Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.
The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.
In the NBA they’ve taken away so much of the hand-checking and the physicality of how guys are able to guard you. So if you touch me, I’m gonna throw the ball toward the rim and get shots.
To be a point guard, to run the team and have the ball in my hands and try to make plays for others – that’s who I am.
The attorney general would call at 5 o’clock in the evening and say: ‘Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we’re likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.’
There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of a well-regulated militia, i.e., the armed forces including the National Guard. The reasons for keeping them away from everyone else get clearer by the day.
I wanted to be a guard. I wanted to be 6’8′ and stay there.
Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.
I want to guard the best wings and big on every team. I want to make their night tough to gain that respect defensively around the league.
Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?
It’s nothing against anybody else. I just don’t feel like anybody can guard me.
As a small guard, you need to understand how you impact the game and make sure you impact it in the way that you can showcase your talent on the floor and having that understanding of the game. Tony Bennett was a smaller guard, too. We all have different strengths.
Ever since being vocal in being a human being, I’ve been proud to kind of step away from Bubba Wallace the athlete and to step up as Bubba Wallace the human and not be so, ‘I don’t know If I can touch that;’ ‘I don’t know if I can say these types of things.’ I’m letting that guard down.
I spent the whole time I’ve been in WWE trying to build this character who is unbreakable, who is not vulnerable, and who is not relatable. For me to let down my guard and let people in, I had to make that decision, and once I did, I had to own it.
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
I’m a lead-by-example guy but also vocal because I’m the point guard.
The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That’s why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator’s whim.
Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants – despite the Coast Guard’s determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.
Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.
We’re looking at the court as X’s and O’s and plays that can happen, two three steps ahead of time. That’s what the best point guards do. As you grow into a point guard that’s what you learn, and eventually, you tend to grasp that.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on… we had some good times.
Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters.
It’s hard to play basketball without a point guard – it’s an important position.
All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.
A film has a beginning, middle, and an end. There is a certain amount of time that you have to embody these people. You know the entire story arch. But on TV, you have to let your guard down. You don’t know how long the show is going to last. There is this excitement that comes with developing a character long-term.
With the quarterback position, because you’re touching the ball every single snap, you want to make a play and you just have to guard against that. It’s about making the plays that come to you, not necessarily chasing after plays.
My whole life I played the point, so naturally I think as a point. Two guard, I get to score more… During the game, I like to mix it up.
I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
I couldn’t go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don’t ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.
The hardest thing to do is be a point guard, learn how to be a point guard in the NBA as a young player because you gotta earn your respect first of all the old guys, all the old heads. You gotta command where to go, know the plays.
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
I played point guard my whole life.
I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.
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.
If someone wants to call me a Harlem Globetrotter, well, great, go ahead. I was very good at basketball. I was a really good point guard. I was the best passer.
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.
I’ll try to help everybody. That’s what I try to do as a point guard.
With U.S. support, Israel has developed a cutting-edge missile defense system that one day may be used to guard America, just as Israeli technology protects the vehicles that U.S. soldiers drive in Afghanistan.
I have a short, home-made armguard because I don’t like the regular ones. I’d wear that on a lively pitch. I don’t use a chest guard because I find it too restrictive.
Social democracy… is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
I never thought ‘Sodapop Curtis’ would announce my retirement. I always thought I would be the one to announce it. I’m a huge fan of the movie, but that caught me way off guard. I can’t explain it.
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That’s pretty much the central theme running through my work. It’s about people’s awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that.
I played the two guard in college, and playing point guard is what I’ve done all my life.
I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.
I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting character. I think that once people put their guard down and their preconceived notions of what the show is supposed to be and just allowed it to really be good science fiction.
One thing that the coaching staff and the assistant coaches did a really good job of working me on was shaping myself into an NBA guard.
I don’t know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
There’s nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I’m not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.
I’m here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.
