Quotes About Protection

She stuffed Matt into a long-sleeved shirt and trousers and gave him a pair of rubber sandals to wear.

Matt kept himself from shining the flashlight on him.

Fortresses may or may not be useful according to the times; if they do good in one way, they do harm in another.

It was better to take a chance on the devil she didn't know than to leave herself completely unprotected against the man who (despite his recent assurances of devotion) had made it his business to torment her in the past.

Oh, claro Vietnam, si cae la bomba sobre el mar lleva tu árbol y tu escudo hasta la puerta del país. Ciérrala firme. (de En El País de Vietnam)

We give them the fire insurance salvation pitch, and they buy into it, and then we protect them in here so that none of us has to see what's going on outside the gates. We're in here worshipping a Jesus we've made up, while most of the souls out there, right out there, are crying out for a Jesus that really exists.

MATTHEW'S RULES OF SURVIVAL 1. Sometimes, the people who mean you harm are the ones who say they love you. 2. Fear is your friend. When you feel it, act. 3. Protect the little ones. 4. If you coped before, you can cope now. 5. Always remember: In the end, the survivor gets to tell the story.

The universal experience of living through a great shock is the feeling of being completely powerless: in the face of awesome forces, parents lose their ability to save their children, spouses are separated, homes - places of protection - become death traps. The best way to recover from helplessness turns out to be helping - having the right to be part of a communal recovery.

Global reinsurance companies are making billions in profits, in part by selling new kinds of protection schemes to developing countries that have done almost nothing to create the climate crisis, but whose infrastructure is intensely vulnerable to its impacts.8

There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That is what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away.

She was safe for another moment, one more moment, and all of life was only moments, after all.

That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away.

No; they nearly drowned you, and not even on purpose but only through carelessness. I am not letting them have you back," Temeraire said.

There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That is what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away.

I reached out my hands to them, suddenly: I put out my hand to Sergey on one side, and to Stepon on the other, and they put out their hands to me, and to each other, and we held tight, tight; we made a circle together, my brothers and me, around the food that we had been given, and there was no wolf in the room.

It's always mattered a lot to me to keep a wall up round my dignity, even though dignity matters fuck-all when the monsters under your bed are real.

In Sapienta Umbraculum — in Wisdom, Shelter

There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That it what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away. And if there has been food in my house for you, then I am glad, glad with all my heart. I hope there will always be.

I wasn't going through. I wasn't going through until everyone was out.

I didn't want her to need to do things like that. I didn't want her to need a sword.

My darling girl, I love you, have courage, my mother wrote, and keep far away from Orion Lake.

And they didn't stop at safety, either. They wanted comfort, and then they wanted luxury, and then they wanted excess, and every step of the way they still wanted to be safe, even as they made themselves more and more of a tempting target, and the only way they could stay safe was to have enough power to keep everyone off that wanted what they had.

You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away.

Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley.