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We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon. — Oliver North

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple. — John Lennon

Ramming it up the middle only works if you soften the defenses up a little first, the coach said. — Constance Daley

And I can't help but be amazed at the power such small, unassuming animals wield over us; they so easily break down our defenses. — Tahereh Mafi

Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear. — Lucy Freeman

Poetry is language against which you have no defenses. — David Whyte

Love is no inoculation against murder. — N.K. Jemisin

Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality. — Chris Bliss

But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose. — Anne Bronte

No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion. — Joyce Carol Oates

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child. — Peter Gabriel

It's so weird being straight. You have no defenses. Shit happens and you have to feel it. You have no choice. — Blake Nelson

This is what science can do for us, if we let it. If offers us an opportunity to lower our defenses and experience the ways that we are all connected. — Emily Nagoski

He had the singular ability to knock down her carefully bricked defenses, which was a compliment to them both and the secret to their love. — Eleanor Brown

I like to think of myself as the running LT. I like to run up the middle and wear defenses down. It's more exciting in between the tackles. — LaDainian Tomlinson

That was the trouble with wild roses - they grew under a man's defenses when he wasn't watching. — Sabrina Jeffries

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart. — David Gilmour

Humor is just another defense against the
universe. — Mel Brooks

No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open. — George Carlin

The multiverse has natural defenses none of you could have imagined. No one %$%$ with the judge of all evil. — Grant Morrison

Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine. — Dolly Parton

People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary. — David W. Earle

As his self-defenses seemed to indicate. When the younger employee — Norman Vincent Peale

February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down. — Katherine Paterson

You will sustain your rage, using time as a defense against fear and indolence. In the great stash of defenses, time is the one least imaginative. — Marlena De Blasi

Alcoholics build defenses like the Dutch build dikes. — Stephen King

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. — Vince Lombardi

There is no limit to the defenses we contrive against the inbreak of truth into our lives. — Brennan Manning

Cruelty, I understand. But kindness frightens me, for my defenses are weak against it. ~Zahra — Jessica Khoury

The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry — Andrew Marr

World-wide warming moved tropical diseases into northern areas which had no defenses against them. — Nancy Kress

upon all the doors of my defenses, chasing out my expectations of civilization and letting in the fear of anarchy and barbaric violence. — Dean Koontz

Maybe one sad detective pulling a nuclear weapon on a wagon would slip through their defenses. — James S.A. Corey

nights?" Something unraveled in her heart, destroying the last of her defenses, the final shard of sanity she possessed. "Yes! It is, it is. — Eloisa James

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate. — Natalie Clifford Barney

So I'm putting my defenses up, cause I don't wanna fall in love. If I ever did that. I think I'd have a heart attack. — Demi Lovato

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us. — Wendy Beckett

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. — David Whyte

To not give your foe the respect that he is due gives him an opening in your defenses that he can exploit. — Terry Mancour

I felt a crack in my defenses - a weak place where truth knifed and twisted and pried for an opening — Julianne Donaldson

Love did nothing but break down defenses, and I could not afford that. — Kiera Cass

We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score. — Al Attles

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. — U Thant

Self-defenses mean self-defense, period. It leave nothing out. — Bohdi Sanders

We do just about anything to avoid pain and preserve a sense of self, and this compulsion often results in us creating psychological defenses. — Tom Butler-Bowdon

Being love-filled and beautiful is one of the most powerful defenses that one can employ. — Bryant McGill

Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people. — Widad Akreyi

The chill lowered my defenses, and I caught a fever. A fever to understand. — Francine Prose

Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses. — Stephen King

It is foolish to let down our defenses against an attack simply because we will be in the moral right should that attack come. — Garry Kasparov

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind. — John Mayer

My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious. — Mike Tyson

Many of our flaws are old emotional defenses which may fade away when we're loved in spite of them. — Rick Cormier

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more. — William Collins

Was this love? It was like a consuming flame, licking through my defenses at a slow burn. — Yangsze Choo

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free. — Henry David Thoreau

I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

I want you
to undress me
to the sound
of all your
defenses
collapsing. — Lora Mathis

We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual. — Prescott Bush

It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety. — Robert Kegan

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war. — John Quincy Adams