Quotes About Protection

and though it was three in the morning, and he had to traverse some of the nastiest quarters in Paris, trouble passed him by. Everyone knows that God watches over drunkards and lovers.

Lo que voy a deciros se os antojará extraño a vosotros, señores socialistas, progresistas, humanitaristas, y es que yo no me ocupo nunca de mi prójimo, no procuro nunca proteger a la sociedad que no me protege, y diré aún más, que no se ocupa generalmente de mí, sino para perjudicarme, y retirándoles mi estimación y guardando la neutralidad frente a ellos, es aún la sociedad y mi prójimo quienes me deben agradecimiento.

I never seek to protect a society which does not protect me, and which I will even say, generally occupies itself about me only to injure me;

Don't hope too much, Bertuccio,' said the count. 'The wicked do not die in that way: God seems to take them under his protection to use them as the instruments of his vengeance.

Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting deity.

What melancholy thought,' said the King, 'can possibly reach your heart when I place mine as a rampart before it?

Si je n'étais pas amant, j'étais plus qu'un ami, plus qu'un frère; j'étais l'arbre auquel, pauvre lierre, elle s'abritait, j'étais le fleuve qui emportait sa barque à mon courant, j'étais le soleil d'où lui venait la lumière; tout ce qui existait d'elle existait par moi, et probablement le jour n'était pas loin où ce qui existait par moi existerait aussi pour moi.

Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.

Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.

Maria Owens did what she did for a reason. She was young and she thought damning anyone who loved us would protect us. But what she had with that terrible man wasn't love. She didn't understand that when you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together. That is not a curse, it's what life is, my girl. We all come to ruin, we turn to dust, but whom we love is the thing that lasts.

You are my armor and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for.

Never watch another woman burn

But try as you might to protect people from danger, you cannot keep them from their true nature.

Feelings are best left concealed. They can bite you if you're not careful. They can eat you alive.

If a woman is in trouble, she should always wear blue for protection.

Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.

She was remembering everything. How love could change a person, how it could cause you the greatest sorrow or shelter you from harm.

Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her.

I was making a different sort of heart, one that was black, one that was protected by thorns, by bats, by raven's wings, by sorrow, by my aloneness, my armour

the eldest who had the misfortune of being too beautiful and had a far off look in her eyes. Madame Cohen had seen what could happen to girls like that, they were picked off like fruit on a tree, devoured by blackbirds.

I knelt by the fire to make certain there were no burning embers left. That was when I spied the tracks of a lion. There were only a few such beasts left in the desert, but one had come here, answering my call. He had been there all the while, watching over me, before he left me at last.

They sat in the light of a lantern and drank cups of Courage Tea, a blend of currants, spices, and thyme, made for protection and healing, a mixture that needed to steep for a long time. It was an elixir that made it clear one should never hide who one was. That was the first step toward courage. In this way, magic began.

Sisters were sisters, after all, and if they didn't stick up for each other, who would?

Blue must be worn for protection.