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It is not aloofness, superiority. It's a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn't want to gather close her comrades? — Megan Abbott

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure. — Felix Bloch

She guarded herself like a secret. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade. — Robert Grudin

Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Sometimes, being happy or being nice can leave me feeling a bit hung out to dry. Especially if everyone else who I'm around is way more guarded. — Hayley Williams

Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke. — Roman Payne

Her eyes are different. Wary, guarded, tinged with that human emotion I despise the most: regret. — Karen Marie Moning

Some guarded their children when they saw me, as though congenital defects and loneliness were contagious, even at a distance and through glass. — Edward Fahey

He was guarded behind a hundred fences of reserve and anger. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that. — Patricia Heaton

That is the nature of the obscene: a truth so honest it must be guarded, for it holds a revelation of purity that is deadly to mankind. — K.I. Hope

Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable. — Saul Bellow

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons. — Harold Bloom

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. — Amy Lowell

He was thinking that in nearly every person there was some special physical part kept always guarded. — Carson McCullers

There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions. — George Crabbe

The missing aren't missing, they're only departed,
All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded, — Trenton Lee Stewart

Nationalism is as thin as a thread, perhaps that's why many feel it must be anxiously guarded — Hisham Matar

I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded. — Sarah McLachlan

The (state of) vacancy should be brought to the utmost degree, and that of stillness guarded with unwearying vigour. — Lao-Tzu

I think you have to be guarded but not closed off. — AJ Michalka

Sure." Olivia smirked. "Good ol' New York Public Library. I'm sure it's up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates. — Cheyenne McCray

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against. — Noam Chomsky

I am of the old-fashioned conviction that reading is a pleasure to be carefully guarded at all times — Jenny Colgan

Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it. — Alexandre Dumas

CHAPTER VI - WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM — Victor Hugo

The coop is guarded from the inside. — Aravind Adiga

I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded. — Farooq Abdullah

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person. — Frank Oz

Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself. — Ezra Taft Benson

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy. — Omar N. Bradley

Peace is a state that must be guarded, for it can easily be lost. — Mirella Sichirollo Patzer

Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a national landmark. He got the replay, We all do. — Bill Bryson

Think it's the artifact. It says the tablet is on the Isle of Eigg, hidden and guarded in a stone circle. — Donna Grant

Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders. — Rabindranath Tagore

Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon. — Henry Rollins

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded. — Cathy Freeman

The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Our word "lord" comes from the Old English hlaford, or "loafward," he who guarded the bread supply - and was expected to share it. — Ronald Wright

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. — Russell Lynes

The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons. — Adam Nevill

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded. — Eleanor Roosevelt

He was a romantic, he knew it, and he guarded the knowledge jealously. — Stephen King

Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time. — Pawan Mishra

God has guarded His Word so that only the pure in heart can see its secrets. All other efforts will fail. — Winkie Pratney

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice. — Aeschylus

Guarded curiosity. — Anthony Doerr

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him. — Victor Hugo

The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded. — Zhuangzi

St. Isaac of Syria says, "Anything that is easily found is also easily lost, whereas what is found after much labor will be guarded with vigilance."37 — Joseph Huneycutt

I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now. — Tiger Woods

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions. — David Bezmozgis

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. — Aaron Sorkin

The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors. — Judy Grahn

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame. — Maruf Karkhi

We still have some time to take advantage of the fact that radio and television stations are not yet guarded by the army. — Guy Debord

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. — Neil Peart

I'm guarded; I don't talk much. — David Byrne

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. — Pope John Paul II

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded. — Mahatma Gandhi

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel. — Oliver Goldsmith

The U.S. stock market now trades inside black boxes, in heavily guarded buildings in New Jersey and Chicago. — Michael Lewis

When you interview celebrities, they're so guarded so many times, they can't reveal anything. — Chelsea Handler

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded. — Genevieve Gorder

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. — Gautama Buddha

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears. — Carmen Laforet

I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul. This world is so guarded and fearful. I appreciate rawness so much. — Emery Allen

The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly. — Joseph Simmons

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable. — Plutarch

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. — Ovid

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded. — Swami Vivekananda

I don't think being a little bit guarded is a negative thing, naked truths aren't always pretty. — Colleen Hoover

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. — Marnie Stern

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through. — Douglas Adams

I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on. — Laurie Graham

If that's what it takes". Jack had the confidence of a man who knew he had all the exits guarded. "Location 1044 — Sophie Oak

There wasn't an inch of Mhisery that Quinn didn't find gorgeous, from her brain, to her body to her tightly guarded heart. — Alex Morgan

The strong we like, but the vulnerable we love. — Nicholas M. Bugden

And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded period. — Shaquille O'Neal

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded. — Erica Jong

There was too little space for their own - and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties. — Robert Ludlum

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. — Aeschylus

I'm naturally guarded because of the way I was brought up. But I understand people are interested in who I am. — James McCartney

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies. — John Gregory

In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies. — Winston Churchill

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax. — Isiah Whitlock Jr.

we must all be guarded by equal rights from one another's greed, because we are fallen. — C.S. Lewis

The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society. — Roger Sherman

there's a parallel peril that must also be guarded — Anonymous

women possessed closely guarded answers to the secrets of the universe, and men would forever be kept in the dark. — Shelly Alexander

The idea that people who guarded you could also be the people that you needed guarding from was nothing anyone should have to learn. — Tiphanie Yanique

A lie is an excuse guarded — Jonathan Swift

An excuse is a lie guarded. — Jonathan Swift

You are guarded. You don't show your cards to anyone. There are times that you're impossible to read. — Alexandra Bracken

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

A big glowing red dude with the head of a wolf guarded a herd of ... Were those unicorns? — Rick Riordan

Better to be a guarded person than an open book — RJ Heaton

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism. — Ron Suskind