Shields Quotes - Page 8

• It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk of] promoting enemy propaganda...we must talk about how the Taliban are using civilian shields and how the Taliban have harboured the terrorists responsible for killing close up to 5,000 innocent people.

  Walter Isaacson

  People, Focus, Risk

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• Of course, in principle, they're against it. We are the ones that keep asking them what they think about it. I think their basic concern is a land-based missile defense of Taiwan hooked into the American communications and other systems, which in effect would make Taiwan then an outpost of the United States. That is a concern they frequently express. A missile defense shield of the United States, while they may not like it, it is not a big obstacle to our relationship.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Communication, Thinking, Land

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love you Lord, you are my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior. And my God is my rock in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the strength of my salvation, and my stronghold. I will call on the Lord who is worthy of praise. I praise the Lord, my God, my best friend, for giving me the ability, the desire, the love and the guidance that brought me here today. Without you, I would be nothing.

  Gary Carter

  Love You, Rocks, Giving

  Gary Carter, Phil Pepe (2008). “Still a Kid at Heart: My Life in Baseball and Beyond”, p.214, Triumph Books

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• I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn't have to perform Woody Guthrie like Bob Dylan did in the '60s, I just had to make myself be Eileen Myles and let that be my shield.

  Eileen Myles

  Kids, Boston, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Judging by their positions at the time, rather than their post hoc allegations, Democrats adored the Soviet Union. Congressional Democrats repeatedly opposed funding anti-Communist rebels, they opposed Reagan's military build-up, they opposed building a shield to protect America from incoming missiles, they opposed putting missiles in Europe. As a rule, Democrats opposed anything opposed by their cherished Soviet Union.

  Ann Coulter

  Military, Europe, America

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• It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.

  Albert Camus

  Fear, Arrows, Greed

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• the point of educating instead of blaming seems to me very important. For nothing stultifies one more than being blamed. Moreover, if the question is, who is to blame?, perhaps each will want to place the blame on someone else, or on the other hand, someone may try to shield his fellow-worker. In either case the attempt is to hide the error and if this is done the error cannot be corrected.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Errors, Hands

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.

  Margaret Cho

  Blow, Who I Am, Color

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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• How Sweet the name of Jesus... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace.

  John Newton

  Sweet, Jesus, Rocks

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.128

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• Nearly every black man faces an unacceptable level of violence in this society. I'm not different. Money can shield you; it can protect you. But it doesn't make you white.

  Puff Daddy

  Men, White, Black

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• Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.

  George Sand

  Country, Art, Lying

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• Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.

  David K. Shipler

  Lying, Self, Use

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• A lot of military people just take orders, and there is a place for that. But SEALs think for themselves from day one. That way, when something happens - a kid runs out of a room, a woman is held as a human shield - they can make those decisions on the fly. We always say: "Improvise, adapt and overcome."

  Howard E. Wasdin

  Running, Military, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.

  Colum McCann

  Years, United States, Rags

  "How I Dress Now: Colum McCann" by Colum Mccann, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear; rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He is your keeper. He has kept you hitherto. Do you but hold fast to his dear hand, and he will lead you safely through all things; and, when you cannot stand, he will bear you in his arms. Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow. Our Father will either shield you from suffering, or he will give you strength to bear it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Hope, Father, Hands

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• Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Tears, Weakness

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.856, Delphi Classics

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• Tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals [in Hollywood should]... go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else.... It's just too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket [to become human shields in Iraq].

  Jim Gibbons

  Hippie, Somewhere Else, Iraq

  "Demanding an Apology" by Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. March 04, 2005.

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• My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Reality, Shyness, Grows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• When thing are at it's worse you dig deep and finish your mission or be carried out on your shield.

  Cung Le

  Mma, Missions, Dig Deep

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• Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Gratitude, Care, Causes

  "Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson". Book by Robert Lewis Dabney, 1866.

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• Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Missing, Democracy

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• The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

  David

  Song, Heart, Praise

  King David of Israel, “Psalm 28: Unto Thee Will I Cry, O Lord My Rock”

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• The Eastern Europeans invested too many of their hopes in the notion that somehow or other the missile shield, even if directed at Iran, would reinforce their security links with the U.S. vis-à-vis Russia.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Russia, Iran, Links

  Source: www.realclearworld.com

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• Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.

  Richard Stallman

  Ideas, Feelings, Criticism

  Personal Website, www.stallman.org. October 24, 2001.

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• Don't obey God to get things. Obey God to get God. He is your shield and your very great reward.

  Mike Pilavachi

  Rewards, Great Reward

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