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I wasn’t always tall. I was shorter so my stepdad had me at point guard so I learned those skills.
I couldn’t be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.
I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace… on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
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.
The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.
Suge was a part-time security guard at Ruthless. He can be a very charming guy, and my initial instincts were to help him. Eazy was more perceptive: he always thought he was going to be a problem.
My nickname, when I was 15 years old in the Coast Guard, they called me ‘Hollywood’ because I went to the movies all the time. It was such great escapism. That’s why I ran away from home.
Because someone stole Gregory Peck’s star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink’s guard to protect my star!
The favorite thing I like to do is nothing. I’m such an expert at doing nothing. I have a boat. I make training films for the Coast Guard. I listen to a great deal of opera.
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
You may have to change how you guard somebody because of how they play. But the mindset stays the same – making people uncomfortable, making them do what you want them to do instead them dictating on offense.
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
I actually use women’s perfume – I have since I was a kid. It’s called Anais Anais, from Rachael. It smells like a beautiful woman and a bouquet of flowers. I use that and Right Guard deodorant.
I can’t even count how many times I’ve been pulled over. I can’t count how many times I’ve gone to a club and not got in, how many times a security guard has followed me round a shop. I can’t count how many times that somebody has asked me if I’m a footballer because I’ve come out of a nice car.
I definitely like the rubber guard. I always try to use it, especially when I’m just grappling or at the gym.
When you get older, you look at who has power differently. When you’re 21 years old, and you do something ridiculous at the National Art Gallery and get kicked out by the security guard, in your mind, you’re speaking truth to power.
Cancer can catch even the best of us off guard. Sometimes the emotions come pouring out. Sometimes they stay locked inside.
It’s kind of like, I’m just a guard.
I’m a big guard, whether a 1 or 2.
We cannot let our guard down in the face of terror.
It’s natural to me. I played point guard my whole life up until my senior year of high school. Most people don’t know that. It’s just in my game.
I won’t stand idly by watching Janet Yellen radically transform the IRS into a leftist, Praetorian Guard that spies on Americans’ private financial transactions.
I didn’t want to be taken advantage of and burnt out in the industry. I worked with my family really closely, so I was able to get that respect in the industry. So now I feel that I can let my guard down. People know who I am; I can be myself. I can be more versatile, and I can wear what I want.
I play a certain way and played like that for a while. Maybe you want a point guard to shoot 20 times, I like more to pass the ball and do my job running the team.
I don’t want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable. If you become complacent, you start feeling entitled. I’m ready to go dig ditches if I have to. Whatever I gotta do to provide for my family. Whatever I gotta do to make sure that I do the best possible job at whatever wonderful opportunities I’ve been handed.
The Revolutionary Guard Corps is the official protector of Iran’s revolution, with 100,000 troops divided into air, naval and ground divisions. It plays a large role in Iran’s economy. Its international paramilitary arm, the Quds Force, is Tehran’s main vehicle for supporting Shiite proxy forces.
Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.
I don’t want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable. If you become complacent, you start feeling entitled. I’m ready to go dig ditches if I have to. Whatever I gotta do to provide for my family. Whatever I gotta do to make sure that I do the best possible job at whatever wonderful opportunities I’ve been handed.
I’ve had to guard Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki. I’ve had to guard the best person on the opposing team.
I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide – against those things, there is no conventional guard.
Stolen scrap like manhole covers, railroad weights, stop signs, guard rails, and public lighting put our residents in grave danger. Not only that, but the theft is tearing apart communities with stolen church and cemetery ornaments.
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
I think it’s all machismo – ‘Come on, you’ve got to guard your guy, man. If you can’t guard your guy, then you can’t play defence.’ A lot of it is accountability, where you say, ‘Hey, you’re matched up with him. Go do your job.’ The zone kind of sometimes moves a lot of pieces around.
We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.
Berries are the healthiest fruit, offering potential protection against cancer and heart disease, boosting the immune system and acting as a guard for the liver and brain.
Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge – there’s nothing like a surprise.
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 favorite point guard, growing up, was Magic Johnson. The reason why I say that is he was a winner, and he did everything in his power to make his teammates better. That’s what the game is all about as a point guard.
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.
I’m a pretty athletic big, pretty versatile for how big I am. And I can dribble down the court when I want to put my point guard pants on.
Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.
When I was not a body guard, I was a substitute teacher during the day, I was bounced clubs at night and yeah, I was working.
I play everything but point guard.
You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter’s to Park Station in the city.
I wanted to be a guard. I wanted to be 6’8′ and stay there.
I’m able to defend. A lot of guys don’t have that willingness to defend and I think as a guard who’s undersized – that’s what everybody says; I’m undersized – I’m able to defend and willing to defend and bring that.
Jabari Parker is one of the best, if not the best, I’ve seen on tape. He’s so hard to guard. You’ve got to guard from 23 feet. He can shoot it, or he can go one-on-one from there. He can post. He’s so fast and long.
