Top 1200 Defense Mechanisms Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created; certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.

Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.

Iron Dome is a proven defense system that will provide increased protection for our troops in the field.

It's nice to not have to rely on one person, whether it's offense or defense, whatever it may be - get some production everywhere.

Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed by a creator, just like a watch. But there is a tendency to point to them and say 'It is impossible to believe' that such complexity, or such perfection, could have evolved by natural selection. Whenever I read such a remark, I always feel like writing 'Speak for yourself' in the margin.

I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack.

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

Yahweh demanded justice for the poor, compassion and equality for foreigners and refugees, systemic redress for poverty, structural mechanisms to protect the homeless and family-less from abuse and destitution, fair and equitable distribution of land, integrity in the judicial system, humility, simplicity and morality in the government (as opposed to wealth, women and weapons), etc. etc. If you want that kind of society, you need to be faithful to the living God.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

I think it's encouraging that President Trump is talking about strengthening our national defense, something he ran on again.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

To me, defense is a mental attitude?it takes will and heart to go out there and lock your man up.

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

I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.

This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.

It's hard when you get the ball in an iso situation and you have a set defense in front of you. Very few players in the league can do that.

For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls, trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find that often leads you into some dark places.

My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.

I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.

Whether I'm shooting the ball, playing defense, anything I can do to help the team win, that's what I try to do to the best of my abilities.

We got Defense of Marriage Act as a federal law from President Bill Clinton. And it was passed with bipartisan support.

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a lot of empirical work on the various psychological mechanisms by way of which the first-person point of view is produced, and, when we understand this, I believe, we can stop romanticising and mythologising the first-person perspective.

For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

If you can take pride in what you're doing on defense, it's going to be pretty hard for that offensive opponent to go by you or make a shot over you.

President-elect John F.Kennedy said to Robert McNamara that there's no school for presidents, or, for that matter, for secretaries of defense.

Mississippi is home to a significant level of national defense work, such as shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, and critical research.

I'm a lock-up defender and I believe strongly in my defense, so I don't need to take cheap shots at guys to get an edge.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.

One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.

I have worked on my defense skills and played in the midfield as well. Coaches are preparing players to play at any given position.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots

I feel like when people see me locking in on defense, it kind of challenged everybody else to do the same thing.

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

Anne Arundel County has become the world's epicenter of military intelligence and defense-related information technology.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

Everybody laughs all the time, and some of the worst things that happen make you laugh 'cause it's a defense isn't it, I suppose.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

My peers are all in sensitive jobs - at the C.I.A., the National Security Council, working for the Department of Defense. They can't stand up for me in public.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.

I've had grateful messages from people thanking me for being open about health on social media: from others with epilepsy who feel less alone; from a man who shows his daughter my tweets and Instagram pictures, and says she feels much less of a pariah knowing others are in the same boat; and from people asking for coping mechanisms and tips.

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

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.