Quotes about Guarded

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. Votes: 4

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. Votes: 4

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. Votes: 4

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded. Votes: 4

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. Votes: 4

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game. Votes: 4

Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting. Votes: 4

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production. Votes: 4

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed. Votes: 4

Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight. Votes: 3

A lie is an excuse guarded Votes: 2

An excuse is a lie guarded. Votes: 2

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded. Votes: 2

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded. Votes: 2

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. Votes: 2

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. Votes: 2

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that. Votes: 2

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure. Votes: 2

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. Votes: 2

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non. Votes: 2

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. Votes: 2

I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now. Votes: 2

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. Votes: 2

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice. Votes: 2

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against. Votes: 2

There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded. Votes: 2

I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded. Votes: 2

Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history. Votes: 2

When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since. Votes: 2

I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible. Votes: 2

A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled. Votes: 2

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex. Votes: 2

Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to decadence. Votes: 2

I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.' Votes: 2

I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious. Votes: 2

I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity. Votes: 2

It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit. Votes: 2

I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy. Votes: 2

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded. Votes: 2

The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics. Votes: 2

The coop is guarded from the inside. Votes: 0

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded. Votes: 0

Hillary [Clinton] has been very guarded with the press. Votes: 0

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes. Votes: 0

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded. Votes: 0

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade. Votes: 0

I think you have to be guarded but not closed off. Votes: 0

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame. Votes: 0

Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself. Votes: 0

In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies. Votes: 0

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel. Votes: 0

Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable. Votes: 0

And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded period. Votes: 0

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. Votes: 0

The Pope is guarded by the Swiss guard who stand proudly in pajamas and silly hats. Votes: 0

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him. Votes: 0

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons. Votes: 0

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. Votes: 0

We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded. Votes: 0

Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders. Votes: 0

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person. Votes: 0

The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded, Votes: 0

Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves. Votes: 0

The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly. Votes: 0

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears. Votes: 0

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides. Votes: 0

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs. Votes: 0

Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon. Votes: 0

God has guarded His Word so that only the pure in heart can see its secrets. All other efforts will fail. Votes: 0

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through. Votes: 0

There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense. Votes: 0

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions. Votes: 0

"Oscillate Wildly" is in many ways a story of first love and how it challenges our hero's guarded sense of what's possible. Votes: 0

The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society. Votes: 0

The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors. Votes: 0

I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded. Votes: 0

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves. Votes: 0

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy. Votes: 0

I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded. Votes: 0

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable. Votes: 0

I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on. Votes: 0

Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected. Votes: 0

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words. Votes: 0

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person. Votes: 0

Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!? Votes: 0

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies. Votes: 0

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three. Votes: 0

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture. Votes: 0

What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...? Votes: 0

I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something. Votes: 0

Sometimes, being happy or being nice can leave me feeling a bit hung out to dry. Especially if everyone else who I'm around is way more guarded. Votes: 0

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded. Votes: 0

Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight. Votes: 0

The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious. Votes: 0

The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character. Votes: 0

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population. Votes: 0

In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists. Votes: 0

Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition. Votes: 0

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him. Votes: 0

Whether it's her [ Hillary Clinton] guarded privacy or whatever else, I mean, there has got to be some sense that this is a human being that I can identify. Votes: 0

At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 magnum. Votes: 0

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity Votes: 0

We are not inviting"”we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security. Votes: 0

The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love. Votes: 0

But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be. Votes: 0

Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about. Votes: 0

To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love. Votes: 0

I got some very good advice once. That was: You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now. Votes: 0

Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates. Votes: 0

I have to be a little bit guarded, because I can be very open and I like to include people, but then again I have to remind myself to be careful. Votes: 0

Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him. Votes: 0

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people. Votes: 0

Although it has been a carefully guarded secret by the watchdogs of the mainstream media, eugenics programs were never discontinued worldwide, with involuntary sterilization programs continuing in many countries to this day. Votes: 0

I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he's from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it's me. Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson. Votes: 0

Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing. Votes: 0

In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret. Votes: 0

He was Will, in all his perfect imperfection; Will, whose heart was as easy to break as it was carefully guarded; Will, who loved not wisely but entirely and with everything he had. Votes: 0

Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests. "You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman. Votes: 0

It started off really"¦claustrophobic. I feel like I was really really protected. Really guarded with myself. I feel like they [Def Jam] were giving me the blueprint and I couldn't get with that Votes: 0

Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is one of the means through which they conserve their supremacy. Votes: 0

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world. Votes: 0

The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear. Votes: 0

The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded. Votes: 0

Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially possess can, however, be manifested only as a result of your own volition. Votes: 0

Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon. Votes: 0