Top 100 Protect Myself Quotes
#2. I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.
Nicola Yoon
#3. I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
Orson Welles
#4. Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
Carine Roitfeld
#5. John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.
Judy Johnson
#6. I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.
Edie Brickell
#7. How could I protect myself? I had the Viking's scabbard, but not the sword; I had the Buddhist's robe, but not the faith.
Andrew Davidson
#8. I knew that there was an underlying thing there that I was never really able to come face to face with. There's a part of me that wants to always protect myself because of what I had gone through. But I learned that you have to let people in. Going to the therapist kind of helped me with that.
LaToya Jackson
#9. I'm a private person. And I have a certain way in which I protect myself. I don't openly wear my feelings.
Katrina Kaif
#10. It's time to take that leap and be what he believes is something achievable. Finally shed the weakness old Willow wore as a cloak of protection and allow my determination to be stronger and to be all the armor I need to protect myself.
Harper Sloan
#11. I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote 'In Contempt' was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.
Christopher Darden
#12. What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.
Jane Campion
#13. I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.
Lauren Bacall
#14. It took me years to get over you. Truth is, I never did fully get over you. I just learned to live without you. I can't ever do that again. It almost killed me. And as much as I would love to kiss you right now, I have to protect myself. It can't happen. I'm sorry.
Rachel Hanna
#15. I never felt, 'Oh, I think I look good.' I always tend to be more in the insecure side. And I thought that has always been a way to protect myself. Because I don't trust the good feelings that can come from that.
Penelope Cruz
#16. Everyday feels the same and yet I crave sameness.
Part of me wants to run away and be free.
I feel trapped in my life I've created to protect myself.
Tina J. Richardson
#17. I choose to live without hope to protect myself from disappointment. It's very effective!
Spencer Kayden
#18. To protect myself from the rear, I have to stand slantwise.
Lu Xun
#19. I want to protect myself from any further, darker memories of hers, get myself out of here gracefully before something embarrassing happens. She's balanced on the edge of an artificial hilarity that could topple over at any moment into its opposite, into tears and desperation.
Margaret Atwood
#20. I believe my first duty is to survive. And I'm not just talking about criminals coming into my home. I once seriously considered getting a gun to protect myself from the police. If I need a weapon to continue living, I'll get one. And I'll use it.
George Carlin
#21. I see you, and I suddenly forget why I was keeping score. That's why I stayed away, I guess. It was a last-ditch effort to protect myself. Because you totally, utterly undo me.
Andrea Lochen
#22. When fear and suffering are disliked by me and others equally what is so special about me that I protect myself and not the other?
Santideva
#23. I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.
Elena Ferrante
#24. For as long as I can remember, I have disappointed her, so I have put a wall between us in an effort to protect myself.
Rachel Friedman
#25. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
J.D. Salinger
#26. I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed. I
Marc Maron
#27. I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.
Ward Cunningham
#28. I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
Lana Parrilla
#29. I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.
Michael Reagan
#30. I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.
Anthony Weiner
#31. I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
M. Night Shyamalan
#32. I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have to protect myself. I'm quite lucky that I can carry on without any intrusions. I don't get given a hard time by anyone.
Jim Broadbent
#33. I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children.
Tim Allen
#34. I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
Gary Dourdan
#35. Even though there will be times when I'll need to protect myself - there will definitely be times when I'll have to put up my guard just to monitor what comes in and out of my life - there's a grace there ... no pun intended!
Grace Gealey
#36. What are you going to do? (Angelia)
I ought to rip your throat out. But lucky for you, I'm just a dumb animal and killing for revenge isn't in my nature. Killing to protect myself and those in my pack is another story. You'd do well to remember that. (Fury)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. I was so fired up to protect myself from you playin' games with my heart, I played yours.
Kristen Ashley
#38. I would still rather feel things and live life to the fullest rather than hide in a cave and attempt to protect myself from the uncertainties of the world.
