Guard Quotes

“The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?”
― John Lennon

“There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity."

Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.”
― Alethea Kontis, Enchanted

“...Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“That was the dangerous thing about dreams-how quicly you became tangled in it all. People naturally let their guard down when they slept.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.”
― John D. MacDonald, The Deep Blue Good-By

“My knight may not wear a coat of shining armor, but his code of glowing honor will never fail to protect us both from evils far worse than any fire-breathing dragon.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Recently I interviewed a psychopath. This is always a humbling experience because it teaches over and over how much of human motivation and experience is outside my narrow range. Despite the psychopath's lack of conscience and lack of empathy for others, he is inevitably better at fooling people than any other type of offender. I suppose conscience just slows you down. A child convicted molester, this particular one made friends with a correctional officer who invited him to live in his home after he was released - despite the fact the officer had a nine-year-old daughter.
The officer and his wife were so taken with the offender that, after the offender lived with them for a few months, they initiated adoption proceedings- adoption for a man almost their age. Of course, he was a child molester living in the same house as a child. Not surprisingly, he molested the daughter the entire time he lived there. [...]
What these experiences taught have me is that even when people are warned of a previously founded case of even a conviction, they still routinely underestimate the pathology with which they are dealing.”
― Anna Salter, Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders

“When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“you simply couldn't guard yourself against dreams. they attacked late at night when a person was at the most vulnerable.”
― Kate O'Riordan, The angel in the house

“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”
― Holy Bible Proverbs 4 23

“The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord,
That all the misbelieving and black Horde
Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul
Scatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.”
― Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat

“Be an active bystander because sooner or later you or someone you love could be a victim too.”
― Shahla Khan, Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence

“I want to release my soul from its prison cell, to silence the guards who tell me that I am not capable of living. Every voice that ever told me that I cannot achieve has, at this moment, become silenced. This cell is no longer my home.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“Your choices become your directions the moment you start to implement them. When you make choices and you don’t implement them, your choices may be the best ever, but the most useless.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“You need to guard the city before God could protect it for you”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Collaborators let down their guards. Successful collaborators still carry a taser.”
― Ryan Lilly

“Mlinzi mmoja wa ndani alishtuka aliposikia kishindo cha kitu kudondoka. Aligeuka upesiupesi lakini akaridhika alipokuta ni mwenzake ila akashindwa kuelewa kwa nini mwenzake huyo aanguke. Hata hivyo aliachana na Murphy na kuendelea na lindo lake huku akivuta msokoto mfupi wa bangi. Lakini, yule mlinzi hakutembea hatua nyingi kabla ya kusimama na kujiuliza maswali kichwani. Kwa nini mwenzake huyo atoke nje ambako ndiko alikuwa amepangiwa na ambako ndiko waliambiwa kuwe na ulinzi imara na ndiyo maana wakawekwa saba? Kwa nini aanguke ndani ya ua bila hata ya kumsemesha chochote? Kwa nini hakumpigia redio kwamba alikuwa akiingia ndani ili asiwe na wasiwasi? Alipowaza sana aliamua asiwe na pupa. Aliamua kumfuata mwenzake, aliyekuwa mbele yake, ili amwambie kitu na washirikiane.”
― Enock Maregesi, Kolonia Santita

“Honour comes and goes, influence comes and stays, but none of them safeguards us against danger than the mentor of true leadership; Jesus Christ!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“We refuse to put guards on duty, we would rather pray for God’s protection.”
― Sunday Adelaja