Top 1200 Strong Defense Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Perimeter defense may not matter if the enemy is inside the gates.

For my part, in everything I do, I aim to strengthen democracy in Germany and beyond. The United States is also a strong democracy. As we are seeing in Poland, for example, and also in Hungary, it is important that we have counterweights in democratic systems, and I believe they are still strong in America.

I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?

I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word 'diva' and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn't afraid to show it.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.

Marvin Williams is solid, and he can shoot, and he'll definitely stretch the defense.

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

Defense wins championships. I love being viewed as that guy.

All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.

Every good thing great and small needs defense

I have a very strong tool in competitional enforcement: To do merger control, to look into cartels, misuse of dominant position - when member states hand out favors, for instance, in terms of tax breaks. But even though that's a strong tool, it cannot solve everything.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don't know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don’t know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.

The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.

With a strong foundation in scripted programming firmly established by 'Army Wives' and 'Drop Dead Diva,' Lifetime is aggressively expanding its drama series development plate with powerful programs from creative auspices who have strong pedigrees in producing stand-out programming.

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to be very strong and very independent, and I think that came in very handy.

The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game.

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

Every defense's game plan is to take me away.

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

When everyone touches the ball, it gives you energy and life on defense.

A good jockey has to be physically well balanced. They have to possess a strong upper body and a strong lower body. You've gotta have quick reflexes, and you've got to be incredibly coordinated. But it's you're instincts that have to be perfect. You can't be an exceptional rider without instincts.

The consensus for a strong, independent Executive arose from the Framers' experience in the Revolution and under the Articles of Confederation. They had seen that the War had almost been lost and was a bumbling enterprise because of the lack of strong Executive leadership.

I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word "diva" and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn't afraid to show it.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

I played defense, so I don't like when guys celebrate with dances and stuff.

Of all government expenditures, defense spending is the... most stimulative to the economy.

If the coach on the sidelines is not that strong, transmitting the kind of spirit he has, players won't always handle it well. Life becomes difficult. But, with Mourinho, everything is good. He knows when to be among his players, as 'one of us' making jokes as a friend, and when to be strong and distant, even severe.

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

You got to know what the defense looks for and use that against them.

Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

The United States always maintains the right to self-defense.

My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it's okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both.

If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. "I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry." And you do that so that people in the room might go, "What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities."

Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.