Guarding Quotes - Page 5

• We have to be on guard that we don't spend so much time worrying about terrorism and guarding ourselves that we start to lose the essence of who we are as an open, freedom-loving people, welcoming to the rest of the world.

  Colin Powell

  Essence, Worry, People

  "Powell: Don't Let Terrorism Change 'Who We Are'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 2, 2011.

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• You want to trace California's move to the far left, you go back to the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill. Simpson-Mazzoli was where we granted amnesty to, at the time, what was three and a half million illegal aliens. And that's it. We were told that would be it. We would start being strict about guarding the borders and making sure that there wasn't any more illegal immigration, but that didn't happen. That was the design. Ted Kennedy, Simpson-Mazzoli, it was their idea here and it's worked out magnificently for them to this extent.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Moving, Ideas, California

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Some think we each have a guardian angel while others think we don't have an assigned guardian angel, while yet others think God at times - but not always and not by assignment to each of us - sends an angel on a mission of guarding. The Bible's evidence that each of us has a specific, assigned guardian angel is not as solid as some think, so I'm with those who think sometimes God sends guardian angels but that we don't have a specific guardian angel.

  Scot McKnight

  Angel, Thinking, Sometimes

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I just love the fact that that's the way life is. When something horrible happens, you do find yourself laughing in weird places in the midst of grief and crying in the supermarket when you see a cereal that somebody used to eat. There's just no way of guarding yourself one way or another. Everybody grieves differently, and there's no right or wrong way.

  Susan Sarandon

  Grief, Grieving, Cereal

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• The training part," I guessed. "Yup. You're going to be Dimitri's partner." A moment of funny silence fell, probably not noticeable to anyone except Dimitri and me. Our eyes met. "Guarding partner," Dimitri clarified unnecessarily, like maybe he too had been thinking of other kinds of partners.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Thinking, Silence

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• LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Music, Treasure, Language

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2444, Delphi Classics

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• ...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and community. Now people live more or less on their own in a small house, jealously guarding their goods and planning to acquire more, with a notice on the gate that says, 'Beware of the Dog.

  Jean Vanier

  Dog, Taken, Compassion

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.16, Paulist Press

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• Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

  Nhat Hanh

  Wisdom, Mean, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.62, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• [Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Gold, Would Be

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• Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Men, Practice, People

  "An Additional Number of Letters to the Republican". Letters by the Federal Farmer (pseudonym of Richard Henry Lee), Letter XVIII, teachingamericanhistory.org. January 25, 1988.

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• When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.

  Max Lucado

  Doors, Cells, Jail

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.110, Thomas Nelson Inc

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