Top 1200 Defense Mechanism Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Large financial institutions in this country will always play a role that is essential to our economic growth. But they must only be permitted to grow and interconnect, throughout our economy, under careful oversight and with a mechanism for allowing those connections to be broken safely.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

When I step on the court, it's not just my shot, I'm trying to get better in all aspects of the game, defense, rebounding.

Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it’s a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

From my experience, playing on some really good teams in the past, that's No. 1, to pitch well and play defense.

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

If one's interest is not in some global question about the possibility of knowledge, but about some particular mechanism or inferential tendency, this fact about our evolutionary origin is of no use at all in addressing questions about reliability.

This is where I think policies do need to be somewhat race-specific, is making sure that institutions are not discriminatory. So you've got something like the FHA [Federal Housing Administration], which was on its face a universal program that involved a huge mechanism for wealth accumulation and people entering into the middle class.

It was a tremendous honor to win the Gold Glove because I've always taken a lot of pride in my defense.

When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies.

If there is a person behaving more destructively in popular culture than Mario Lavandeira, I cannot think of one. He has used cruelty as a crass mechanism to build up his own celebrity and has utilized political correctness to protect himself while using it as a weapon to dehumanize those he doesn't agree with.

How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.

There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War was accomplished by the Mandrake Mechanism through the Federal Reserve System.

It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.

My first, second, third, fourth and fifth priority is definitely defense. I want to be everywhere and help everybody.

The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.

With all the talk of the 3-point line, it's still most important to build your defense inside to out.

Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

In high school, you don't play much defense. It's mostly offense. In college, it's vice versa, and that's what I tried to do.

The United States Navy is of critical importance to the defense of this country and to maintaining freedom of the seas internationally.

The passion to change the world for the better is a more powerful force than defense to keep it the same.

I am convinced that if the market system were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by the price changes understood that their decisions have significance far beyond their immediate aims, this mechanism would have been acclaimed as one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind.

We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.

Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.

I thought the irreducible requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government, and a strong national defense.

All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.

I think my body makes itself tired so I don't have the energy to do anything else beforehand. I do jump around a lot on stage, so I guess my body's like, "You are tired now!" As soon as I get onstage the adrenaline takes over. It's a useful mechanism.

Hillary Clinton worked with Marian Wright Edelman in Children's Defense Fund. That's all you need to do know.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.

I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.

For me, I just go out there and play defense, hit some open shots and keep it rolling.

If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.

Gracie Jiu Jitsu is the most complete art of self defense there is out there. You don't have to be strong. You don't have to be fast.

When we get bad shots, it's hard to rebound and it's also harder to come back in transition defense.

Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.

As the game goes on, I get better and I can see the defense getting tired. That gets me hyped.

Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind/body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence.

In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man and built up the human species, even a most fervent atheist will wonder if Darwin found the visible road but not the invisible mechanism.

We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.

Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given citizenship. Such a vetting mechanism would naturally promote the best and hardest-working.

I don't know if power seduces less or more. I think power is a constant evolving mechanism that, since the dawn of time, on one level corrupts and on another level does not. But I think, no matter what, mutates.

When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

The quantum hologram is a mechanism to explain this concept of the ancients of the Akashic Records. It also explains Rupert Sheldrake's work among animals [his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, leading to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory].

You name me a Super Bowl that had a pacifistic defense, and I'll give you my paycheck. I'm serious. There aren't any.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's hidden hand that holds the mirror up, the impersonal mechanism by means of which matter makes its perfection manifest.

We want to go 100 miles per hour and cause confusion for the defense. It can be a lot of fun.

Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or ridiculous. Secularist organizations, with their generally looser, nonhierarchical structures, lack the power to hand down and disseminate their heritage in such a systematic way.