There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.
When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.
I think you have to be guarded but not closed off.
My whole life, I've guarded guys bigger than me.
I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.
Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
When you interview celebrities, they're so guarded so many times, they can't reveal anything.
I'm guarded; I don't talk much.
I'm naturally guarded because of the way I was brought up. But I understand people are interested in who I am.
Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.
I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.
I've guarded a lot of people.
Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.
Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded.
The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.
I can't be so guarded up all the time. I know it's not healthy.
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded.
An excuse is a lie guarded.
I was very guarded.
A lie is an excuse guarded
Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.
To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.
Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.
Hillary [Clinton] has been very guarded with the press.
The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.
There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
God has guarded His Word so that only the pure in heart can see its secrets. All other efforts will fail.
And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded - period.
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
The Pope is guarded by the Swiss guard who stand proudly in pajamas and silly hats.
I mean, to be honest with you, my whole career I've guarded players that have outweighed me by 30 pounds. Period, 'Melo to LeBron.
My mom and stepdad had such open hearts, they taught me to like bringing people into my home. I'm not guarded about it.
In a lot of farther-flung places in Scotland people are guarded at first, but as soon as they get to know you they really hate you.
I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something.
I'm getting guarded like nobody else in the country is being guarded, scouted on like no one else in the country is.
The coop is guarded from the inside.
Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.
Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.
Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.
The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.
Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.
I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.
What would I do if I were being guarded by Marcus Smart? There's not much you can do!
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.
When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded.
Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.
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