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Quotes About Protection

If you think i'm letting little red riding hood go into the big bad woods of the east village by herself, you're nuts.'He took hold of my arm and swung me around. 'For one thing, I still owe you eternal servitude for saving my life, remember? And for another, the subway station's that way, stupid.Let's go.
~ Meg Cabot
There is only one rule about violence. Do whatever you must do to make it stop.
~ Megan Lindholm
I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Keeping a private guard this large is like using a wolf to guard the farm. It may keep off the other wolves, but sooner or later it will eat you.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
But the queen thinks only of her country. She will stop at nothing to find the scrolls, for they are the key to her family's protection . . . and her country's salvation.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Then he said that he might call child services if Mom or Dad couldn't keep watch over me. The specific words he used were child endangerment.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Though emotion roughened his voice, he spoke quietly. This was only for her. I am your sword and your shield. I am your wolf and your steed. Mountains will tremble at my approach, for they know I will tear them apart if they stand between us. But you need not be afraid, Zenobia Fox, because my heart is iron and my will is steel, and before the new moon rises, I will come for you ... He kissed her and as he pulled away, he wasn't leaving her. It was just the first step back to her side.
~ Meljean Brook
If ever you need it, I will level mountains to give you a desk. Even if an army is at our door, I'll hold them off until your ink runs dry.
~ Meljean Brook
I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.
~ Melody Beattie
We're so careful to see that no one gets hurt. No one, that is, but ourselves.
~ Melody Beattie
they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.
~ Melody Beattie
Sometimes, the things we do to protect ourselves turn on us and hurt us. They become self-destructive. Many codependents are barely surviving, and most aren't getting their needs met. As counselor Scott Egleston says, codependency is a way of getting needs met that doesn't get needs met. We've been doing the wrong things for the right reasons.
~ Melody Beattie
Denial is the shock absorber for the soul. It is an instinctive and natural reaction to pain, loss and change. It protects us, It wards off the blows of the life until we can gather our other coping resources.
~ Melody Beattie
Anyone who thought this would be a weak point in the manor's defenses would have a rude surprise, shortly before coming down with a serious case of death.
~ Mercedes Lackey
So her safe little world would never be safe again... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Kabul edilebilir tek savaÅŸ, kendini savunmak için yap?land?r ve her türlü savaÅŸta en büyük bedeli ödeyen masumlard?r
~ Mercedes Lackey
Weapons master is giving me special lessons. she (Amily) chuckled. He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Three things trust and cherish well— The horse on which you ride, The beast that guards and watches And your sister at your side!
~ Mercedes Lackey
And don't even suggest that these would be better off in Tiercel's hands. No, Tiercel has other things to do with his life. You, on the other hand, get to protect him. And guess what that makes you? Stupid? Harrier suggested. Suicidal? A Knight-Mage! the unicorn cried cheerfully.
~ Mercedes Lackey
When we trust Him, no power on earth can touch us unless it is God's will.
~ Merlin R. Carothers
The battle isn't ours; it is God's. While we praise Him, He sends our enemies scurrying.
~ Merlin R. Carothers
I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life); to the strength and power that emerges from sustained resistance and the profound conviction that these forces can be healing, can protect us from dehumanization and despair.
~ bell hooks
Women who were lesbians, of all races and classes, were at the forefront of the radicalization of contemporary female resistance to patriarchy in part because this group had their sexual preference already placed themselves outside the domain of heterosexist privilege and protection, both in the home and in the workplace. No matter their class, they were social outcasts.
~ bell hooks
What we as women need to ask ourselves is: In what context within patriarchy do women create space where we can protect our genius? It's a very, very difficult question.
~ bell hooks