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Quotes About Protection

I would give," he said, his voice rough, "everything I am to keep you from being hurt.
~ Faith Hunter
I didn't need protecting and men seemed to sense that. It bothered a lot of them.
~ Faith Hunter
You hurt her and I'll skin you alive and feed your carcass to the wild boars in the swamps. You copy?
~ Faith Hunter
Eli met us there and handed me my bag of weapons, one hand holding Bruiser back. I left the men there, but my hearing was better than human, and I heard Eli say, "You hurt her and I'll skin you alive and feed your carcass to the wild boars in the swamps. You copy?" "I do. And I'll break your arm if you ever accost me again. Civilized discourse is acceptable. Your hand upon my person is not.
~ Faith Hunter
We are grateful for safety. We are grateful for bounty. We are grateful for life. We are grateful for laughter. We are grateful for each other and for family and for clan. Amen.
~ Faith Hunter
It's a very lucrative field, you see. Keeping gangsters and corporate sharks out of jail.
~ Faith Martin
Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.
~ Fannie Flagg
She backed away from the boat. She started to flail in the mud, but before she could tumble backward, a set of strong arms braced around her. "I have you," Naveen said. He was so close she could feel his warm breath against her ear. Tiana did her best to ignore the goose bumps pebbling up and down her skin, but she would have had a better chance of ignoring a fireworks display taking place on her front porch.
~ Farrah Rochon
The insistence that somehow women are an endangered species that needs to be protected at all costs seems to me to be contrary to what's desirable for their view of themselves. And it just invests far more power in the male than is necessary.
~ Fay Weldon
A brave little woman,' said the vicar. 'So many of our women are now left alone.' And so they were. Those who in peacetime were expected to need male protection, in wartime were assumed to be able to manage perfectly well. And so they did.
~ Fay Weldon
Mary Fisher has built her tower around her, and cemented the stone with banknotes, and lined the walls inside with stolen love, but still she is not safe. She has a mother.
~ Fay Weldon
What a crock of bullshit, Decker thought. He felt guilty. Initially, she'd reacted with anger, which was healthy, and he'd quelled her fire. Now, she was internalizing the bad hand she'd been dealt. "Rina, none of this is your fault. And no one is after your kids. If they're out of the way
~ Faye Kellerman
This is our home, Detective Decker. At least until we all make it to the Holy Land. We were not intimidated by vandals. We will not be intimidated by rapists, thieves, or murderers. If the police can't adequately protect us, we will use our own means.
~ Faye Kellerman
animal sanctuary?
~ Faye Kellerman
La preocupación de los padres por sus hijos es, por naturaleza, mucho más fuerte que la de los hijos por los padres.
~ Federico Andahazi
Tacere e struggersi è il castigo più grande che ci possiamo infliggere. A che è servito a me l'orgoglio e non guardarti e farti stare sveglia notte dopo notte? A niente! È servito a buttarmi il fuoco addosso! Perché tu credi che il tempo guarisca e che i muri proteggano, e non è vero, non è vero. Quando le cose arrivano tanto in fondo, non c'è modo di sradicarle!
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Qué policía había que nos defendiera a nosotros cuando nos iban a matar? De haber habido, nos habrían detenido para extorsionarnos.Pero no, andaban extorsionando en el centro.
~ Fernando Vallejo
God cannot be everywhere at once. That is why He created mothers
~ Fiona McIntosh
Happy is the mother who can say sincerely, that she puts her child in God's hands, and knows therefore, that he is divinely protected.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
My eyes are God's eyes, perfect and flawless. The Light of the Christ floods my eyeballs and streams on my pathway. I see clearly there are no lions on my way, only angels and endless blessings.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Rejection is protection.
~ Florence Scovell Shinn
Now, legal plunder may be exercised in an infinite multitude of ways. Hence come an infinite multitude of plans for organization; tariffs, protection, perquisites, gratuities, encouragements, progressive taxation, free public education, right to work, right to profit, right to wages, right to assistance, right to instruments of labor, gratuity of credit, etc., etc. And it is all these plans, taken as a whole, with what they have in common, legal plunder, that takes the name of socialism.
~ Frederic Bastiat
legal plunder may be exercised in an infinite multitude of ways. Hence come an infinite multitude of plans for organization; tariffs, protection, perquisites, gratuities, encouragements, progressive taxation, free public education, right to work, right to profit, right to wages, right to assistance, right to instruments of labor, gratuity of credit, etc., etc. And it is all these plans, taken as a whole, with what they have in common, legal plunder, that takes the name of socialism.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Can the law -- which necessarily requires the use of force -- rationally be used for anything except protecting the rights of everyone? I defy anyone to extend it beyond this purpose without perverting it and, consequently, turning might against right.
~ Frederic Bastiat