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.
You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.
We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.
Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.
There is little room for complacency, and it is important to guard against sporadic volatility in financial markets.
In an increasingly volatile and uncertain world, the men and women of the Iowa National Guard play a vital role in overseas contingency operations, domestic response missions and aggressive training exercises to remain a ready and reliable force.
I’ve learned to play you know the backup point guard spot and to play on the wing if need be, and it’s something I embrace.
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.
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
I don’t like Derrick Rose, he’d rather score than distribute. That’s not who I want as my point guard.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
When I get the rebound – push the ball. That couple of seconds when you’re trying to find the point guard, you’re losing in transition. You rebound, push the ball and the whole game is faster.
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.
When a point guard is unselfish and thinking about the team, about winning first, it relates to the other players. So, I think that is my style of play.
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 learned my weaknesses at the Asian Games and other competitions where I lost. My guard was down.
The border crossing is the most dangerous moment for anyone attempting to escape. But my brother and mother had been waved off by every armed border guard along that stretch of the river.
I love when people try to be physical with me. They think that’s the way to try to guard me and to get physical with me. I use that to my advantage.
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.
Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.
When they return home from serving our country, our National Guard and Reserve members shouldn’t have to be confronted with red tape in order to access the benefits they’ve earned fighting for our country.
These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.
Magic understands what it’s like to be LeBron. He was a 6’9” point guard. He was an MVP. But he was also Tragic Johnson.
Every rookie that thought they was good, I went at them to make sure they knew I was the best point guard in the league, and they had to go through me. That’s just the way I was.
Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
Just watching Steve Nash growing up, and what he did with Amare – you can’t play with a better point guard than him.
Our guards were 5-10, 5-11. Now you’ve got guys 6-9 playing guard.
I have no handles, I’m no point guard.
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
I always think of myself as a point guard.
It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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.
If you stay in the guard and control the hips and flatten him out, you can control him. And that was the start of ground-and-pound.
I want to recognize and thank all Guard members for their service. It means so much to our state and our country.
I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the ‘New York Times’ where I wrote ‘The Border Guard’ in the margin.
I just wanted to become a better player at everything – someone who is a real tough matchup to guard.
I grew up as a point guard, and as a point guard you learn how to navigate situations.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
I think my versatility is a big strength. I don’t think anybody can guard me, just because I’m 6’10 and can dribble and play point. If I have a little guy on me, I take him to the post. For me to be able to then pass the ball, it helps me a lot.
Twilight – a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.
I can play small ball because I can guard multiple positions because I can really move.
With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.
I played center but if I didn’t have to guard guys damn near twice my size every night, I was free to roam around and do a lot more. I could guard the perimeter.
When I was a kid, there was nothing better than water balloon fights. I grew up in Brooklyn: we had the fire hydrants, and we would open up a soda can at both ends and squirt people walking by. I love the kinds of things that encourage you to let your guard down, be open and vulnerable, and just to be laughing sincerely.
I know Odell Beckham is the best ballplayer I’ve ever seen in my life, and Brandon Marshall is a Hall of Fame receiver and Sterling Shepard is very quick, no one can guard him.
I’ve been fortunate to be short my entire life. There’s only one position I’ve ever had to play, and that’s point guard. So I’ve always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.
Before I got big, I was playing point guard, so I’m kinda like a pass-first person. Some people tell me I should be more selfish, but that’s not me.
Coach Kidd has taught me a lot just from the point guard position.
When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you’re watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don’t notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
I think it’s something each team has to decide on, but I think the guard of honour is supposed to be a way of paying tribute to the opposing players.
Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
I can always make trouble for who I guard and control the effort I bring.
My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for ‘Guard Dog’ when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird.
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.
I remember watching an episode of ‘Seinfeld’ in which George can’t understand why security guards can’t sit down. He gets obsessed with it and eventually buys a chair for a security guard who sits down and goes to sleep. The shop gets robbed. That’s a brilliant extrapolation of what is essentially observational comedy.
The Coast Guard has a strong presence in Mississippi and on its waterways.
Esthetically, let’s move the ball. Let’s guard people. Let’s fight.
As a child, my sister and I had very fruitful imaginations, and I would think that I wanted to be one profession or I’d want to have this experience in life. I realized it’s not because I actually wanted to be a Coast Guard helicopter rescue pilot or something like that – I just enjoyed the idea of playing it.
What I hate more than sitting out is being on the floor and not being 100 percent. You know you can make this move, or guard this guy better, but something is hampering you from doing it, and in the NBA. finals I hate that more than sitting out.
Muhammad Ali was my idol, and I always say, if Muhammad Ali had told me the exact same thing my mother, the principal, the security guard, my brothers… you know, the same thing they were telling me that I didn’t listen to, I would have listened, just because it came from Muhammad Ali.
Things happen every day. You can’t spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you’ve wasted your life.
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.
Jon Jones, grow up, bud. We’re going to fight regardless of how you feel. And when we do, and I’m cutting the line, and you might as well pull the guard because I’m taking you down.
