one day found myself staring into the River Danube, looking at how the water moved around the pebbles. This became the inspiration for the cube's twisting mechanism. The fact that it can do this without falling apart is part of its magic.

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.

A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.

If I'm playing bad, then I know we're not winning a lot of games, and we're definitely not No. 1 in pass defense.

Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest but not our collective interest.

I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,— not only as works of mechanism, but works of intelligence, not only as under laws, but under a Lawgiver, wise and good.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we've had or just dealing with life or whatever. Everyone's story is different, but we all have some kind of mechanism that we use to deal with stuff, that we create pretty young.

I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.

My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.

This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

Probably all of us have random rogue cancer cells floating around in our bodies but by and large, in the majority of cases, our immune system circulates and acts as a surveillance mechanism and kills off those few tumor cells.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

Defense is the thing we can control and bring every night. But I want to be great on both ends.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Many defense experts have predicted that we face no greater threat from a single country than from Iran.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

You can't just score more points than last year without playing defense.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

I hear somebody saying we should carpet bomb Iraq or Syria. Not only is that inhumane, not only is that contrary to our values, but that would likely be an extraordinary mechanism for ISIL to recruit more people willing to die and explode bombs in an airport.

In the real world, some defense lawyers never have an innocent client in their whole career.

In Serie A if you have an exceptional physique and you train very well you can destroy any opposing defense.

You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.

The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies.

Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is because it's a mechanism of power and control. You can control priests who are celibate.

Social media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism, one-to-many, to a many-to-many model, rooted in conversations between authors, people and peers.

Padoin is proving himself to be a great professional. He's tactically intelligent, and it's tough to play in front of the defense.

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.

The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the maintenance, with the internal environment, of all the conditions necessary for the life of the elements.

With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)

When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.

It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract.

You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?

The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.

America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

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

I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person.

Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spend time with use that as a big screening mechanism. And that's really the reason, we think, families are pushed into worse housing and worse neighborhoods after their evictions.

We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.

When you're desperate, it's good on defense because your hair should be on fire, but it's bad on offense.

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.

The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.

The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.

Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.

'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.

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

I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think.

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

For the longest time, it's always been Aaron Rodgers and the offense. It's nice to have a little notoriety on defense.