Quotes of: Protect Keyword

The fact that she was still alive felt wrong, out of balance. She didn't feel special, or protected, or gods-bound. She thought the gods had acted to protect the roan, and she had just been along for the ride. It was the roan who was special, not she...

Blood Ties

Most people, by the time they get old, have grown tough little shells around their hearts. Babies, like little Laila, start off with tender, loving, trusting hearts, but gradually, gradually, they learn to protect themselves and, as the years go by, ...

Artichoke Hearts

My name is Ashallyn'darkmyr Tallyn, third son of the Unseelie Court...Let it be known--from this day forth, I vow to protect Meghan Chase, daughter of the Summer King, with my sword, my honor, and my life. Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. S...

The Iron Queen

They are talking like fools. They are saying that two and two make nothing. They are saying that a man will have to die to in order to protect his life. If you agree to fight you agree to die. Now if you die to protect your life you aren't alive anyh...

Johnny Got His Gun

One of the most ugly aspects of life in Communist China during the Mao Zedong era was the Party’s demand that people inform on each other routinely and denounce each other during political campaigns. This practice had a profoundly destructive effec...

Life and Death in Shanghai

The job of the politician is to speak for all people; not just for parties with vested interests, or organisations with the biggest wallets. The first people a politician should protect are those that cannot protect themselves: Those weakest and most...

The Year of the Badgers

What makes anyone think that government officials are even trying to protect us? A government is not analogous to a hired security guard. Governments do not come into existence as social service organizations or as private firms seeking to please con...

Robert Higgs

If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will protect upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually c...

Elizabeth Gilbert

M: Regret is not part of our profession. Raoul Silva: They kept me for five months in a room with no air. They tortured me, and I protected your secrets. I protected you. But they made me suffer. And suffer. And suffer. Until I realized, it was you w...

Skyfall

Simple answers to the most difficult questions: 1. Why do humans find it difficult to express themselves? To relate to the movies and books, later. 2. Why do humans make everything look so big, beautiful & complicated? Ego feels good. 3. Why do human...

Saurabh Sharma

Marriage [is] not just a bond between two people but a bond between those two people and their forebears, their children, and their neighbors... Lovers must not . . . live for themselves alone. . . . They say their vows to the community as much as to...

Wendell Berry

She closed her eyes and prayed to whichever small ineffectual god protects the hearts of women.

City of Darkness

Do you not think that God will protect us?” “No,” he said flatly. “My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.

Changeling

There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.

In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer

I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her.

Elixir

over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it

Elven Star

He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.

Froi of the Exiles

People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers...strangers are always at risk.

Fall of Night

The box of Amish life and culture might provide some protection, but it could never bring salvation.

Growing Up Amish

Dragons didn’t fool around when it came to protecting things that they acquired—be it gold, gems, or a monster’s body parts.

The Grendel Affair

You're perfectly safe. Emily is here to protect your virtue." "That's too bad.

The Girl in the Steel Corset