Quotes About Protection

I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.

Truth is like a wild animal; let it loose and it will defend itself!

You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

Keeping the truth from the people closest to you is how you'll survive, and how you'll protect them if anything ever goes wrong.

Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it

The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary

He might fight under my badge, Bet'anya, but you're the only one he would die for.

Keeping secrets is a survival tactic.

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.The Brothers KaramazovMitya (Dmitri) to Aloysha who visits him in prison, Book XI - Ivan, Chapter 4 - A Hymn and a Secret.

F.O.I. protects the guilty, but not the innocent!

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.It's for their own good.

Please look after this bear.

PLEASE LOOK AFTER THIS BEAR. THANK YOU.

Keep your paws off my fiancèe, you flea-ridden stray!

Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.

She was always threatening rain; he had been born with an umbrella in his hand.

The new porch felt sound and solid under the weight of him. Like the rest of the house, it was not and would never be his property, but in those years his ambition was not to own a piece of the world. Just to keep that piece from falling down or burning up around him would suffice.

When she found herself alone in the house, she had a record of Highland reels and marches that she played very loud, because for unknown reasons the sound of bagpipes kept the creature at bay.

it's like the laws of physics—for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you. You then have to decide what to do with it. How to keep yourself safe from it. How to keep it from hollowing you out.

Everybody's got a cage that keeps out the sharks. Those who open the door and venture out do so at their own risk.

All his life Harry Bosch believed he had a mission. And to carry out that mission he needed to be bulletproof. He needed to build himself and his life so that he was invulnerable, so that nothing and no one could ever get to him. All of that changed on the day he was introduced to the daughter he didn't know he had. In that moment he knew he was both saved and lost. He would be forever connected to the world in the way only a father knew. - Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly

Walls within walls, Bosch thought. He wondered what the owners did with all of their space besides fearfully guard it.