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Quotes About Protection

God gave it to me. Woe to him who touches it.
~ Unknown
One night he had shared his quarters with a wounded drummer boy, protecting the child from cold.
~ Unknown
Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Car si elle n'avait jamais agi ainsi consciemment, elle se rendait bien compte qu'une femme pouvait confondre amour et pitié, et s'attacher à un homme dans l'espoir de le sauver. Ou qu'elle pouvait y voir comme un défi, persuadée qu'elle et elle seule pourrait le secourir, le protéger et le rendre heureux.
~ Nicholas Evans
It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
~ Nicholas Sparks
To want your child to remain innocent whilst toughening up enough to survive This Life is entirely contradictory, but, as far as I can tell, an almost-universal parental desire. It
~ Unknown
My relationship with my muse is a delicate one at the best of times and I feel that it is my duty to protect her from influences that may offend her fragile nature. She comes to me with the gift of song and in return I treat her with the respect I feel she deserves — in this case this means not subjecting her to the indignities of judgement and competition.
~ Nick Cave
What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100 000.
~ Nick Clooney
At the most basic level of protecting a writer's personal safety, democratic countries offer a further advantage. If you steal hundreds of thousands of documents from the Russian state and put them online, the FSB will try to kill you. Steal American secrets, and the CIA will not.
~ Nick Cohen
Sensible countries should treat banks as if they were hostile foreign powers, and enable, protect and honour those who reveal the threats they pose to wider society.
~ Nick Cohen
The editor of a Danish newspaper wonders why comedians, who boast of their willingness to 'transgress boundaries' and 'speak truth to power', will mock Jesus but not Muhammad. He invites Danish cartoonists to satirise the Prophet. Most respond by satirising the editor. It makes no difference. They still have to spend the rest of their lives under police protection.
~ Nick Cohen
The cops, however, took his satire on the chin and went on to guard him from assassins.
~ Nick Cohen
If there is something you want to protect, attack it with measured vigour yourself, thus investing it with replenished force, and pre-empting its annihilation.
~ Unknown
You were protecting yourself. You wrapped yourself in armor and pretended to be invulnerable. Growing up inside that armor twisted you a bit out of true, but it doesn't matter. The essentials are all there." She searched my face. "The armor's getting too small, Aud. You have to choose.
~ Nicola Griffith
Power and ambition were two edges of the same sword, as she knew herself. She wanted to be powerful so she could protect her people; she had people because she was powerful. And there were different kinds of power: the still, pent power of the seer; the free, raging power of the butcher-bird. But did there have to be only one path?
~ Nicola Griffith
Begu laughed, but it was a soft laugh, quite grown-up, and it made Hild long to hold her and shield her from the world.
~ Nicola Griffith
Marghe was perturbed by her sense of security in Aoife's presence, recognizing the feeling for what it was: the passing of responsibility for her personal safety from herself to Aoife. That scared her almost as much as Uaithne had.
~ Nicola Griffith
It would be so easy-my right hand on his right wrist, pull and step, left arm across his throat, whirl and spread my arms, like a dance, and he would drop spine-down over my thigh, snap: less than three seconds, start to finish-but a broken boy would help nothing.
~ Nicola Griffith
Partnerships should be equal. You can protect her, yes, but shouldn't she also be able to protect you?
~ Nicola Griffith
That lass is yours. Protect her.
~ Nicola Griffith
She was glad to be alone, to be free, to be high above the world, where she could see everything coming. She had people to protect.
~ Nicola Griffith
The child would wake in the night to her mother's dream cries-a man coming to steal her, steal her child, steal her payment-and her mother would not eat, only hunch over the bowel and scry, and follow the girl about with haunted eyes.
~ Nicola Griffith
Showing off her best points was a habit that saved her life more than once.
~ Nicola Griffith
Her tenderness was unbearable. She was nine years old. She knew how to kiss me better: a simple thing, but one I could never have taught her. And I had come here to save her.
~ Nicola Griffith