Offence Defence Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the best way to find what you really desire in life is to stop looking for it. — T.R. Wallace

It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation. — Michael Douglas

At a training session Neymar dribbled around seven opponents before he scored. It was the senior squad's offence against the senior squad's defence so we are talking about skilled players here. The goal was better than his goal that was chosen as the best in the world. — Peter Banke

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I! — Edward Dyer

When we make decisions that honor our dreams and priorities, we also make choices about what we won't prioritize. We must embrace these choices as well. — Sarah Hackley

A good example is more irritating than a bad one. — John McAfee

Susan came into the living room with her cowboy boots on and no other clothes. "Howdy," I said. — Robert B. Parker

This has just came in from high command. There will be no loitering on the beachhead. Anyone found skinny dipping or fishing with grenades will be put on a charge. Two marines have already been disciplined for this offence.' A few men laughed and he smiled. 'Also there will be no fraternisation with the local female populace. This will not be tolerated. High command believe they may well carry some exotic disease our doctors may not be able to treat.' That brought a little more laughter. 'Again two marines have already been disciplined,' the rest of his sentence was drowned out by the laughter. He waited until it died down again. 'In their defence the marines stated that the females plied them with a local beverage made from coconuts. As there doesn't seem to be any coconut trees in space the high command disbelieved their story. So don't try it, you won't get away with it. — J.W. Murison

THE BOTTOMS" succeeded to "Hell Row". Hell Row was a block of thatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane. There lived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away. The brook ran under the alder trees, scarcely soiled by these small mines, whose coal was drawn to the surface by donkeys that plodded wearily in a circle round a gin. And all over the countryside were these same pits, some of which had been worked in the time of Charles II, the few colliers and the donkeys burrowing down like ants into the earth, making queer mounds and little black places among the corn-fields and the meadows. And the cottages of these coal-miners, in blocks and pairs here and there, together with odd farms and homes of the stockingers, straying over the parish, formed the village of Bestwood. — D.H. Lawrence

What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first. — Patrick Rothfuss

It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that's so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It's enormously powerful. — Josh Fox

I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache. — Christine Lakin

We are synonyms but not the same. — Tahereh Mafi

I don't eat anything that runs away from me. — Russell Simmons

A man is no more than breath until his breath fashions the words that others cannot forget. — A.J. Darkholme

To demand the art forms of yesterday in either word systems or art is a bourgeois failure. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Most people just see ski racing during the Olympics. — Mikaela Shiffrin

I believe that every interaction is an act of fate in some way, that we're meant to interact with them, and it's our job to flesh that out and experience it to the fullest and learn the lessons we're meant to. — Megan Fox