During my administration, our desire has been to strengthen the civilian spirit of our people. Thus, we have eliminated military ranks and salutes from our civil guard.
Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him.
It’s good to know you have a pass-first point guard who will make the right plays.
Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America’s racist war in Vietnam?
I play basketball; I actually like the triangle. It opens things up if you know how to move without the ball and know how to cut. That’s the game you learn in high school and younger – pass, cut – basically the fundamentals of basketball, which makes it extremely difficult to guard.
I’ve never disguised the fact that I wasn’t happy in teaching. But the reason was that I wanted to do comedy. I would have been a very unhappy security guard or a very unhappy greengrocer.
Letterman is very intimidating because he’s so funny, so you have to be really prepared. Also, he’s a little squeamish about certain things, so you have to always be on guard to please him.
When you move into becoming more of a shooting guard, you get more catch-and-shoot three’s, lot of pin-downs and things like that where you shoot the three a lot more.
Water keepers patrol local waterways and prosecute polluters. Essentially, they act as the community’s coast guard.
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
Increased demands on the members of the Iowa National Guard often means increased time away from home and increased responsibility for those left behind.
I love switching onto a point guard or pushing the big up the court, but playing against Candace Parker would be awesome.
I can guard guys my size and bigger, because, typically, I’m stronger than them, but sometimes guys get by me on the wing. It’s not as big a deal because I can recover pretty well and I’ll block their shot at the rim, but I hate when guys go past me on the wing. I hate that.
That’s something a point guard can always work on, with keeping his dribble alive a little better. It’s so important.
Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you’re in the Army is like reading a bad review.
It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.
Point guard is like the quarterback. It’s an IQ-judgment position. The great ones are not about themselves. They’re about the others.
I’m prepared to guard anyone.
Every night, you’re going up against an elite guard and there’s really nothing you can do. You either have to be God-gifted and move your feet, or else you’re toast.
Because of my own family’s service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace… on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
I’m the best guard in this league, defensively, man, hands down.
By rejecting the Iranian nuclear deal, Congress can help achieve the original goal of isolating the bad actors in Iran – the Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, its Quds Force commander Quassem Soleimani, and the radical clerics.
I acted at school but got very bad parts – things that they’d made up in Shakespeare plays like ‘Guard 17’ – so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
I auditioned for ‘The Rainmaker.’ Nothing. I auditioned for ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.’ Nothing. ‘Antigone’ was my big break. I got a part as a Roman guard. I carried a spear.
I’m a playmaking guard, a pass-first point guard.
Roosevelt’s strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured Congress.
The amygdala is like a point guard in the emotional part of your middle brain. When it is overwhelmed, it hijacks you away from being able to access your upper rational brain and think and assess what to do. It essentially disables your ability to think.
Everyone’s gone through a breakup, and I’ve dated girls in the past where… I’ve never had a messy breakup, thankfully, but I’m never the one to end it. I’m always caught off guard as to why things ended because I guess I’m oblivious in a way.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
The person I used to watch growing up was Tony Bland. I just loved the way he played. He was a big guard, and I watched him a lot. He scored, he shared, he did a little bit of everything. I wanted to be a point guard, though it didn’t work out that way.
I’m a big guy, but I play with a guard mentality. I got that from my dad, and it’s always stayed with me.
It’s fun down there to actually go up against a 7-footer and you know you’re undersized and you know people are telling you that you can’t guard this guy, you can’t do that. I take it as a challenge.
There’s no problem with a guard of honour in any way.
You ask what position I play, I say point guard.
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
I don’t have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don’t do my own shopping; it’s a security thing.
If you’re versatile, there’s no reason a coach can’t have you in the game. That’s what my dad’s philosophy was, so from a young age, he taught me to be a guard first and a big second, though I don’t think he had a crystal ball to be able to see what the NBA would become.
I really loved traveling the U.S. and seeing regional differences within the same country and how the same ingredients are used in very different ways. I love how the ‘old guard’ of cuisine are still pioneering so much of the direction of food today.
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.
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.
You can’t expect a poodle to guard your house the way a Doberman pinscher does, and you can’t expect a Doberman pinscher to jump in your lap the way a poodle does. Some people are just animals of a certain nature, and they are always going to have certain impulses that motivate them.
Most people don’t know I like to block shots. I’m going to be a big point guard out there. So just come in and prove myself. Just show why I belong on this stage.
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.
Chicago is a world-class culinary center. We need to guard that reputation and status.
I can’t just say I wanna take a Hall of Fame point guard and make him into something else.
I’ve always been the point guard, always been the floor general out there, and it’s helped me see things I didn’t previously see on offense from a shooting guard standpoint.
98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn’t. That’s what you’re constantly on guard against.
I’ve always wanted to shoot a good percentage for my team, because I’m the point guard, and I can take fewer shots, still score more, so that I can get my teammates feeling good about themselves. That was always my feeling – that if I shoot a high percentage, I don’t have to shoot a ton.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
I want to be able to go wherever I want to go, do whatever I want to do. I guard the material and the filmmaker.
