#fend

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#build #certain #dead-end #dead-end street #defend

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#away #build #cast #centuries #combined

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood. ↗

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

#defended #desert #drop #grains #last

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#aggression #civilization #consequences #defend #even

My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#bang #business #club #defenders #every

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#defend #family #funny #instinct #just

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do. ↗

— Gary Numan

#carefully #correctly #how #i #i always

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize. ↗

— Christine O'Donnell

#culture #defend #leaders #legacy #liberty

And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation. ↗

— Christine O'Donnell

#asking #because #becoming #before #defend

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. ↗

— Barack Obama

#america #defending #iraq #opposed #patriots