#guards

I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#compare #could #damn #did #down

If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#children #constantly #families #going #guantanamo

That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#conducting #did #equipped #guards #iraqi

Ersken gathered the dice, put them in the cup they had used for play, and tucked it inside one bound Rat's shirt. "Let that be a lesson to you not to gamble," he told the Rat soberly. "The trickster asks you pay for any luck you may have, one way or another." "Bless the boy, he's a priest with it," one of the Goddess warriors said with a grin. "After this, laddie, what's say I take you home and rub some of that off yez?" Ersken actually winked at her! "Forgive me, gracious warrior, but my woman would turn me into something unnatural if I took you up on your kind offer," he replied as if he truly regretted it. "She's a mage and I'd best stay devoted. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#gamblers #graceful-letdown #guards #repriminding #forgiveness

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards. ↗

— Judith Martin

#find #guards #home #most #people

The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly. ↗

— John H. Morgan

#arms #come #deliver #fail #government

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#bodyguards #certified #highly #i #public

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#against #assault #asset #been #essential

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#attention #avoid #because #draws #either

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx. ↗

— Al Pacino

#bronx #i #need #south #south bronx