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Quotes About Protection

Widespread fears, even if they are unreasonable, should not be ignored by policy makers. Rational or not, fear is painful and debilitating, and policy makers must endeavor to protect the public from fear, not only from real dangers.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Rational or not, fear is painful and debilitating, and policy makers must endeavor to protect the public from fear, not only from real dangers.
~ Daniel Kahneman
and near victims are very concerned after a disaster. After each significant earthquake, Californians are for a while diligent in purchasing insurance and adopting measures of protection and mitigation. They tie down their boiler to reduce quake damage, seal their basement doors against floods, and maintain emergency supplies in good order. However
~ Daniel Kahneman
Johanna non sarebbe mai venuta a sapere di quelle visite, lo aveva giurato a se stesso, avrebbe mentito perfino sotto tortura. Era tenuto ad allontanare da lei ogni dolore, non a dirle la verità. Sapere è doloroso. Non passava giorno senza che si augurasse di avere meno conoscenza.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
whose four-story limestone mansion at 12 West 49th was sufficient for himself and his wife, while the neighboring houses at numbers 10 and 14 provided him with protection against development from the east and, to his west, a place to store his books and paintings.
~ Daniel Okrent
O gods, from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan—deliver us. —TRADITIONAL HINDU PRAYER
~ Daniel P. Bolger
The body concentrates vitamin C around brain and nerve cells specifically to protect them from oxidation and free-radical damage, because vitamin C is one of nature's most powerful antioxidants.
~ Daniel P. Reid
The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Et puis s'accuser tous azimuts, on se met à l'abri de bien des exigences. (p.116)
~ Daniel Pennac
The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
the looting began—a wild orgy of self-dealing, kickback schemes, siphoning, embezzlement, protection rackets, tax fraud, and outright theft that enriched the men around the new president.
~ Daniel Silva
For better or worse, security was one of the few growth industries in France. Just
~ Daniel Silva
You exist in this place, you sleep peacefully in this land tonight, because of people like me.
~ Daniel Silva
We did what we always do. We closed ranks, burned our files, and waited for the storm to pass.
~ Daniel Silva
The man is free who is protected from injury.
~ Daniel Webster
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.
~ Daniel Webster
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God.
~ Danielle Girard
If anyone tries to grab you, you know what to do?" I rolled my eyes again. "Cut his dick off." "That's right," Grandma said. She pointed at me and tilted her head up to look me in the eye. "If anybody ever puts their hands on you, you cut their pecker right off.
~ Danielle Henderson
Throughout the eighties, kidnapping was deployed as an empty threat by overworked, exhausted parents who wanted to keep us close enough to elude Child Protective Services but far enough away to not ever have to see, hear, or smell anything we were playing with.
~ Danielle Henderson
Dr Seraphina gazed at Gabriella with a cool, assessing eye. "What do you believe Gabriella?" "I believe that if we do not protect our traditions from those who would destroy them, soon there will be nothing left to interpret." "Ah, so you are a warrior, then," Dr Seraphina said, challenging Gabriella. "There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.
~ Danielle Trussoni
Those who came before us, with their family names and genetic legacies, with their physical peculiarities, whether it be albino skin or brown eyes—none of this mattered. Family was who we loved and who we protected. Family was the tribe we created here and now.
~ Danielle Trussoni
People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. [We] need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.
~ Danny Hillis
I found shelter from a thin rain in the laundrette opposite, the hot air thick with Persil.
~ Danny Wallace
When Life comes to feed, make sure you are not the main course. - Metaphysical Minute
~ Dannye Williamsen