Quotes on the topic: Guard


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You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.


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.


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 don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.


I'm always on my guard now.


The hardest guy I had to guard: Hakeem Olajuwon. No one can guard Hakeem. And then, Kevin McHale.


The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.


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.


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.


I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.


It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.


Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.


Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.


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.


Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.


The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard.


I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.


Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.


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.


You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.