Elizabeth Berrien
#39. I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way.
Dani Shapiro
#40. When I feel betrayed, I cut that person out of my life to protect myself from getting hurt anymore. So I stopped seeing Jennifer after that, and I lost one of the only people in my life who truly seemed to have loved me. A
Jenna Jameson
#41. I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#42. And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss
and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.
Richard Ford
#43. I'm having to protect myself. How do you protect your heart and cover everything? When you don't want to look people in the eye and you're constantly dodging, I fall into it.
Tobias Segal
#44. I probably protect myself by not asking myself too much.
Sue Tompkins
#45. I don't have to do emails, I don't have to protect myself about anything, I don't have any chain of command. My job is just to try and give everybody the tools that they need to express themselves.
Rick McCallum
#46. For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.
Michael Leunig
#47. O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me.
Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.
William Blake
#48. I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Thomas More
#49. And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.
Suzanne Collins
#51. But sometimes, when confronted by something of unfathomable beauty, the bars of the cage around us begin to tremble. So I ran away to protect myself and remained a prisoner.
Simon Van Booy
#52. I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.
Jacob Lawrence
#53. I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.
Marjane Satrapi
#54. Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.
Max Beckmann
#55. You belong to me. We are not in a temporary relationship or whatever fucked up nonsense you want to call it. We are real, and you are mine. You became mine the first time I held you in my arms, and I swore to myself, I would protect you always." - Jackson Cole
Sarah Curtis
#56. I can feel that photo of Anna staring at me from sixty years ago, and I can't help myself from wanting to protect her, wanting to save her from becoming what she already is.
Kendare Blake
#57. I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me. The word and the thought are over.
Czeslaw Milosz
#58. I had to protect him. And me. So I took everything I felt for the pack. I saw the bond, and instead of closing myself off to it, I pulled. I pulled at it and I thrust it toward Chase.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#59. I must furnish those, who would protect or save life, with an energy source, which produces energy so cheaply that nuclear fission will not only be uneconomical, but ridiculous. This is the task I have set myself in what little life I have left.
Viktor Schauberger
#60. I can protect you against everything except myself.
- Derek
Lisa Kleypas
#61. He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.
Francoise Sagan
#62. Okay, I'm dreaming. Hallucinating. Brought on by stress. I had a hard day today and this is my mind trying to protect itself from ... from stuff. Lots of stuff. (Geary)
(Arik, Trieg, and ZT stare at Geary.)
Oh, like I'm any less sane than the three of you just because I talk to myself. (Geary)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#63. Just as I defend myself, therefore,
From all unpleasant happenings however small,
Likewise, I shall act for others' sake
To guard and to protect them with compassion.
Shantideva
#64. ..i'd like to take my professional life, my career, my writing, my family and my friends seriously, but please, please protect me from ever taking myself too seriously.... Seumas
Seumas Gallacher
#65. I've had my own anecdotals with old friends, here's a gentleman quoted in the Times about, "I believe my government is suppose to protect me but it has let me down. I resent having to defend myself; I shouldn't have to but at this point I don't feel like I have a choice."
Chuck Todd
#66. When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.
Emily Blunt
#67. I had to learn, because as an artist myself, an artist owns that right to protect their interest of how they want to roll their project out. It's just important to give them that opportunity to roll it out the way they want to.
Bryce Wilson
#68. I grew up in a strong faith-based family. I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my family, for myself and to protect our children and to forgive others and move on and face forward.
Paula Broadwell
#69. I've definitely made sure to surround myself with friends who are going to protect me.
Danny Wood
#70. I'll never turn her away, Clyde. She's my mate. I'll protect her till my dying breath. I'll even swallow my pride and ask a favor as momentous as the one I just asked of a man who has done nothing but try to drive a wedge between her and myself.
J.L. Sheppard
#71. I was good at fabricating the truth when necessary to protect someone, even myself.
