Everybody has said or done the wrong thing and regretted it later, but at the time, you really couldn’t help it! As you get older, you’re more guarded, but that’s a really tough process of learning, to be brutally honest, about some things and keeping your mouth shut about others.
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. They’re very worried about how people are going to react to what they say.
I’m getting guarded like nobody else in the country is being guarded, scouted on like no one else in the country is.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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.
I’ll talk to any stranger about everything. I’m not guarded.
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.
I’ll talk to any stranger about everything. I’m not guarded.
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
People have their guard down when they’re laughing, so they’re open to tougher conversations they wouldn’t necessarily have. If somebody is guarded while laughing, they’re a weirdo.
In the ’70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It’s much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn’t as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reddit is like any democratic form of government – unless carefully guarded by its leaders and members, its trusts and privileges can be and often are abused.
I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.
Everybody has said or done the wrong thing and regretted it later, but at the time, you really couldn’t help it! As you get older, you’re more guarded, but that’s a really tough process of learning, to be brutally honest, about some things and keeping your mouth shut about others.
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
My whole life, I’ve guarded guys bigger than me.
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.
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.
Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.
It’s very important that your work reaches people and it is marketed professionally and guarded well against piracy. For all of those reasons, I take into account the credibility of the team I work with.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I’m a little guarded and hardened to that.
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.
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.
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.
I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.
When everyone thinks they know you, it’s hard not to be guarded.
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.
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.
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.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I’m a little guarded and hardened to that.
At home, I am a private person, and I like keeping it that way. Maybe that is why I come out as being guarded about my personal life.
I’m a very guarded person, very controlled person.
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