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There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers -- Harold MacMillan
Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards. -- Robert Bly
Releasing masks and veils allows the other to see you in your authenticity. Guards are dropped, and we can be seen for who we really are: the uniqueness of our personality, the beauty of our soul, our pure spirit. -- John Friend
The U.S. has many vulnerable targets around Iran, and its bases are within the range of the Guards' missiles. We have other capabilities as well, particularly when it comes to the support of Muslims for the Islamic republic. -- John C. Stennis
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. -- Thomas Jefferson
If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life. -- Rebecca West
I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews. -- Megan Fox
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. -- Huey Newton
I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police! -- Isabelle Fuhrman
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be. -- Elliott Abrams
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon. -- Brian Greene
A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me. -- Eli Broad
It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard. -- Jim Bakker
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around. -- Ralph Abernathy
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. -- Bertrand Russell
My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry. -- Jim Carrey
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. -- Marilyn Ferguson
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. -- June Jordan
When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them. -- Zayn Malik
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards. -- Aeschines
I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated. -- Ferdinand Marcos
If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them. -- Robin Hayes
Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him. -- Scott Anderson
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right. -- Vince Cable
I'm going to make mistakes, I just have to be able to learn from them as quickly as possible. To learn faster, I watch film of myself and other good point guards, and then breaking down my mistakes and really analyzing them and seeing where I could have made better decisions. -- Jeremy Lin
The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal affairs. It is precisely because the U.N. is the chief guardian of both these sacrosanct principles that it alone is allowed to approve derogations from them. -- Shashi Tharoor
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict. -- Walter Dean Myers
I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down. -- Jamie Foxx
I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home. -- Vince Vaughn
But who guards the guardians? -- Juvenal
Love guards the heart from the abyss. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Who is to guard the guards themselves? -- Juvenal
Today there's a change of guards in Denmark. -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
The great point guards make everybody else better. -- Stephon Marbury
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties. -- Thomas Jefferson
But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait. -- Markus Zusak
He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage. -- Taylor Swift
A lich guards his phylactery like an elf guards his salad. -- Jeffery Russell
Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score. -- Derwin L. Gray
To the royal guards of this realm, we are all victims in-waiting. -- Cheshire Cat
The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present. -- Publilius Syrus
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name -- Tori Amos
When I say the people around me, I mean the prisoners, the guards. -- Lil Wayne
The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards? -- Josh Billings
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire. -- Salvador Dali
Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos -- Beth Moore
He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly. -- Khalil Gibran
If I let you get killed, the other body guards will make fun of me. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates. -- Charles Bukowski
Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing. -- Mark E. Smith
Put up your guards, keep faith in God, I promise you all the world will be ours. -- Puff Daddy
If security guards aren't allowed to carry guns, I don't have to obey their made up rules. -- Daniel Tosh
Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed. -- Jay Leno
The guards didn't carry weapons. Malcolm X had insisted that the guards not carry firearms that day [February 21, 1965]. -- Manning Marable
We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark. -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about. -- Nas
People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys. -- Patrick Ewing
You underestimate us, Josephine," Taylor smiled"A few guards, chains, and a locked door can't keep a family apart. -- Maya Bode
Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession. -- Gautama Buddha
Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed. -- John Ashcroft
The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon. -- David Klinghoffer
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed -- John Ashcroft
Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards -- Judith Martin
The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while. -- Jean Harris
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. -- Confucius
Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards. -- Judith Martin
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt. -- Horace
To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down. -- Gore Vidal
The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries. -- Charles Stanley
Where are my guards, Teleus?" He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted. -- Megan Whalen Turner
In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies. -- Dani Shapiro
The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night. -- Steve Nash
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. -- Jeremy Bentham
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. -- Joseph Addison
The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992) -- Robert Reich
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Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle -- Rick Pitino
Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous? -- Dan Brown
The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself. -- Storm Jameson
Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards -- Bob Dylan
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust. -- Joanna Baillie
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness. -- Confucius
The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures. -- John Milton
Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break. -- Horace
How did you-" Fool your guards? They're not very good, the forgot to check the ceiling for spiders."Valek grinned. His angular face softened. -- Maria V. Snyder
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
If your bigs rim run at full speed it not only increases the potential for a quick layup, but opens up court for guards -- Fred Hoiberg
I would do 'Superbad,' and the next offers you would get would all be crazy cop characters or crazy security guards or something. -- Bill Hader
The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site. -- Bo Gritz
When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods. -- Sophocles
Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it. -- Rosa Luxemburg
Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe. -- Alexander Lukashenko
I wanted to become one of the best guards in the NBA. In order to accomplish that, I had to increase the intensity of my workouts. -- Michael Redd
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government. -- Barbara Mertz
The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity of its air-ground team. -- Keith B. McCutcheon
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards. -- Gene Spafford
Though youth be past, and beauty fled, The constant heart its pledge redeems, Like box, that guards the flowerless bed And brighter from the contrast seems. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands. -- Lauren DeStefano
You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention. -- Rod Stewart
The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared. -- Kurt Vonnegut
It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards. -- Gregg Easterbrook
You got your guards up, I do too, there's things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, we're perfect for each other. -- Drake
When George [Harrison] died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that sort of thing never happens. -- Lemmy Kilmister
Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye. -- Khalil Gibran
The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated. -- David Bentley
Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience. -- John Climacus
God's idea of guarding his heart is to guard himself against diminishing love. He guards his love. Now if that doesn't become revolutionary I am not saying it right. -- Beth Moore
O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more.... -- William Butler Yeats
Iâ??m saying there is evil in the world,â? Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, â??and doubt is the weapon that guards against it. -- Daniel Abraham
Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion. -- Marcus Eremita

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