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Quotes About Protection

Noel, I want you to see if you can get me paternity insurance," he said not long after Edward's troubles. "Paternity insurance? David, I don't think there is such a thing." "Well, there should be. Look into it. I need to protect my penis.
~ Unknown
We were each other's armor. And in that moment, we each became the other's lance, sword, and shield.
~ Unknown
When I saw her... my heart skipped a beat. Her expression was as open and trusting as that of a young child. Such purity is something never, ever seen at the court. Hieraglion is a mire of intrigue and deceit... yet there she was-- a simple, beautiful wildflower blooming in its midst. I wanted to protect her. Myself. With my own two hands.
~ Unknown
I don't want to lose anyone else I care about... for reasons I don't understand! I swore to myself I would do whatever necessary to prevent that from ever happening again!
~ Unknown
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
~ Norm Dicks
Living in the second half of the twentieth century, I realized, confers no automatic protection against unwise or even dangerous drugs and methods. Each age has had to undergo its own special nostrums. (Chapter 1)
~ Norman Cousins
Protection," John Stuart Mill wrote, "against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling.
~ Unknown
The raft was seized, with a noise like needles knitting, and we were hemmed in for winter -- river and the old channel's oxbow lake having frozen solid. By now, we guessed we were not two ordinary river travelers...it must have been the river that was extraordinary: a marvel that protected us by the same mysterious action that had given a common horse wings and changed a woman into a laurel tree.
~ Norman Lock
The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and criminogenic.
~ Unknown
Entonces triunfará María, Madre de Dios (a la que Nostradamus indica como una curiosa perífrasis, siendo «maría» el plural del nombre latino «mare»), de la cual se ha dicho que «las puertas del Infierno no prevalecerán contra ella».
~ Nostradamus
Encerrar el amor en un círculo, condenándolo a vivir en una cárcel eterna, no servirá para protegerlo de los cambios y las metamorfosis que caracterizan las cosas humanas
~ Unknown
Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Remembering wasn't safe. You could lose your mind, remembering.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The police," my father told them, "may be able to avenge you, but they can't protect you.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Dad tries to shield us from what goes on in the world, but he can't. Knowing that, he also tries to teach us to shield ourselves.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The police,' my father told them, 'may be able to avenge you, but they can't protect you.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Nehemiah, chapter four, Verse 14: "And I looked and rose up and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, be not afraid of them: remember the Lord which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives and your houses." Interesting. Interesting that Dad had that verse ready, and that Cory recognized it. Maybe they've had this conversation before.
~ Octavia E. Butler
What are guards but villagers doing a tiresome, temporary duty?
~ Octavia E. Butler
That way they don't have to risk going outside where things are so dangerous and crazy. It's bad enough that some people—my father for one—have to go out to work at least once a week. None of us goes out to school any more. Adults get nervous about kids going outside.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I couldn't move her. She was afraid, and that made her defensive.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than let them know just how easy it is to hurt me.
~ Octavia E. Butler
What does it mean if you're damned lucky to live in a cul-de-sac with a wall around it?
~ Octavia E. Butler
Crazy to live without a wall to protect you.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
~ Octavia E. Butler