Quotes About Protection

Words that explained the world to her, its dark side and its light side, words that built a wall to keep out bad dreams.

Por ansiar tanto pela proteção dele, talvez a mãe tenha confundido a fúria sanguinária com autoridade, e a brutalidade com força.

The important thing about security systems isn't how they work, it's how they fail.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

Anytime someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you and doesn't give you a key, that lock is not there for your benefit.

Any time you had a cipher, you were vulnerable to someone smarter than you coming up with a way of breaking it.

Trading privacy for security is stupid enough; not getting any actual security in the bargain is even more stupid.

It was considered insanely hard to poison a computer's BIOS remotely, but if I was going to rebuild a computer that had been fatally pwned, ignoring the BIOS would be like changing all your house locks after losing your keys but leaving all the windows unlocked.

He had lots of guns, but you can't shoot germs.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

I should protect and cherish the young, the old, and the infirm, because at some point I would be all of these things before my own journey ended.

If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.

Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.

Sometimes, when I lie awake at night," said Wish, with big eyes, "I think I can hear, beyond the Wall, the sound of giants howling, as if they're being attacked by Witches… Don't you hear that, Bodkin? Are we supposed to just stay here, safe behind our Wall, and let that carry on?

She's a queen and a mother and it's a mother's job to be scary," said Wish. "Well she's very successful at her job," shivered Bodkin.

When a young rabbit spots a hawk circling above, it may never have seen such a creature before- but there is some ancestral memory that tells it to be afraid, to leap in great, panicky bounds to the safety of the burrow

You think civilization is some horrible, polluting human invention that separates us from the state of nature. But civilization doesn't separate us from nature. Civilization protects us from nature.

It took another time, more waves rolling up, to understand that he had no idea what it would be like to live without fear at his elbow, warning him, keeping him safe, keeping him frightened.

And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.

That was all her prayer—not for his soul or his righteousness, but that he might not be wasted. And while he slept, for hours and hours, she thought and prayed for him.

He could only say the one thing he was afraid to say: Will you hide in my house, master?

As one person always said Good things come to those who wait. You don't have to be connivingly sneaky and passing judgement if one don't use protection, so you can have your fantasies. If you do others right, the lord will bless right judgements and knowledge.

Sarcasm is a suit of armor.

All the dead bolts and pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.