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Quotes About Protection

So, what it's like, Terry? Being a father. ... It's like having a gun to your head all the time. Because I know if anything happens to her, anything, then my life is over.
~ Michael Connelly
You don't like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.
~ Michael Connelly
The citizens want their police to protect them, to keep the plague from their eyes, from their doors. But those same John Q.'s are the first to stare wide-eyed and point the finger of outrage when they see close up exactly what the job they've given the cops entails.
~ Michael Connelly
Sir, I can't talk to you without a mask," Moore said loudly. "Go get a mask.
~ Michael Connelly
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.' Tom Jefferson rescinded those laws as soon as he became president.
~ Michael Connelly
But before I left," Rider continued, "I learned enough to know that most often sexual abuse of children comes from inside the family, relatives or close friends. The boogey monsters who climb through the window and abduct are few and far between.
~ Michael Connelly
But the innocence of a child will bring you back and give you the shield of joy with which to protect yourself.
~ Michael Connelly
Smith & Wesson 9mm—satin finished, stainless steel and loaded with eight rounds of XTPs.
~ Michael Connelly
the security and transport of the
~ Michael Connelly
the best defense was a good lock or a mean dog. Or both.
~ Michael Connelly
luck could be a fleeting thing. It had to be earned and then guarded with everything you had.
~ Michael Connelly
Actually, I wanted to take care of Terry. Yes, he had the potential of becoming a stone in my shoe. But I—" "Shut up, Bob!" Rachel yelled. "You couldn't carry Terry's lunch. Harry, this is too dangerous. Put him down! Do it now!
~ Michael Connelly
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.
~ Michael Connelly
The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.
~ Michael Crichton
for the door to the house had many bolts, locks, bars, and fasteners, as is common in the dwellings of misers.
~ Michael Crichton
The computer system is secure.
~ Michael Crichton
Sleep with your guns tonight, boys.
~ Michael Crichton
In the modern world, it's a much more serious transgression to shoot a tiger than to shoot your parents. Tigers have advocates.
~ Michael Crichton
CivilizaÈ›ia nu ne ÎNDEPÄ'RTEAZÄ' de natur?. CivilizaÈ›ia ne PROTEJEAZÄ' de natur?.
~ Michael Crichton
This disaster was caused by environmentalists charged with protecting the wilderness, who made one dreadful mistake after another—and, along the way, proved how little they understood the environment they intended to protect.
~ Michael Crichton
civilization doesn't separate us from nature, Ted. Civilization protects us from nature. Because
~ Michael Crichton
This is why senolytics is so promising: It works by getting rid of these hooligan cells that turn healthy cells to the dark side.
~ Michael F. Roizen
Yes, well, irony is no protection when you can feel the breeze from his scythe on your skin and hear the rustle of his wings.
~ Michael Gruber
At night we turned all the lights in every room of our house on. We turned the lights on the front porch on. We turned the lights on the back porch and over the garage on too. We wanted to keep the darkness that surrounded our house and us as far away from us as we could.
~ Michael Kimball