Quotes About Protection

bio-safety rules were ten times as strict, or supposed to be. Maybe plutonium was bad, but it couldn't jump out of a tank and grow by itself.

Ruben liked the shadows. They kept him safe.

Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy his need for protection and love by curling himself up into a trembling ball, he could not rid himself of the feeling of loneliness and homelessness.

Grace is never out of view. Grace secures our relationship with God despite our sin. Grace maintains our forgiveness despite the inadequacies of our repentance. Grace filters the consequences of sin in order to protect us from spiritual harm. When this grace captures our hearts, it compels us to love and serve the God who provides its lavish, loving, and lasting provisions.

If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.

Guns have no eyes, no friends. You never know if they'll protect your life or take it.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Some places have religion. Here we have safety drills.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe.

Oh, thou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness, have mercy on this small black boy down here; preserve him from all men that have no bowels to feel fear!

Besides, let's face it, a joint mortgage is for twenty-five years. And unlike with a marriage, you can get insurance to cover yourself if something goes wrong.

rejection is usually God's protection.

One omen is best; Defending the fatherland

Aphrodite forever stands by her man and drives the spirits of death away from him.

His mother then, Wailing, sobbing, laid open her bosom And holding out a breast spoke through her tears: Hector, my child, if ever I've soothed you With this breast, remember it now, son, and Have pity on me. Don't pit yourself Against that madman. Come inside the wall. If Achilles kills you I will never Get to mourn you laid out on a bier, O My sweet blossom, nor will Andromache, Your beautiful wife, but far from us both Dogs will eat your body by the Greek ships.

never yet have they driven off my cattle, or my horses, nor ever in Phthia, where the rich earth breeds warriors have they destroyed my harvest

to avoid death he shrank into the host of his own companions.

he strode among the champions in fear for the shepherd of the people, lest he be hurt, and all their labor slip away into nothing.

And here, take my veil and put it round your chest; it is enchanted, and you can come to no harm so long as you wear it. (Calypso)

Good preservation is a life preserver thrown to us in a shipwreck. Good preservation keeps us in touch with the graces of this life. It's bricks and mortar, yes. It's arguments about true colors and authenticity and representation. But true preservation is like the hand that shelters a fire from the wind. It protects the spark of life. -- Howard Mansfield, The Same Ax, Twice

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. . . . The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

Very soon after the Fourteenth Amendment became law, the Supreme Court began to demolish it as a protection for blacks, and to develop it as a protection for corporations.