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Quotes About Protection

The private security industry feeds on itself, creating the conditions for its own growth. As unemployment rises, there's more work to be done protecting the increasingly conglomerated wealth. As guns in private hands proliferate, things happen. Blame it on gangs, and there's an argument for even more private security.
~ Trevor Paglen
Even in the era that we think of as the "good old days" children were never truly safe. Monsters walked among us, even then. In this case, though, the monster in question was not an adult that preyed on a child, it was what the
~ Troy Taylor
They won't catch you," he told her. "And even if they do, I'll get you back. I promise you that.
~ Trudi Canavan
He had always believed that robes and swords did not go together well. There were already too many ways a magician could harm another person. Why add a non-magical one to the list?
~ Trudi Canavan
The loved ones of a Thief are never safe. - Cery
~ Trudi Canavan
Teil on vägi, millega end kaitsta, seega pole tapmisele ainsatki vabandust, ükskõik, mida teie ründaja ka ei kavatseks — isegi kui ründaja on võlur.»
~ Trudi Canavan
within two miles of the fort with a respectable abatis
~ Ulysses S. Grant
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
~ Umberto Eco
a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices, the majority of them would no longer exist. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth.
~ Umberto Eco
El sabio debe velar de alguna manera los secretos que descubre, para evitar que otros hagan mal uso de ellos.
~ Umberto Eco
ÇoÄŸu kez, bilimadam?, büyülü olmayan kitaplar? sayg?s?z gözlerden korumak için büyülü göstermelidir.
~ Umberto Eco
So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth.
~ Umberto Eco
Do not fear the darkness; it does not threaten, but protects us.
~ Umberto Eco
If the day ever comes that it (Deep Space Nine) isn't safe for kids to run around this station we all need to pack up and go home.
~ Una McCormack
The eloquent senator was explaining the system of protection; an ingenious device whereby the workingman permitted the manufacturer to charge him higher prices, in order that he might receive higher wages; thus taking his money out of his pocket with one hand, and putting a part of it back with the other. To the senator this unique arrangement had somehow become identified with the higher verities of the universe. It
~ Upton Sinclair
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
~ Uta Hagen
They think of policemen as they do of Labradors – noble, loyal, good with children, man's protector and friend. In
~ Val McDermid
Only later we learned that by fainting Peter was protecting himself from the awareness of his wish that the mother of his early childhood would die.
~ Vam?k D. Volkan
When you were a child, you used to run to me for protection. Now, in moments of weakness, I want to hide my head on your knees; I want you to be strong and wise; I want you to protect and defend me. I'm not always strong in spirit, Vitya – I can be weak too. I often think about suicide, but something holds me back – some weakness, or strength, or irrational hope.
~ Vasily Grossman
Nor was combat fatal to most combatants; annihilation of entire armies was rare in the classical age, as the nearly uniform adoption of the panoply—the Greeks' bronze breastplate, shield, helmet, greaves, spear, and sword—ensured protection from repeated attacks.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.
~ Victor Hugo
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
~ Victor Hugo
The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
~ Victor Hugo
Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui custodiunt eam, Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch who guard it.
~ Victor Hugo