Shields Quotes - Page 9

• World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields.

  Philip Roth

  War, Order, Political

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

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• See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.

  Philip James Bailey

  Heaven, Azure, Sun

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.68

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• As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I don't know if you remember, but there was a show a long time ago called 'Love, Sidney.'

  Margaret Cho

  Girl, Song, Children

  "Sing out, sister". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, dc.gopride.com. 2016.

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• Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Intellectual, Fiction, Stories

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• Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

  Roger Scruton

  Despair, Causes, Easy

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• To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Jewels

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• You need to just understand where the ball is and how to use your body. Timing your jump the right way is crucial. Learn how to use your body to shield the receiver and box him out, again, much like a rebound. Trying to beat a receiver to a ball can be a lot like you're posting him up. Rebounding is great practice because you can employ those skills - body position, leverage, timing - a lot more than you might in a football game or practice if the quarterback doesn't look your way.

  Antonio Cromartie

  Football, Practice, Games

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.

  Donal Logue

  Wire, Fans, Huge

  "Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James Interview TERRIERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

  Dorothy Parker

  May, Weapons, Ridicule

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Giving, Suffering, Bears

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• You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fighting, Creating, Ideas

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• The way to develop your psychic ability is by learning to create a shield between yourself and the sensorial and vibratory bombardment that we experience in the modern world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Way, World

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• Build a shield between yourself and the descriptions of the world that everyone else has.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Description, Seeing

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• Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.

  Galileo Galilei

  Ignorance, Order, Wings

  "The Crime of Galileo". Book by Giorgio De Santillana, p. 167, 1976.

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• You look at Iran, you look at North Korea, you look at terrorists, we don't even know where to look. We don't know where to look. But believe me, you can look all over, so we are going to do that. We need a form of shield. We want to protect our country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Believe, Iran

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Such power I gave the people as might do,
  Abridged not what they had, now lavished new,
  Those that were great in wealth and high in place
  My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace.
  Before them both I held my shield of might,
  And let not either touch the other's right.

  Plutarch

  People, Might, Wealth

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.119, 谷月社

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• We are technologically ahead of Russia and China. We can develop a nuclear shield for the United States, for Poland, and for the Czech Republic. Russia is deadly frightened of that. They have been trying to get us to give that up for 20 years since [Ronald] Reagan.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Czech Republic, Russia, Years

  "Things just got very, very heated between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Matthews". Interview with Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2016.

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• The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civilians as human shields.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Years, People, Three

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• One night my son was downstairs studying, and he had been up so late all that week, and my husband said, "I feel so sorry for him." I said, "Look, if he's going to become a surgeon" - he is studying to be a doctor - "he's going to have his hard times. I feel sorry for him too, but if he lives in this world he's going to have more hard times. He's going to stay up some more nights." I think we can't shield them from the hard times, even though we'd like to. I say to the children that I teach and to my own - I can't test the ground for you and tell you that's a safe step there.

  Marva Collins

  Children, Sorry, Husband

  Source: reason.com

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• Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.

  Billy Collins

  School, Listening, Radio

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• The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Self, Type, Dominant

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I still think Brooke Shields is aces. She's really smart, interesting, doesn't feel that her time is more valuable than anyone else's. Really hardworking. And I knew that if she was the star of the show, it's going to be a good experience. And it was.

  Judd Nelson

  Stars, Smart, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I did a Moonlighting episode because I was friends with Whoopi [Goldberg, who guest-starred in the same episode], and she asked me to do it and I did it. But yeah, that was my first regular on a series, and it's because I'd met Brooke Shields a number of years earlier at a charity event.

  Judd Nelson

  Years, Numbers, Events

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.

  Alice Cooper

  Family, Mother, Hiding

  Song: Generation Landslide '81, Album: Special Forces, 1981

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• When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.

  Michael Chiklis

  Thinking, Space, Mourning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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