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Quotes About Protection

But pieces of paper do not stop bullets and rockets. Paper promises that fall from the sky cannot be trusted.
~ Eric Blehm
Trojan is a no-blow-job- condom. The flavor is horrible. Someone should come up with a barbecue-flavored condom for the hood. But greedy bitches would probably start chewing dicks.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
His rod, his staff, it comforted me.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
And a thought occurred to me: the walls of the penitentiary guarding this pacifist were taller and more impenetrable than any of the fences at Y-12.
~ Eric Schlosser
Thomas K. Jones, an undersecretary of defense, played down the number of casualties that a nuclear war might cause, arguing that families would survive if they dug a hole, covered it with a couple of doors, and put three feet of dirt on top. "It's the dirt that does it," Jones explained. "Everyone's going to make it if there are enough shovels to go around.
~ Eric Schlosser
Even if the locking and unlocking mechanisms worked flawlessly, use of the weapons would depend on effective code management. If only a few people were allowed to know the code, then the death of those few or an inability to reach them in an emergency could prevent the weapons from being unlocked. But if the code was too widely shared, the locks would offer little protection against unauthorized use. The
~ Eric Schlosser
I quickly learned that a book carefully arranged before your face was a bulletproof shield, an asbestos wall, a cloak of invisibility. I learned to take refuge behind books, to become, as my mother and father called me, 'the absentminded professor-' They screamed at me, but I couldn't hear. I was reading. I was writing. I was safe.
~ Erica Jong
Beware of the man who wants to protect you; he will protect you from everything but himself
~ Erica Jong
People do not see that the main question is not : Am I loved? which is to a large extent the question : Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired? The main question is: Can I love?
~ Erich Fromm
You know how sporting events are. No one questions grown-ups hanging around. It's a pedophile picnic." Rauser glanced over at me as we walked back to the car. "That's how you see kids and sports?" "You know me. Ray of sunshine.
~ Amanda Kyle Williams
I would walk into hell to keep you safe.
~ Amanda Quick
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I wish to you sunshine, my dear one, my dear one. And treetops for you to soar past. I wish to you innocence, my child, my child. I pray you don't grow up too fast. Never know pain, my dear one, my dear one. Nor hunger nor fear nor sorrow. Never know war, my child, my child. Remember your hope for tomorrow.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
It is better to be safe than sorry.
~ American Proverb
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
~ American Proverb
Yehuda Amichai's lines: hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.
~ Ami Ayalon
The wall between the men's and women's rooms was built like a fortress, and solid bars covered the windows—they'd been put there by the proprietors to protect the girls' honour. Instead they'd served as a death sentence. Isn't that always the way, Mrs. Fisher had thought, man's fears causing him to do things that lead to far greater sins.
~ Ami McKay
Mother, if you love her- Mother, if you love her, keep her clean. Mother, if you lover her, keep her-
~ Ami McKay
Eure Lippen haben sich gestreift, sind auseinander dann, Als sei euer Anteil am Glück bereits verbraucht und als hättet ihr Angst, vom Glück der anderen schon zu kosten. Ihr wart unschuldig? Wovor hat Unschuld je bewahrt? Selbst der Schöpfer sagt uns, wir sollen zu Festen Lämmer schlachten, Nie aber Wölfe...
~ Amin Maalouf
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
A government for protecting the coarser interests of the body, business and bread only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption to decay.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott