Quotes About Shielding

The others were trying to spare you from pain. The truth can be devastating. We spend much of our lives protecting ourselves from it and shielding others as well. We use lies to take the edge off life. We dream of a better tomorrow. We hide from our regrets and inadequacies. We try to exaggerate the good and downplay the bad. We even mange to hide from the inescapable reality that sooner or later we and everyone we love is going to die.

This forced you to look again at the people who raised them, coddling them with praise and trying to shield them from the grim sides of life, which might well have created children who, as adults, appeared highly confident, competent and positive but at the hint of darkness or negativity often became paralyzed and unable to react except with disbelief and tears—You just victimized me!—and retreated, in effect, into their childhood bubbles.

I expect leaders to buffer their people from all the political and bureaucratic insanity, not throw them into it.

There is a delicate balance between shielding people and encouraging them, and the USA perhaps went too far in one direction and Australia in the other. The Soviet Union, born in 1917 and influenced a little by the exciting Australian and New Zealand experiments, would eventually show how the umbrella, if too big and cumbersome, exposed people far more than it protected them.

He'd thrown his arm in front of her to shield her from the crash. What a dirty move. That bastard.

standing guard.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used against you

Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

She had the strangest need, almost a compulsion, to shield Ricco from his brother's scrutiny. From all of them. She sensed he detested appearing weak in front of anyone, but especially his family.

Some of us need more protection than others.

Also, I am sure Aren was a way for him to protect himself

Linni, you have as many answers as you need or are likely to get. Don't ask for more. I learned in the Great War that there are many battles to be fought, and one of the biggest is with the veils that come down around us—with all due respect to that American author, you know, Mr. Steinbeck, I call them the 'drapes of wrath.' They both hide the truth and shield us from the danger behind them.

In my opinion, it is important to have a stable defence.

There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

To protect your investment. It

He had spoken himself into boldness. Stephen, shielding the gaping wounds which the words had left in his heart, said very coldly: --I am not thinking of the offence to my mother.

Of course, you need protecting.

Laser cooling opened a new route to ultralow temperature physics. Laser cooling experiments, with room temperature vacuum chambers and easy optical access, look very different from cryogenic cells with multi-layer thermal shielding around them.

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.