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Quotes About Protection

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms
~ John Connolly
That is what we do for the ones we love: we lie to protect them. Not all truths are welcome.
~ John Connolly
V-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y, David explained that without slates on the roof, the rain would get in. In their way, they were just as important as walls. Dr. Moberley asked David if he was afraid of the rain getting in. David told him that he didn't like getting wet. It wasn't so bad outside, especially if you were dressed for it, but most people didn't dress for rain indoors.
~ John Connolly
She had not given me the cross to keep the bad men away, as a child might have been expected to do. No, in her mind the bad men could not be kept away. They were coming, and they would have to be faced.
~ John Connolly
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~ John Connolly
He didn't just give you a pretty screen saver, ignoring all the viruses, porn and spyware on your hard drive. He wiped the whole hard drive out.
~ John Crowder
He took his furred hat from its peg and drew on his gloves.
~ John Crowley
Nutshells close and encapsulate, shelter and protect, reduce and simplify, while everything in deconstruction is turned toward opening, exposure, expansion, and complexification, toward releasing unheard of, undreamt of possibilities to come , toward cracking nutshells wherever they appear.
~ John D. Caputo
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee (Isa. 43:2).
~ John D. Morris
Soldiers defending a country at war are not subject to the rules of procedure designed for court trials. For example, if a soldier encounters an enemy, under internationally agreed upon rules of war, that soldier can take whatever action is necessary to protect himself and neutralize his enemy, whether it involves capturing and detaining the enemy or killing him on the spot.
~ John David Ashcroft
Good Sunglasses - Royallie sunglasses
~ John Doe
The heart of God's justice is to make sure that the "weak and the orphan" have received their share of God's resources for them to live and thrive. Retributive justice comes in only when that ideal is violated.
~ John Dominic Crossan
So well hast thou provided that we should always fear thee, as that thou hast provided that we should fear no person but thee, nothing but thee; no men? No. Whom? The Lord is my help and my salvation, whom shall I fear? [74] Great enemies? Not great enemies, for no enemies are great to them that fear thee.
~ John Donne
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
~ George Eliot
I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.
~ Hugh Hefner
I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
~ Youssou N'Dour
You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.
~ Yvon Chouinard
Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last
~ John Frusciante
Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.
~ Jon Foreman
He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
~ Maurice Sendak
But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it.
~ Costa Georgiadis
The forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live.
~ Evaristo Nugkuag
Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.
~ Ezra Taft Benson