Quotes About Protection

I spent my whole life protecting you and for what? So you could play Twister with your girlfriend while I'm the Freak of the Week?!

I have no way to defend my borders but to expand them,

locked in self-preservation ("I am threatened and must do anything I can to survive")

Too often, what we want is the stuff of God. We want protection. We want his provision. We want to be defended when we're dishonored. We want to be helped when we serve. We want what God can bring us, but do we really want him?

1. the belt of truth 2. the breastplate of righteousness 3. the shoes of peace 4. the shield of faith 5. the helmet of salvation 6. the sword of the Spirit

A man with a rifle is a citizen; a man without one is merely a subject.

Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.

The main body of Vikings were given lands in the Seine basin in exchange for protecting Paris. They settled into northern France and within a century were speaking a dialect of French and became known as the Normans.

To live protected within any version of a gated community diminishes me; it is an affront to my dignity as a person. It is to live as a parasite, and so clothes my everyday living in structural violence.

It is ironic but nonetheless true that for developing countries the best way to protect against the future effects of climate change is currently to burn more fossil fuels and thereby accelerate their economic development.

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

It is essential, therefore, that in republican government, representatives avoid efforts intended to change the general spirit of the nation—that is, the legislator must help preserve and protect society, not eradicate it.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."6

Circles are tightly knit groups of wraiths that have banded together for mutual defense against slavers and Spectres. The cirlce is a fundamental unit of Shadowlands wraith society. In many ways, a wraith's circle takes the place of family.

Sometimes you become so focused on protecting people from danger that you become the danger.

Every human has that basic, God-given right, Pino, and you feared for your life.

Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

Wit is the only wallBetween us and the dark.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

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

I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.