#fence

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kow-towed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income. It is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts. Still, it is a family. It has its private language and its common memories, and at the approach of an enemy it closes its ranks. A family with the wrong members in control - that, perhaps is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ↗

— George Orwell

#conspiracy #control #defence #england #family

It makes a difference, doesn’t it, whether we fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?’ ‘Fences are fences, especially when they are in the same place. ↗

— A Room With a View

#fence #freedom #ristrictions #freedom

When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them and your will see them dissolving in front of your eyes. ↗

— Roopleen

#aim #ambition #attitude #celebrate #challenges

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#areas #defence #drive #great #hardware

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defence #lies #possibility #victory

My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#aerial #anybody #because #climbed #decided

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#army #attack #country #defence #experienced

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence. ↗

— Russell Brand

#analysis #applying #big #could #defence

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#believing #defence #deserves #doing #get

Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us had to grow up in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, and we just had to adapt to our environment. I know that it's wrong. But people act like it's some crazy thing they never heard of. They don't know. ↗

— Michael Vick

#adapt #crazy #dog #environment #family