Shields quotes
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Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.
-- Alice Cooper -
I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.
-- Ana Gasteyer -
My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.
-- Andre Agassi -
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Do not fear so, here is one who would be a blade at your back. A shield across your breast. Here is kin, here is strength to lean upon, to share as you share in need.
-- Andre Norton -
What would the Russian Bear and the American Eagle do if they discovered our paradise? Our secrecy is our shield!
-- Andrew Ryan -
Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.
-- Angie Sage -
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
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A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu -
When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.
-- Billy Collins -
Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.
-- Brené Brown -
The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
-- Brian May -
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William," the professor said, softly, "what now is your weapon?"...."Truth," he whispered, his voice rasping. He cleared his throat. "Truth is my sword." ...."And what now is your defense?" Colour returned to Billy's face, and his jaw tightened. His voice surged with emotion. "Faith...faith is my shield.
-- Bryan Davis -
If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?
-- Bryan Davis -
Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery
-- Charles Simmons -
When thing are at it's worse you dig deep and finish your mission or be carried out on your shield.
-- Cung Le -
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I think that 'The Shield' was a phenomenal series finale.
-- Damon Lindelof -
Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
-- Dan Simmons -
Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.
-- David Levithan -
I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
-- David Miliband -
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Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
-- Diane Black -
I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.
-- Donal Logue -
When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!
-- E. M. Forster -
I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
-- E. M. Forster -
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The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
-- Frank Herbert -
I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.
-- Glenn Close -
But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.
-- Gugu Mbatha-Raw -
What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.
-- Hannah -
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True strength isn’t in killing—or ignoring—your opponent, it’s in having the will to shield those who need your protection.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
-- James K. Polk -
The truth is often one's best shield.
-- James Rollins -
I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel’s accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields.
-- Jeremy Bowen -
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A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
-- Jessica Savitch -
Prayer is a shield to the soul
-- John Bunyan -
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.
-- John Dryden -
I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.
-- John Dryden -
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The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.
-- John Philip Sousa -
I know what I say; I understand my mission and business. God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?
-- Joseph Smith, Jr. -
God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.
-- Katherine Howe -
I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom, boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!
-- Kelly Brook -
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I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum.
-- Les Dawson -
Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.
-- Lisa Unger -
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
-- Max Ehrmann -
Three things trust and cherish well- The horse on which you ride, The beast that guards and watches, And your shield-mate at your side.
-- Mercedes Lackey -
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Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
-- Meshell Ndegeocello -
Don't obey God to get things. Obey God to get God. He is your shield and your very great reward.
-- Mike Pilavachi -
Your spirit is the true shield.
-- Morihei Ueshiba -
Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
-- Nancy Mitford -
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
-- Oscar Wilde -
The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.
-- Patricia Briggs -
See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
-- Philip James Bailey -
Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
-- Queen Rania of Jordan -
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Darkness shields as much as it threatens.
-- R. Scott Bakker -
The power of citizenship as a shield against oppression was widely known from the example of Paul 's Roman citizenship, which sent the centurion scurrying to his higher-ups with the message: "Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman".
-- Robert H. Jackson -
The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
-- Robin Williams -
When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.
-- Samantha Mumba -
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Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.
-- Sarah Vowell -
Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield.
-- Sarra Manning -
But there are still good shows like 24, Boomtown and the Wire, the Shield.
-- Shemar Moore -
I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.
-- Sidney Sheldon -
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My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.
-- Theodore Roethke -
I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields
-- Tony Randall -
Sigma Chi, more than anything else, got me involved with the people who knew how to study, and they helped me. I learned from them. The Norman Shield is still quite applicable now.
-- William DeVries -
A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.
-- William Shenstone -
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The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
-- Winston Churchill -
I'll tell you the only way to survive: Ask God to place a semi-permeable shield around your heart: One that only allows what He loves to enter.
-- Yasmin Mogahed -
This whole business of all these lenses is ridiculous. You know, it's like you have to capture your picture. You have to create it. You have to see it. You have to seize it and you have to move in to get it, so those lenses are just an escape of some sort or a shield.
-- Carol Friedman -
Iraq is a strange country. Where else can American civilians like me be protected by terrorist human shields?
-- Michael Totten -
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Squidward, where are you? Shield me with your forehead!
-- Mr. Krabs -
The Shield made me realize there were great opportunities for writers in TV.
-- Nick Antosca -
Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.
-- Marlon Riggs -
The networks are different so they have a different approach. Obviously, with The Shield - that was on FX so they had a little bit more leeway as far as the dialogue was concerned and even the content and what they showed the viewers, which is a great thing. But we will push it to the limit as far as FOX will let us go; that's for damn sure.
-- Mekhi Phifer -
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You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere -
Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.
-- Roger Scruton -
For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.
-- Ron Wyden