As you get a changing of the guard in Washington D.C., with different people from different sectors, you’ll start to break through the gridlock.
Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
There’s always a good point guard in this league.
I’m a bit biased with my love for Kyle Long. I would say he’s the best bald guard in football.
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience’s guard down; they’re much more willing to open themselves up and allow themselves to be questioned and have their values questioned when they don’t think we’re talking about their world or them and what they’re used to.
One thing ‘Game of Thrones’ has taught us all is to guard against too much emotional investment.
You never want to be caught off guard on the red carpet.
It’s nothing against anybody else. I just don’t feel like anybody can guard me.
I don’t think no one can guard me. It’s how I feel about myself. I don’t feel no one can stop me. You can get Darrelle Revis, Richard Sherman – whoever you want to get.
It used to be you a needed a true center to win championships, but now the point guard position holds just as much weight.
If you have a sudden emergency, earthquake, hurricane, you name it, we want to be able to have a National Guard officer able to command federal forces.
The point guard is always the leader on the floor, regardless: the extension out there on the floor for the coach.
People let their guard down a little more when they’re eating.
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
I think I’m a shooting guard and a point guard, to be honest with you.
Nash was a purist. Steve’s a Hall of Fame point guard. He was unbelievably good.
As governor of Connecticut and commander-in-chief of the Connecticut National Guard, I have a solemn responsibility to ensure that the men and women who work every day to keep us safe have the support and resources they need from their elected leaders.
While the peace process should continue, India must not lower its guard. We can’t allow our people, soldiers and police to be killed by militants from across the border – Pakistan needs to own up responsibility.
Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don’t uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to be in favor with their Father In Heaven. They know he loves them dearly.
Whenever I go to have a meeting at Universal, the security guard just leaps to his feet and comes over, bumps my hand, and says, ‘Thank you! Thank you – I love your films!’
As a point guard, I’m a coach on the floor. I know that.
Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off – even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
In 2005, our starting center, Dan Koppen, went down with a season-ending injury. Russ Hochstein was always our interior ‘swing guy’ – he played guard and center – and I remember Russ stepping in and playing beautifully.
I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.
They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I’d always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task.
I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.
A lot of states that pass voter ID laws have little to no evidence of in-person voter impersonation fraud, which is the only kind of fraud that voter ID laws could guard against.
If it’s a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.
You say you’re a comedian, you always have to be on guard.
I was playing a defensive guard in ‘My All American’ who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn’t too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
I know that guys can’t guard me one-on-one.
If you’re grappling with punches involved, you start realizing you only use certain guards. There are 3-4 different guards that you use – half-guard, open guard, and closed guard – the majority of the time.
I played point guard my whole life.
The Iraqi National Guard needs to become a reality in order to give hope to the Sunni population, and Sunni leaders that have been the focus of political prosecution should be included in the discussions of Iraq’s political future.
1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.
From early on in my career, I was always challenged to create things. Early in my career, I created ‘ground and pound.’ When I fought Royce Grace the second time, I developed that: stay on guard, follow the hips, press the legs down, press the hips down. When he rested, I ground and pounded him.
You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.
I grew up on a small holding, it was a great way to grow up and incredibly idyllic. We had a donkey and Barney the guard dog, geese, a duckling that followed my mum around and used to sit in the washing up bowl.
It’s not an easy thing to be in this league 10 years. Especially with me being a second-round pick, the 46th pick, and an undersized guard, to carve a lane for myself and have a career, for my family to realize that and appreciate that, it meant a lot to me.
Unfortunately, I’ve been burned a lot. So I have my guard up.
I legitimately would like to drive a yellow bus when I’m older so I’ve actually thought about – I want to be either a crossing guard or drive a yellow bus. Drive the kids to school or let them cross to school so, you know, that’s something I’m excited about. I’m serious about that. I think that will be great.
Congressional intervention and the availability of intervention demonstrably offset agency indifference; are a guard against arbitrary, improper, and illegal bureaucratic decisions; and provide the power of public pressure to require the nonelected official to be responsive.
And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.
My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He’s not really bad. He’s only pretend bad – I know that – but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.
On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.
I’m definitely a ‘comfort’ player. As a point guard, I like to know my teammates, feel connected to my teammates, and flow with them.
I look at like this: Any player I guard, long twos or shots like that, if they make them I still think that’s good defense. You can’t make those shots at a high percentage the whole game. It’s just hard to make long two-pointers, step-backs, fadeaways, off-the-dribble crossovers.
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.
Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard’s concept of what success is but it doesn’t mean anything.
I was the security guard that got stationed directly outside the Eagles locker room or on the field. I don’t even know what I did. But there was Jon Gruden, Ray Rhodes, Emmitt Thomas, Danny Smith, all those guys that are legends of the game.
Letting your guard down and the world into your home is very risky, I know.
Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.
For me, as a point guard, you have to construct everything. If you make everybody happy, you are going to be happy.
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.
In college, playing the two guard, I found a way to get drafted.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
I can play off the ball some, and that’s fine with me as long as I can be out on the floor. But I am definitely more natural as a point guard than I am as a two guard.
A point guard can carry a team – if he has all the right stuff.
I can’t think of much higher praise to give a player than to say, ‘This point guard reminds me of Jason Kidd.’
The biggest thing I’m seeing – and I have to be careful what I say here – is that people are tired of the old guard and the familiar brands. They’re looking for more individuality and creativity, and that’s coming out of this whole new wave of younger brands: Thom Browne, Michael Bastian, Robert Geller, myself.
To guard and to deal with others’ goods as one’s own is considered as the mark of proper trade among merchants.
My whole life, I’ve felt like I can do anything on the basketball court, from playing point guard in high school to having to play center one year in high school, doing everything in college and going through different roles in Philadelphia.
When you’re in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you’re not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you’re not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn’t failing; it’s getting too comfortable.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others.
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.
Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country.
You always have those moments of standing outside your own life and thinking, ‘This is kind of bizarre and quite wonderful.’ And I think those moments always catch you off guard.
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
Growing up in Australia and the way I was raised, my dad told me to play as a team and to be a team player. You have five guys on the court. It’s easy for five guys to defend one guy. It’s hard to guard five. It’s just a natural thing to do.
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.
Twilight – a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.
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.
When I look at myself, I’m not a big man – I’m a guard. I can do everything on the basketball court. You can name it – pass, post up, shoot the ball, bring the ball up, being a playmaker – so I’m excited to break that stereotype.
We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.
I know what I can do and I know I can pass the ball. I know I can be a true point guard and I know I can score also.
I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.
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.
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.
With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people’s attention.
I still play that guitar. It’s a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I’ve played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.
Growing up in New Orleans as Archie Manning’s son, I felt like a target, and I’ve always known that whatever I’d do, people would hear about it. So I’ve had my guard up, and maybe that’s molded my personality.
My mentality when guarding a point guard was always to try and disrupt him and take them out of the offense.
Al Jefferson. One-on-one on the post, man, can’t guard him.
Radical multicultural types will, in the end, destroy the things they claim to like, because they don’t understand that liberty and reasonable equality are features of stable, free, conservative societies based on Christian ideas, which guard their borders and are proud of their civilisation.
I’ve never let my guard down by saying, ‘I don’t need to be hedged.’
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.’
We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
I’m never going to be a point guard, but you always have guards that get the rebound and take it coast-to-coast.
It’s a mystery coming out each and every game to try and figure out how a team is going to guard me and how I’m going to dictate how my team wins.
Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
I was taller than most of the kids. When I started playing basketball, my coach put me at point guard. Europeans do that sometimes.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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 think that when Magic decided that he didn’t want to be with the organization any longer in an official capacity that took me off guard.
There’s something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.
You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think ‘The Guard’ had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.
The point guard is the most important position on the court. They often have to be the best player, not by choice but because that’s what the game demands as far as all the thinking you have to do and picking and choosing when to score or pass, things like that.
Having previously served in the regular Army, National Guard, and Reserve, I understand well the sacrifices our service members, civilians, and their families make to protect this great country.
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
I didn’t want to do two years in the regular army, my music career was just getting started. So, I joined the Guard where, after going to weekend meetings, you’d do six months of active duty, with three months of basic training and three months of on-the-job training.
Once I wrapped ‘Insurgent’, I went to Boston and shot a film called ‘The Finest Hours.’ It’s based on a real story in 1952 about a Coast Guard mission to rescue these sinking ships that are caught in a blizzard.
Apart from these, let all others remain to guard our glorious banners.
You’ve got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I’ve kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
I think visual seduction is really a lovely thing. To be able to look at something and feel you want to get closer and closer to it, and as you get closer to it, the more you drop your guard.
I think when you have the point guard guarding someone full court and just chasing the guy all around, always in the right spot, it just makes you want to get down in a stance and be his backup and have his help whenever he needs it. Or having the same energy that he has.
It would be normal for anybody running a high-profile, politically controversial operation in China to anticipate worst-case scenario, and to do everything possible to guard against them.
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
One has to be always be on guard, because mega-success comes up behind you when you’re high from all the attention, and sucks the vitality out of one’s creativity.
Because I’m so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I’m irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
I was the security guard that got stationed directly outside the Eagles locker room or on the field. I don’t even know what I did. But there was Jon Gruden, Ray Rhodes, Emmitt Thomas, Danny Smith, all those guys that are legends of the game.
There was no better end than Lance Alworth and no better lineman than Ron Mix. Those are Hall of Fame guys. There was no better guard than Walt Sweeney and no better pair of running backs than Keith Lincoln and Paul Lowe.
The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.
