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Quotes About Protection

I wrapped my arms around my chest. I'd read somewhere that that was an instinct left over from caveman days: protect your heart.
~ Wally Lamb
How do you keep your guys safe? Coles asked. By killing everything that ain't smiling, and half of everything that is, the marine captain answered.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Don't worry about people stealing an idea," he once told a student. "If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
~ Walter Isaacson
DNA doesn't do much work. It mainly stays at home in the nucleus of our cells, not venturing forth. Its primary activity is protecting the information it encodes and occasionally replicating itself.
~ Walter Isaacson
This wariness of authority reflected the most fundamental of all of Einstein's moral principles: Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and imagination to flourish. He had demonstrated this as an impertinent young thinker, and he proclaimed the principle clearly in 1931. "I believe that the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and to make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality," he said.69
~ Walter Isaacson
This distinction was very important to him: His mother did love him but not enough to save him.
~ Walter Mosley
No. What I wonder is why would you care?" "I'm a cop, LT. It's my job to protect the welfare of even garbage like you.
~ Walter Mosley
Chivalry!—why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection—the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant—Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.
~ Walter Scott
we resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us.
~ Walter Scott
Besides, when a man of talent shows himself an able and useful partisan, his party will continue to protect and accredit him, in spite of conduct the most contradictory to their own principles.
~ Walter Scott
Peace is an inestimable jewel; but it will be soon snatched from those who are not prepared with heart and hand to defend it.
~ Walter Scott
to be innocent of ill is no security ;
~ Walter Scott
No drone shall feed on my honeycomb.
~ Walter Scott
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
~ Walter Scott
In business, I look for economic castles protected by unreachable moats.
~ Warren Buffett
Love vanquishes all attackers, it is impregnable in defense. When heaven wants to protect someone, does it send an army? No, it protects him with love.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
See that you don't look down on one of these little ones, because I tell you that in heaven their angels continually view the face of My Father in heaven" (Matthew 18:10).
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Our Universe is created out of love, kindness, peace, and well-being, so when we're an energetic match to this awareness and refuse to live in fear, we'll attract the protection and guidance we desire.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
have a "senior partner" who's never abandoned me and who's stuck with me even in moments when I had seemingly deserted my Source. I feel that if the universal mind has enough respect to allow me to come here and to work through me—and to protect me in times when I strayed onto dangerous nonspiritual turf—then this partnership deserves my reciprocal respect.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
I'd way rather defend myself against a man with a stick than a social worker with good intentions.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
If you carry a weapon, it is always to kill. Do not think it is to defend yourself. If you draw your weapon, never get closer than three meters to the person you want to kill,
~ Charles Kaiser
Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.
~ Charles Krauthammer
For the Europeans there really is a peace dividend, because we provide the peace. They can afford social democracy without the capacity to defend themselves because they can always depend on the United States. So why not us as well? Because what for Europe is decadence--decline, in both comfort and relative safety--is for us mere denial. Europe can eat, drink and be merry for America protects her. But for America it's different. If we choose the life of ease, who stands guard for us?
~ Charles Krauthammer
"Safety First" is "Safety Always."
~ Charles M. Hayes