Quotes About Protection

But to be most effective, the faces of the children would need to be painted in a blur, the way all children's faces truly are. For they blur as they run; they blur as they grow and change so fast; and they blur to keep us from loving them too deeply, for their protection, and also for ours.

It would have made a nice painting, were someone to choose something as lowly as that to study. Another story, a story written in oils rather than one painted on porcelain. But to be most effective, the faces of the children would need to be painted in a blur, the way all children's faces truly are. For they blur as they run; they blur as they grow and change so fast; and they blur to keep us from loving them too deeply, for their protection, and also for ours.

a blur, the way all children's faces truly are. For they blur as they run; they blur as they grow and change so fast; and they blur to keep us from loving them too deeply, for their protection, and also for ours.

She hobbled away into the dark, saying her prayers aloud. Old saint Nicholas, young saint Mark Keep me safe in the pesky dark Saint Olga of the hight Himalayas Send me a set of cashmere pajamas.

Never underestimate the value of a mother in wartime. She has the most to fight for.

As one Questioner pointed out, 'The Rebels' best asset is their voice of dissent. We shouldn't try to school it out of them, or to corporate-culture it out, or shame it out. It's there to protect us all.

I live absolutely like an oyster.

Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos.

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.

When you can hear a spider walk across the floor, you know it's time to keep your socks on. Thank God for insecticide.

Dearest Lord Jesus, keep me from sin, protect me from evil, and bring peace within.

In a sense, economic power could bring governments to heel because they had the same faith in economics as the plain businessmen who had somehow convinced them that the state's means of violence had to be used exclusively for protection of business interests and national property.

We had the whole population against us," Jews hidden by Christian families could "be counted on the fingers of one hand," perhaps five or six out of a total of thirteen thousand—but on the whole the situation had, surprisingly, been better in Poland than in any other Eastern European country.

Wo alle schuldig sind, ist es keiner; gegen die Entdeckung der wirklich Schuldigen und Verantwortlichen, die Mißstände abstellen könnten, gibt es keinen besseren Schutz als kollektive Schuldbekenntnisse

He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.

as the centre of a thick wood. In this snug retreat sat a duck on her nest, watching for her young brood to hatch;

No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my files, but nowhere is there one like this. The state is the result of aggressive force and subjugation. It has evolved without contractual foundation, just like a gang of protection racketeers. And concerning the struggle of all against all: that is a myth.

if the power of government rests on the widespread acceptance of false indeed absurd and foolish ideas, then the only genuine protection is the systematic attack of these ideas and the propagation and proliferation of true ones.

We humans can't see straight. We are always biased. We always protect our own interests.

Children view their parents as both intrepid and omnipotent.

Maya had one of those sudden "pow" moments sneak up on her, the ones all parents experience, when you are simply overwhelmed by your love for your child, when you are awestruck and you can feel something rising inside of you and you just want to hold onto it and yet, at the same time, that caring, that fear of losing this person, scares you into near paralysis. How, you wonder, will you ever relax again, knowing how unsafe the world is? Lily

I look at the helpless bundle in the crib and she looks up at me and I wonder what I would not do to protect her. I would lay down my life in a second. And truth be told, if push came to shove, I would lay down yours too.

We started for the door when Agent called out, "Mickey?" I turned. "You, like Ema, have a pure spirit. You have blessed energy centers and true balance. You are a protector. You look out for others. You are their shelter." "Uh