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Quotes About Protection

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!
~ Lewis Black
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
~ William Penn
When security comes, every man for himself
~ Si Robertson
It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.
~ Charles Hodge
Kids who are obsessed with locks frequently turn into adults who are obsessed with crypto.
~ Neal Stephenson
The suit's got a cervical airbag that blows up when you fall off the board, so you can bounce on your head. Besides, helmets feel weird. They say it doesn't affect your hearing, but it does.
~ Neal Stephenson
A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest.
~ Neal Stephenson
Fearless for oneself, fear for others—that must be what it means to be a hero.
~ Neal Stephenson
The padlocks are carried away in pomp and laid out on the stone bench where important men make it their business to keep an eye on them.
~ Neal Stephenson
These are one-time pads.
~ Neal Stephenson
Only because Rachel knows him," I said. "Being a den-mother to wayward witches is not in my job description, and I will not play along if it requires armed men in my living room.
~ Neal Stephenson
She's in shock. Keep her head low and her legs high
~ Neal Stephenson
Carl Hollywood was appalled to realize that the only thing now standing between them and their three-decade march to the banks of the Huang Pu was Carl Hollywood, his .44, and a handful of lightly armed civilians.
~ Neal Stephenson
He finds it shocking that in a country actively embroiled in the middle of the greatest war in history—in a country run by belligerent Fascists for God's sake—two truckloads of heavily armed enemy soldiers can just drive around freely, protected by nothing except a couple of five-dollar tarps. Criminy! What kind of a sorry operation is this?
~ Neal Stephenson
protects like a stack of telephone books.
~ Neal Stephenson
He has an important job: Protect the yard. Sometimes people come in and out of the yard. Most of the time, they are good people, and he doesn't bother them. He doesn't know why they are good people. He just knows it. Sometimes they are bad people, and he has to do bad things to them to make them go away. This is fitting and proper.
~ Neal Stephenson
Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep If I die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Originally, governments had very limited functions. Their purpose was simply to "preserve and protect." Then someone added "provide." When governments began to be the people's provider as well as the people's protector, governments started creating society, rather than preserving it.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Then, again gradually, Gods were given larger roles. The need for protection, for strength, began to supplant the need for wisdom and love. A new kind of love was born in these mythologies. A love which protects with brute force. But it was a love which also covets what it protects; which was jealous of its Goddesses; which now did not simply serve their feminine lusts, but fought and died for them.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Jupiter acts as a gravitational shield for Earth, a burly big brother, allowing long (hundred-million-year) stretches of relative peace and quiet on Earth. Without Jupiter's protection, complex life would have a hard time becoming interestingly complex, always living at risk of extinction from a devastating impact.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Because I wanted to save women when mean people were trying to harm them.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
THE CLOUD-CRADLE This little baby was given life. Prayers were sung to make him strong. Then his mother asked the rain gods To look after him, his whole life long. Then she set him in a cloud-cradle, So that nothing could go wrong. Safe as the sky in a cradle of clouds, While mother watches and sings this song. Acoma
~ Neil Philip
It's between weak guys and strong guys. Women are drawn to men who demonstrate strength—not necessarily physical strength, but the ability to make them feel safe. So if you're a nice guy, you can still be nice. But you must also be strong.
~ Neil Strauss