I’ve always been a point guard, so being a coach on the floor, I’ve had to connect with every one of my teammates and find ways to motivate them, find ways to build them up.
As the game progresses and people throw the ball more often, the tight ends have become more and more difficult to guard.
I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.
My uncle, my dad always made sure I had guard skills. But as far as defending everybody, that wasn’t really my mindset until my rookie year.
I’m able to guard multiple positions, switch and pick and rolls, guard from two to four and be able to help my defence out and rebound the basketball, block shots.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
I never got the trust to guard those great, great players with the Wizards.
Little Slater Martin, I think, was one of the best point guards ever, and we had Whitey Skoog, a great shooter, at the other guard.
Most of the time, you’re just trying to be the point guard out there based on the play call and the defense that you’re getting; that really dictates where the football goes.
I love when people think it’s going to be easy to guard me.
It’s hard to play basketball without a point guard – it’s an important position.
Of course the success of A Boy’s Own Story took me utterly off guard.
Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I’d love to see some of today’s greats playing against Elgin. They couldn’t guard him. Nobody could.
I was the first black director on ‘Dallas.’ I drove my car into the studio lot and the guard asked me who I was delivering to.
May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
Letting my guard down, trusting that someone will look after me… I’ve found that hard to do.
I didn’t see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.
I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.
Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.
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.
When you’re a point guard, man, if you’re not up to par, you’re in a lot of trouble.
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home.
People would make fun of me because they were acting like I can’t dribble. But, in my head, I was always a guard… I was like, ‘Yo, I’m tall, but I don’t care. I’m not no big man.’
As a two, you gotta see the guys I have to guard on a nightly basis, like Dwyane Wade, Kobe Bryant or J.R. Smith. I have to be mentally prepared and battle-tested.
We’re happy to work with military or other government agencies in ways that are consistent with our principles. So if we want to help improve the safety of Coast Guard personnel, that’s the kind of thing we’d be happy to work on.
A young fella snuck out on to the field somehow, but when he was coming up to give me a hug, he got smoked by the guard. He was lucky the guy didn’t break his ribs.
What I normally do before going on stage is pray – normally we do a group prayer with the crew or whoever is around, like our security guard, our tour manager and whoever else is back there and wants to pray with us.
We were walking through Petco Park after a signing, and this girl plowed through security and grabbed onto my neck and started pulling. Her grip was so impressively strong that this huge security guard was struggling to get her off of me. I was like, ‘Whoa. That’s kind of crazy.’
I try to attack the glass, get rebounds and create possessions for my teammates because that’s what I’m here to do. But if they face guard or put two or three guys on me I’m going to keep going to the glass and keep being relentless.
If I had to single one guy out who is the most difficult player to guard in the league, it would have to be Carmelo.
The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
He’s very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don’t think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn’t see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work.
When you have an almost seven-foot wingspan and can guard multiple positions, you’re going to get minutes.
We guard the shooter. A lot of guys shoot way behind the 3-point line. We guard where the shooter is, not where the line is.
I’m strong enough to guard the big guys and have enough heart to lock them down.
There’s not a lot of guys in this league who are tough for me to guard. It’s a short list.
I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center’s girls’ basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.
Growth hacking isn’t some proprietary technical process shrouded in secrecy. In fact, it has grown and developed in the course of very public conversations. There are no trade secrets to guard.
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
Power tends to corrupt – so we should, in both the public and the private spheres, be on guard against, and erect sturdy guardrails against, the corruptions of power.
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.
Me being young, I’m going to definitely mess up a lot more than I’m going to make the right play, but I want my teammates to be able to trust me and look at me as a veteran guard trying to run the team.
I worked night security for Estee Lauder. It was horrible. I worked from midnight till 8 in the morning. I did that just so I could sleep during the day, then go into Manhattan to train with Renzo at night. I would train, then go work all night in a guard booth.
My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren’t expecting, and take them in a direction that is satisfying in the here and non.
I’m not the All-Star point guard that everybody’s dreaming about right now. I’m not that. I wish I was, but I’m a work in progress and I’m not scared to admit that. But what I am is a good citizen and a guy who’s not scared to put his neck on the line for his community or for his state. And I’m always going to do that.
It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
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.
If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.
I’ve reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don’t want to write poems that aren’t necessary. I want to write poems that matter, that have an interesting point of view.
I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs – barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker – and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.
I think the biggest thing in this league is how many positions can you guard and do you have a strength offensively that’s applicable?
When I guard LeBron, I used to always want him to shoot, but he would just make the right play. He’s legendary for making the right play, and it’s really hard to guard when you’re a team player.
My 10th grade year I was 6-foot-4 and I grew to like 6-foot-7, but I still had my guard skills. I was playing point guard, I was a big guard. People started calling me ‘Penny Hardaway’ – comparing me to him because I was a big guard.
I guard my privacy zealously.
Every team I play, I’m playing them like we playing the Golden State when they had Kevin Durant. Every point guard I play, I’m playing Steph Curry. Every shooting guard I’m playing, I’m playing James Harden. Every three-man I’m playing, I’m playing LeBron and KD.