Matt Abrams
#72. Why do people carry guns? Protection, right? To protect me and myself. Whether it's home protection or street protection.
Snoop Dogg
#73. If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.
Azar Nafisi
#74. I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.
Will Smith
#75. The only thing you're safe from is everyone and everything else. I can protect you from literally anything but myself.
Pray that i don't love you, Juliette. I'm scared of what will happen to you if i do - The Last Girl
Kitty Thomas
#76. I have to manage and protect my brand. For the details I can always hire people who can knuckle down much better. For that I need people who are different to myself. People who compensate for my weaknesses.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#77. I couldn't leave you alone with them. I'm your Guardian and I swore to protect you, no matter what." And if anything had happened to you I'd never be able to forgive myself. You're already too important to me, and it scares me.
Brittany DeLys
#78. There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.
Jane Goodall
#79. There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
Kate Dickie
#80. I tell myself it will protect me. He will protect me.
Lisa Schroeder
#81. I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.
Diana Gabaldon
#82. I know, I think to myself, wishing she could read me. I know and it's okay. I've got you. I want to protect her. I want her under my arm, under my wing. And I don't ever want to let her go.
Karina Halle
#83. Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.
Georg Brandes
#84. He's safe, I repeated to myself over and over again. But even I knew it wasn't the truth. For now he was safe, but they'd find him. Eventually they'd find him, they always do. I was supposed to protect him. I was supposed to keep him alive. Instead I'd brought him directly into the lion's pit.
Nicole Sobon
#85. I don't believe that everybody is out of some kind of cookie cutter, so the thing that protects me is always being level with myself, even to myself.
Chuck D
#86. Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.
Nicole Kidman
#87. AND THEN I REACH INSIDE MYSELF. DIRECTIVE QUANDARY. PROTECT. PRIORITIZE. REACHING DEEP. DELETING SUBDIRECTORY 84823MOR-(*-)001 AND I OPEN THE DOORS TO HANGAR BAY 4.
Amie Kaufman
#88. AND THEN I REACH INSIDE MYSELF. < DIRECTIVE QUANDARY. PROTECT. PRIORITIZE. > REACHING DEEP. < DELETING SUBDIRECTORY 84823MOR-(*-)001 > AND I OPEN THE DOORS TO HANGAR BAY 4.
Amie Kaufman
#89. If I wanted to change my life then I'd have to do it myself. Because no one was coming to protect me, or save me, or heal me.
J.A. Huss
#90. How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live; we don't care; we don't protect what God created for everyone, and we end up unable even to care for one another.
Pope Francis
#91. Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's really very simple. You're the artist. It's your picture that's going on the CD cover, nobody else's. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You'll kick yourself later if you don't.
Bun E. Carlos
#92. I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
Audre Lorde
#93. I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to that rule myself.
Richard Branson
#94. My lawyer, a mere stripling, has paid me a call. Since I have no money, the Federal Government is paying him to protect me from injustice. Moreover, I cannot be tortured or otherwise compelled to testify against myself. What a Utopia! Among
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#95. I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously
Jules Verne
#96. He would always be something sharp and deadly on the inside, something that could be used to destroy, but every blade needs a sheath and every gun needs a holster to protect it. I had no problem offering myself up as the thing that kept this particular weapon secure.
Jay Crownover
#97. I will protect this girls with everything I have, because if something happens to her, I will lose myself. I will cease to exist.
And I will take everyone with me.
Victoria Scott
#98. Do not degrade me in the military uniform I wear for it represents the love I have for my country, and the sacrifices myself and millions of other American soldiers make everyday to protect the freedom we enjoy by living in the United States of America.
Larry David
#99. I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?
Geronimo
#100. If their hearts get fragile, I'll become their support. If they are threatened, I'll become their shield. I'll sacrifice myself any day to protect everyone. That's why I came back!!" ~ Kiyoshi Teppei
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