Nondefensive Quotes & Sayings

I thought I would go out, and see if the air would make me feel any better. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed ... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own. — Paul Robeson

Great marriages have an ease about them, a back-and-forth nonreactive, nondefensive, open, and ongoing flow in which you never stop talking and figuring it out together. — Rob Bell

I state in my book 'Become Your Own Matchmaker,' confidence is the key to any endeavor. Women don't realize that when they do things they love and are passionate about - their confidence soars. Men are attracted to women who feel happy and decisive about life. — Patti Stanger

Is easy, particularly if home has been a place of abuse or neglect. But oftentimes leaving home is difficult, especially if home has been a good place. Of course that is what home is meant to be: a good place, a place — Austin Fischer

Immaculate Deception. — Brad Meltzer

It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance ... — Virginia Woolf

The treasures of wisdom are hidden not from us, but for us, in Christ. — Matthew Henry

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling. — Peter Zumthor

Well, you know what they say. If you can't join 'em, beat 'em. — Samantha Steele

Showed me a strong woman doesn't need keeping, but feels good to take care of her all the same. Better, you gotta fight for that privilege. — Kristen Ashley

In general, an ideal partner is (a) open and nondefensive, (b) honest and nonduplicitous, (c) affectionate and easy-going, (d) mentally and physically healthy, (e) independent and successful in his or her chosen career or lifestyle, and (f) aware of a meaningful existence that includes humanitarian values. — Robert W. Firestone

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible. — Taylor Swift