Shields Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland, which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.

  Mike Pence

  Czech Republic, Defense, Clinton

  Source: www.politico.com

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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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• It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Fear, Perfection

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.380, University of Chicago Press

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• When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts. This can save you from becoming an adult too early, save your life from becoming only theirs lived over again--which is a loss. But to shield yourself--as I didn't do--seems to be an even greater error, since what's lost is the truth of your parents' life and what you should think about it, and beyond that, how you should estimate the world you are about to live in.

  Richard Ford

  Heart, Loss, Thinking

  Richard Ford (2010). “Wildlife”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

  Frank Herbert

  Religion, Progress, Statistics

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

  Jay Inslee

  Beautiful, Atmosphere, Treasure

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• Lozen is my right hand . . . strong as a man , braver than most, and cunning in strategy, Lozen is a shield to her people.

  Victorio

  Strong, Men, Hands

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• When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

  Billy Collins

  Motivation, Inspiration, School

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• Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

  Dan Simmons

  Ignorance, Losing, Dangerous

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.332, Spectra

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• As the sun is to the earth, so Honour is to a man. without it, he will not flourish. All else may fail you, but honour is the treasure no one can take from you, the shield no one can penetrate unless you let them. Honour is beautiful and clean. Honour is sacred.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Beautiful, Men, Treasure

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• A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life. A saber might be stopped by a shield. A bullet might be dodged by a stroke of luck. But you can't dodge a word. If one is flung at you, it will hit its mark unerringly. No Garritt, there's nothing in the world more dangerous than talk.

  Galen Beckett

  Men, Luck, World

  Galen Beckett (2008). “The Magicians and Mrs. Quent”, p.76, Bantam

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• Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

  Frederick Douglass

  Character, Men, Self

  Frederick Douglass (2012). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.228, Courier Corporation

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• When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.

  Beth Moore

  Spiritual, Armor, Pieces

  Beth Moore (2008). “Believing God Day by Day: Growing Your Faith All Year Long”, p.4, B&H Publishing Group

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• Most people I meet are secretly convinced that they’re a little crazier than the average person. People understand the energy necessary to maintain their own shields, but not the energy expended by other people. They understand that their own sanity is a performance, but when confronted by other people they confuse the person with the role.

  Keith Johnstone

  Average, People, Energy

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.83, Routledge

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• Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Guilt, Doe

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• The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for and admiration of literature, and that, the enthusiasm and admiration, can revitalize the reader’s love for the art form. I’m grateful for How Literature Saved My Life because the book has made me think again – and for the first time in a while – 'Well, what is it we do when we read?' It’s a damned annoying question, but it needs to be asked now and then, and Shields has asked it in a way I find resonant and moving.

  Andre Alexis

  Art, Book, Grateful

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• A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots, and leaving us feeling vulnerable - literally, 'able to be wounded.' To love, in this sense, is to open ourselves to being hurt. The dream of love would have us believe that something is wrong if a relationship causes us pain. Yet trying to avoid the wound of love only creates a more permanent kind of damage. It prevents us from opening ourselves fully, and this keeps us from ever forming a deeply satisfying intimate connection.

  John Welwood

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

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• It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Punishment, Favors, Honest

  Theodore Roosevelt (2009). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.131, Courier Corporation

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• We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Truth, Fear, Heart

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