The time for invisible boundaries that guard the ‘purity’ of gaming as a niche subculture is over. The violent macho power fantasy will no longer define what gaming is all about.
Being able to hedge on a ball screen and the guy coming off and being able to guard him for a brief second and then go back and block a shot in one possessions, that’s big. There’s not many dudes that can do that.
Yes, I’m of the old guard, liberal Republican.
Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You’ve got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
Even though there will be times when I’ll need to protect myself – there will definitely be times when I’ll have to put up my guard just to monitor what comes in and out of my life – there’s a grace there… no pun intended!
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.
Being a point guard in this league, you have to balance out people – the emotions and stuff like that.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
I can rebound, block shots, push the ball – basically, anything you need from a guard. Off the court, I’m humble.
Sometimes, my manager is caught off guard by me talking to myself, so he’ll start talking back to me.
I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn’t.
I know that sounds almost horribly cheesy, but that is what has to happen if you’re gonna make a relationship work for a long time: You have to keep learning new things that are interesting about this person or having them catch you off guard and have these little moments of intense appreciation.
I’m a pass-first point guard that tries to get everybody involved.
I’m always on my guard now.
The thing you have to be on guard against, more than anything, is self-sabotage. You have to make sure you’re not your own worst enemy.
Radical multicultural types will, in the end, destroy the things they claim to like, because they don’t understand that liberty and reasonable equality are features of stable, free, conservative societies based on Christian ideas, which guard their borders and are proud of their civilisation.
Struve has great jiu-jitsu and I must avoid that. But when I’m in his guard, I can’t be defensive, I have to go for kimuras, americanas and all of that.
When you play guard, you’re not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you’re going to block shots.
The great Chicago teams when Tex Winter and Phil Jackson were there – the triangle was just amazing. I know Michael Jordan was great, but everybody touched the ball, everybody cut, everybody moved. It was just so hard to guard.
During the season, I’m always locked in one gear, ready to play basketball, always keeping my guard up.
It’s hard to guard when you have two point guards on the floor because you don’t know who to pick up.
I’ve been called a point guard, I’ve been called a traffic cop, I’ve been called a ringmaster, a lion tamer, whatever. And I guess the thing about the traffic cop is I’m more of a rogue traffic cop because a good traffic cop doesn’t want any fender benders.
I think visual seduction is really a lovely thing. To be able to look at something and feel you want to get closer and closer to it, and as you get closer to it, the more you drop your guard.
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 had a lot of doubt coming into my career about being an elite point guard in this league.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Being from New York, everybody’s a point guard. Even when you play in the park, you’ve got to know how to handle the ball. If you can’t handle the ball, you can’t really play.
That was like my safe place with great teachers where everyone could let down their guard and not feel judged. As soon as we walk outside, it was like, ‘Look at these weird drama club kids.’ But we all had our own agreement that we were cool in our own way.
Writing ‘Native Guard,’ I didn’t know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
If you tell Canadians that you want to interview them for a critical piece on the Canadian healthcare system, they’ll put on their best trophy-wife smile for the camera and list its many accolades. Catch them on a day with their guard down in need of actual care, however, and the truth comes out.
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it’s just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight – audience, performance, and palace guard.
It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
Kris Dunn is a very athletic point guard.
You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
Any guard would love playing with a great big man, one who rebounds, blocks shots, and scores.
Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
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.
Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
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.
Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche.
This is going to sound horrible, but I don’t even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it’s more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I’ll ever need.
When you trust, and you open your heart, and you think – well, maybe not heart – when you put down your guard and you let someone in and they betray you, that guard goes up really hard.
Special ops isn’t the answer to everything. Special ops is not the main guard.
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
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.
We have freedom of religion in our country, yet we must guard against forcible conversions or through pecuniary enticements.
For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking.
God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.
I’ve got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.
I feel like, since tagging with Cesaro, I’ve let my guard down.
Elvis couldn’t leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.
I wouldn’t call myself a real point guard.
Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I’d left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice – ‘Hey, man, I’m Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?’ The guard waved me through.
Before the combine, there were a lot of questions about whether I could guard multiple positions.
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.
Playing point guard is someone’s instincts. They’re used to that. That’s my instincts.
The hardest guy I had to guard: Hakeem Olajuwon. No one can guard Hakeem. And then, Kevin McHale.
There’s an old guard of drag, like the queens who got as big as they could possibly get before there was a TV show dedicated to drag queens.
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
Dave Cockrum’s work at Marvel and DC defined my childhood and inspired me to be a comic book creator. Without Dave, there is no New ‘X-Men’ resurgence, there is no Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler, Lilandra, Star Jammers, or the Imperial Guard. His influence on generations of fans cannot be measured.
Sitting on the House Armed Services Committee is a great responsibility and an opportunity to represent not only the thousands of veterans in the 33rd Congressional District of Texas that I represent in Dallas-Fort Worth but also the active-duty men and women of our armed forces, national guard, and reserve components.
Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.
I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there’s a guard that was going to stop me.
I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write – on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.
Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?
The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
I remember when I was a rookie, there was an article in ‘USA Today’ that said, ‘Larry Bird, he’s lost a step.’ That night I went out to guard him, he scored, like, 47 on me.
The height of my athletic achievement was in 8th grade when I was the point guard for my Jewish day school basketball team. We played in a public school league and, amazingly, went undefeated. I say ‘amazingly’ because our power forward was 5 ft. 6 in.
It’s not requirement to have a point guard, you can have skill players with 3 or 4 guys on the same team playing multiple positions.
Personally, in my home, the district in central New York, the Air National Guard base, not 5 years ago, the commandant came through and said, This is one of the sorriest looking bases I have ever seen.
Marc Gasol, he’s one of the hardest people to guard. His ability to pass, shoot, and his size is something that can be a benefit to him a lot.
I wasn’t a point guard. I was a killer.
I feel like I can play point guard for any team in the league and average a double-double.
Heck yes; a center always likes to shoot like a guard. But that just wasn’t my thing to do.
In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others.
Bogut – I wouldn’t be the defender I am without Bogut. He taught me a ton. Angles. How to guard the post. You name it, he taught me a ton.
I grew up as a point guard, and as a point guard you learn how to navigate situations.
You know what I’ve always wanted to do? I’ve always wanted to put a lung in a suitcase and send it through an airport security check. In effect, the guard would be looking at an X-ray of a lung.
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.
Sometimes, it’s the little plays that I make that can change the outcome of the game – whether it’s blocking a shot or blitzing a guard or getting an offensive rebound.
It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I’m very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.
Homeland defense doesn’t generate any force requirements beyond having enough National Guard to save lives in natural disasters and to baby-sit nuclear power plants on Code Red days.
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can’t keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer’s side of the partition.
Ever since I was little, I always played point guard. All throughout high school, junior high. I hit a couple growth spurts and the guard thing just always stayed with me. It just comes natural.
We have to keep up our guard. We won’t get the risk of Ebola to zero in the U.S. until we stop it in West Africa. And Ebola is hard to fight. It requires intensity. It requires speed and flexibility.
Nothing would catch me off guard, because I understand the world I live in. I understand it very well. And the world I live in is not necessarily a fair or just world. I have dealt with these injustices for the bigger part of my life.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
I said it’s a cold universe and I don’t mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it’s cold. It’s really cold and we don’t know what’s up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there’s a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?
The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.
My main improvement on defense has just been my coaches. They’ve been teaching me defensive schemes, how to guard guys, and how to use my length.
It’s hard to be the point guard, especially playing with a young team.
I enjoy repartee and frequently engage in devil’s advocacy. In short, when I talk to friends, I do not guard every word that I say because I think that I know they know that my commitment to equality and justice is real, and they would not twist my words or misinterpret what I am saying to them.
I’m going to find my minutes to do something really well to help my team. Whether that’s pushing the ball really fast down the court and trying to beat them up the court, rebounding at the guard spot, or something else, I’m going to get in there and do it.
I couldn’t bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
We have to lower our guard and know saying something’s wrong isn’t a bad thing.
We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.
From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard’s duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.
My goal stays the same of wanting to be an NBA point guard.
People mess up. They say things when their guard is down.
Obviously teams know, and everyone in the league knows how much I like to touch the paint. And with them having to guard my 3-point shot, it’ll only make it easier for me to touch the paint.
Magic Johnson is one of the greatest players to ever play… he’s the best point guard to ever play, so I can learn a lot of things from him.
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.
It’s the little things. That’s kind of what I bring to the table in terms of doing things that might not show up in the box score. Diving for a loose ball, or switching out on a guard and getting that big stop, cutting someone’s water off if they’ve made a couple shots.
While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
Do this rubber guard stuff and I’ll punch you in the nose.
President and Mrs. Kennedy would walk into the East Room with their honored guests, preceded by the military color guard, who then posted their flags behind the receiving line. This ceremony never failed to move all of us, no matter how many times the staff witnessed it.
Give up pride for good during the holidays. This is where I’ve been especially stubborn. As I walk more and more in this path of Christianity, I see that letting my guard down and admitting that I don’t want to be alone is far better than dealing with me, myself and I, who always seem to want to keep up appearances.
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.
There’s a lot of big guys who can play-make. We put labels like, ‘Oh, he’s a point guard, he’s a center.’ But sometimes your center can play-make for you and not just be the center, boxing out for rebounds and playing in the post.
The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that it’s easier for the central bank to guard its independence from political pressure when it mainly holds government securities.
I’m not trying to get back on a team, but I have tried to stay in shape just in case a team needs a point guard. A championship team. I wouldn’t go to any other team.
When you’re a ‘product’ for a lot of people, they’re only really after one thing, and so it’s hard to completely let down your guard.
