Shields quotes
106 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!"
"Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you."
"God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it."
"The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind."
"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority."
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"For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself"
"Come back with your shield - or on it"
"The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him."
"I have a shield. It's the most amazing shield ever. I don't see them. I don't feel them. If anything, "Hey come over, let me touch you so I can heal you." You get what I'm saying?"
"Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight."
"The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions."
"It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment."
"ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon."
"I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon."
"My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth."
"The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future."
"Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm."
"I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you."
"I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult."
"If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?"
"The truth is often one's best shield."
"Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield."
"When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!"
"Such power I gave the people as might do, Abridged not what they had, now lavished new, Those that were great in wealth and high in place My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace. Before them both I held my shield of might, And let not either touch the other's right."
"I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day."
