Shields Quotes - Page 6

• Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mother, Brother, Twelve

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Enemy, Naked, Faces

  Sidney Sheldon (2007). “Master of the Game; If Tomorrow Comes”

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• Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.

  David Levithan

  Cotton Candy, Weapons, Compass

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.26, Egmont UK

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• I shield my eyes from the sun to see her cold look—the expression I saw in my mind even before I looked at her. She looks older to me than she ever has, stern and tough and worn by time. I feel that way, too. “These people have no regard for human life,” she says. “They’re about to wipe the memories of all our friends and neighbors. They’re responsible for the deaths of a large majority of our old faction.” She sidesteps me and marches toward the door. “I think they’re lucky I’m not going to kill them.

  Veronica Roth

  Memories, Eye, Thinking

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• There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished business. While they may no longer be with us, a faint aroma of their presence remains, a presence that haunts us until we make our peace with them and let them go. The problem, however, is that we tend to spend a great deal of energy in attempting to avoid the truth. We construct an image of ourselves that seeks to shield us from a confrontation with our ghosts. Hence we often encounter them only late at night, in the corridors of our dreams.

  Peter Rollins

  Dream, Memories, Night

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• Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

  Max Ehrmann

  Adversity, Spirit, Nurture

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Urges ... every man has urges. But the true measure of man is to admit them, to learn to control them. The Shield used to refer to themselves as the most dominant force in our universe. But that ain't the way I remember it. They fell victim to the faults of men. Their lust and greed and valor for glory, it led them right down in the pit, where they belong. Tonight, they'll burn for it. For I am no man. I am reborn. Our bond can never be broken, and our urges can never be satisfied.

  Bray Wyatt

  Men, Broken, Greed

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• The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, America, Broken

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• Style means no shield at all.
  Style means no front at all.
  Style means ultimate naturalness.
  Style means one man alone with billions of men about.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mean, Men, Style

  Charles Bukowski (2008). “Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990”, City Lights Publishers

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• We will continue our journey to our destination of peace and education. No one can stop us. We will speak up for our rights and we will bring change to our voice. We believe in the power and the strength of our words. Our words can change the whole world because we are all together, united for the cause of education. And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Believe, Journey, Voice

  Speech at the Youth Takeover of the United Nations, theirworld.org. July 12, 2013.

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• I have taken your advice and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions the last I shall have but little occasion for. I had some hot objections made to them here and found myself very much in the condition of the man with his son and Ass who tried to please every body.

  Michael Faraday

  Taken, Son, Science

  "The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: 1832-December 1840, Letters 525-1333".

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• The only true conqueror who shall be crowned in the end is he who continues until war's trumpet is blown no more.... Christian, wear your shield close to your armor and cry earnestly to God, that by His Spirit you may endure to the end.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, War, Armor

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• In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the door to distraction. It invites connectivity and clicking and purchasing. The closed network of a printed book, on the other hand, seems to offer greater serenity. It harks back to a pre-jacked-in age. Cloth, paper, ink: For these read helmet, cuirass, shield. They afford a degree of protection and make possible a less intermediated, less fractured experience. They guard our aloneness. That is why I love them, and why I read printed books still.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Love, Book, Reading

  Mohsin Hamid (2014). “Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.

  Katherine Howe

  Soul, Devil, Innocent

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• Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Lying, Dirty, Israel

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• He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend
  Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield
  Ethereal temper, massy, large and round,
  Behind him cast; the broad circumference
  Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb
  Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views
  At evening from the top of Fésolè,
  Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,
  Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

  John Milton

  Moving, Science, Artist

  John Milton (1855). “The complete poetical works of John Milton, with life”, p.10

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• In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin entice a man to cease from prayer. The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Heart, Sacrifice

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.659, Delphi Classics

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• There are many poor men and poor women: set apart some one constantly to remain there: let the poor man be though but as a guard to thy house: let him be to thee wall and fence, shield and spear. Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Wall, Men, Evil

  Saint John Chrysostom, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint John Chrysostom Collection [10 Books]”, p.2690, Aeterna Press

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• Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don't even know you've had your shields hacked down until you're defenseless. It's the type." "You're not in love with a type, you're in love with a man," Penny corrected. "Or you're not.

  Nora Roberts

  Dad, Men, Perfect

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.2112, Penguin

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• When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.

  Chris Avellone

  Fate, Army, Hands

  "Planescape: Torment". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Kings, Real

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• As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

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• This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing practices. I urge Congress to provide the funding to allow the lawsuit to move forward, and not to shield the tobacco industry from the consequences of its actions.

  William J. Clinton

  Moving Forward, Opportunity, Practice

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• Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

  Archilochus

  Law, Safety, Useless

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• The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Hate, Character, Presidential

  1950 'Declaration of Conscience' address to the Senate,1 Jun, denouncing accusations by Senator Joseph R McCarthy.

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