Guarded Quotes

• When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Guarded

• Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Secure
  • Reserve
  • Bolts

• I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Share
  • Guarded
  • Social Situation

• There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Prisoners
  • Guarded
  • Princes

• As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Long
  • Interest
  • Discussion

• The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Mind
  • Gold
  • Missing

• A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog's eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, "What do you want me to do for you? I'll do anything for you." Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don't have sheep (I never have) is another matter. The dog is willing.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Eye
  • Dog
  • Facts

• It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living animals are expressed with words of Germanic origin-calf (German 'Kalb'), swine (G. 'Schwein'), and ox (G. 'Ochse')-because the servants who guarded them were the conquered Anglo-Saxons. The names of the meats are of Romance origin-veal (French 'veau'), pork (F. 'porc') and beef (F. 'boeuf')-because those who enjoyed them were the conquering Norman masters.

  

  Kató Lomb
  • Romance
  • Conquer
  • Calves

• I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Breathe
  • Relaxed
  • Guarded

• It's guarded by units of the British army and I can never come up to this border without experiencing deep feelings of anger and resentment.

  

  Charles Haughey
  • Army
  • Anger
  • British

• The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.

  

  Alonzo King
  • Art
  • Deep
  • Guarded

• The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons.

  

  Adam Nevill
  • Treasures
  • Dragons
  • Guarded

• By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Word
  • Guarded
  • Deed

• I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?

  

  Margaret Bourke-White
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Feelings

• She loved the contrast between his tough-guy image and the sensitive heart he guarded so well.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Loved
  • Image
  • Guarded

• Sometimes, being happy or being nice can leave me feeling a bit hung out to dry. Especially if everyone else who I'm around is way more guarded.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Happy
  • Feeling
  • Guarded

• In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

  

  David Bezmozgis
  • Experience
  • Emotion
  • Pragmatic

• Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

  

  Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
  • Working
  • Relax
  • Parties

• Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.

  

  Cheyenne McCray
  • Library
  • Demon
  • Gates

• I have to be a little bit guarded, because I can be very open and I like to include people, but then again I have to remind myself to be careful.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • People
  • Careful
  • Remind

• A lie is an excuse guarded.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Lie
  • Excuse
  • Guarded

• Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Awake
  • Guarded

• I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'

  

  Ryan Adams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Honest

• Hillary Clinton has been very guarded with the press.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Presses
  • Guarded

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