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Quotes About Protection

He went by something an old Army buddy had told him: a good coat is like a good lawyer. It covers your ass.
~ Lee Child
They sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm." "You know George Orwell?" Yanni asked.
~ Lee Child
Plus paranoid. You can bet they did the exact same things on eighteen and twenty. Which would make their buffer zones virtually impregnable.
~ Lee Child
He said, "We need to find a way of getting you guys home before you get hurt. You want to work with me on that?
~ Lee Child
nine-millimeter automatic.
~ Lee Child
He was the Praetorian Guard, and they were the great gentlemen.
~ Lee Child
Reacher said, "They sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm." "You know George Orwell?" Yanni asked. "I went to college," Reacher said. "West Point is technically a college.
~ Lee Child
We're not insured," she said. Then she leaned under the counter and came up with a shotgun. "Not by no insurance company, anyway," she said.
~ Lee Child
about someone wearing body armor. It's
~ Lee Child
They could be mistaken for a father and daughter who liked to carry Glocks.
~ Lee Goldberg
After that experience, I immediately enrolled Julie in tae kwon do class, despite her protests. I wanted to be sure that if she were ever attacked, her instincts would take over, and that her instincts would kick ass.
~ Lee Goldberg
I made a fist and held it out. It didn't look like much—not like a fist anyone would count on for protection. If war came seeking a person I loved, that undernourished fist was not going to be enough. I would have to put my whole body in the way
~ Leif Enger
You said yourself they didn't hurt your girl." Waiting, Davy asked, "How many times does a dog have to bite before you put him down?
~ Leif Enger
I sighed. Don't let anyone tell you that looking out for your vulnerable is less than a full-time deal.
~ Leif Enger
And now, because a story is told for all, an admonition to the mindsick: Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly. Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.
~ Leif Enger
Conscious thought is a great aid in designing a car or deciphering the mathematical laws of nature, but for avoiding snake bites or cars that swerve into your path or people who may mean to harm you, only the speed and efficiency of the unconscious can save you.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
Germany has been called "the land of poets and philosophers." But its education offered the country no protection against the Sergeant Molls in its ranks.
~ Leonard Peikoff
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
InconÈ™tientul are dou? feÈ›e, deoarece ne protejeaz? de tr?irea conÈ™tient? a amintirilor dureroase È™i a experienÈ›elor asociate acestora È™i, în acelaÈ™i timp, ne împiedic? s? accept?m È™i s? înv???m din acele experienÈ›e.
~ Les Barbanell
It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap – FIX IT!!!
~ Lewis Black
Alice didn't like being criticised, so she began asking questions. Aren't you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of you? There's the tree in the middle, said the Rose: what else is it good for? But what could it do, if any danger came? Alice asked. It could bark, said the Rose. It says 'Bough-wough!' cried a Daisy, that's why its branches are called boughs!
~ Lewis Carroll
Aren't you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of you?' 'There's the tree in the middle,' said the Rose:'what else is it good for?' 'But what could it do, if any danger came?' Alice asked. 'It could bark,' said the Rose.
~ Lewis Carroll
She is a little daughter not a mother. And guess what? she likes you A LOT. You just need to man up so her mother gives her to you safely.
~ Lewis Carroll
Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.
~ Lewis Mumford