Quotes About Shielding

Protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

She accumulates stuff to insulate herself from the world,

It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity.

Great care was taken at all times to protect me from reality. They'd met people like me before. They knew how little reality we can take.

FYI, there are basically only three things besides a vest that will stop a bullet: a tree trunk, the engine block of a car, and a U.S. mailbox: if you are ever caught in gunfire, find one of those.

Let me find the strength to do this, he said. And let me be strong enough to protect them from what's coming.

And as you are a very attractive woman, I want you protected.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

I liked protecting people and things. I liked figuring out smart ways to protect people and things. I liked being right.

I had my helmet plate opaqued, so I could wince a lot without any of them knowing.

He's built to protect, to shield, and they made him a killer.

Faith was really quite easy. One had only to yield. To ask no questions. The more weary, the more weak, she became, the easier it was. Her religion was to her a kind of protective coloring, shielding her from the cruel light of an unbearable reality.

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.

Very recently, economists have gained a better understanding of the structure of taboos. Their purpose is to protect a sense of identity by shielding people from evidence that might challenge it.2 Taboos save you from the need to cover your ears by constraining what is said.