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Roses may be beautiful, but they still have thorns to defend themselves
Author:
Samantha Smith
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
Author:
Barry Zito
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New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.
Author:
Jim Walsh
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Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.
Author:
Robert Walpole
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The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
Author:
George Wald
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And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
Author:
George Wald
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I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.
Author:
George Wald
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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.
Author:
William Thomas
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Defense is superior to opulence.
Author:
Adam Smith
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However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.
Author:
Bill Shuster
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As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.
Author:
Gerhard Schroder
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I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Author:
Robert Redford
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Author:
Dan Quayle
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I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.
Author:
Colin Powell
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Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.
Author:
Charles Pinckney
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I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.
Author:
Paul Pierce
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I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
Author:
Shimon Peres
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Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.
Author:
Lester Pearson
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I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.
Author:
Rafael Palmeiro
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But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.
Author:
Rafael Palmeiro
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In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.
Author:
Solomon Ortiz
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We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.
Author:
Steve Nash
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That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.
Author:
Luc Montagnier
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In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.
Author:
Christopher Meloni
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There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.
Author:
Dan Marino
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I always root for the defense.
Author:
Wellington Mara
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The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.
Author:
Bill Maher
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What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
Author:
Catharine MacKinnon
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They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.
Author:
Bill Laimbeer
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These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.
Author:
Bill Kristol
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All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.
Author:
Bill Kristol
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The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
Author:
David Korten
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Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.
Author:
Frank Kellogg
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Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.
Author:
Herman Kahn
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It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.
Author:
Herman Kahn
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Today, Jewish defense is an accepted thing.
Author:
Meir Kahane
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That's how you win - pitching and defense.
Author:
Derek Jeter
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In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Author:
Helen Jackson
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If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.
Author:
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
Author:
Patrick Henry
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As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.
Author:
Steven Hatfill
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It is impossible to have a public trial if you can't guarantee the safety of witnesses, judges or defense counsel.
Author:
Richard Goldstone
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It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.
Author:
Joe Garagiola
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It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.
Author:
Nick Ferguson
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Author:
Dwight Eisenhower
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Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.
Author:
John Edward
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If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.
Author:
Johnnie Cochran
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
Author:
Irvin Cobb
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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.
Author:
Michael Chertoff
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I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.
Author:
Rod Carew
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The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.
Author:
Steve Buyer
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There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
Author:
Smedley Butler
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Right is its own defense.
Author:
Bertolt Brecht
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You have to play defense, that's how you win.
Author:
Peter Bondra
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I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.
Author:
Tommy Bond
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I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.
Author:
Dusty Baker
