Quotes with guard

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  • James Baldwin It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Buddha It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ben Simmons It's great to be compared to a great player like Tracy McGrady, but I think I'm my own type of player. I'm 6'10'' and a bit bigger than he is as a player. I also think I'm a bit different and play a different position. He's more of a guard, and I can play all around through five.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Buddha Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bill Goldberg Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bill Plympton My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard Dog' when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Betty Parsons My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.
    Betty Parsons
    American artist, art dealer, and collector (1900 - 1982)
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  • Bayard Taylor Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Publilius Syrus One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Ben Hecht Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Billy Corgan Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Barry McCaffrey Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • James A. Froude The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Marcus Aurelius The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Josh Billings There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Caroline Shaw There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds of music together. We do pop studio sessions, and we'll also play John Cage and more avant-garde work. We're developing a language of music that comes with a lot of different styles, different kinds of work.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • William Butler Yeats Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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