Protect Quotes

#1. As a writer we are our own instruments; we need to protect our instrument, because no one will protect it if we don't.

Dani Shapiro

#2. A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.

Coretta Scott King

#3. Hide me, I cry,
protect me, for I am the youngest, the most naked of you all.
Jinny rides like a gull on the wave ... but I ... am broken into
separate pieces; I am no longer one.

Virginia Woolf

#4. The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into the future are you willing to protect Homo sapiens on Earth? Before you answer that question, take a detour to Arizona's Meteor Crater during your next vacation.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Melina Marchetta

#6. The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police.

George Osborne

#7. No matter what those sex-ed teachers say about how great condoms are, there's not a condom in the world to protect you from heartbreak.

Natasha Friend

#8. In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

William J. Clinton

#9. When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Robert M. Pirsig

#10. Product procedure ... must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.

Fred Brooks

#11. I will protect your sister and your vicious Grandmother with my life," Viper promised stiffly.

Anonymous

#12. What I want to do is protect the religious liberties of those who believe that opposing same-sex marriage is part of their faith.

Lindsey Graham

#13. I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

Chief Joseph

#14. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment.

Nelson Mandela

#15. By rescuing the financial system without reforming it, Washington has done nothing to protect us from a new crisis, and, in fact, has made another crisis more likely.

Paul Krugman

#16. Some doors we close in life are like fire escape doors. When we exit they close and we can't reopen the door from the other side. The purpose is to protect us from going back.

Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

#17. Salmissra was alone and unguarded. The palace eunuchs were sworn to protect her, but evidently a eunuch's oath doesn't mean all that much to him if it's going to involve bleeding.

David Eddings

#18. There will be a battle, and you will need to protect your heart.

Amy Harmon

#19. Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.

Pope Francis

#20. Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.

Ron Lewis

#21. Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it ...

Megan Johns

#22. I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.

Marjane Satrapi

#23. No, brother-in-law, you have passed a death sentence on your people and on your Queen, your wife, the woman you have vowed to protect. And do not think your child will escape me. I will search all eternity - I will never cease until the child of my sister dies.

Darren Simon

#24. They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to.

Richard Dean Anderson

#25. We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people.

Niger Innis

#26. De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

Christopher Meloni

#27. You come from Planet Hunk, sent to Earth to protect and serve. And make the ladies happy.

Gini Koch

#28. My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

Bob Dylan

#29. And the lass?" Drustan asked carefully. Dageus's smile was icy. "She goes where I go." "Dageus - " "Say no more. If she doesn't go, I doona go." "I would protect her for you." "She goes where I go." "And if she doesn't wish to?" "She will.

Karen Marie Moning

#30. The myth of their total responsibility arose during postwar trials in the Federal Republic of Germany as a way to protect the majority of German killers and isolate the killing from German society as such.

Timothy Snyder

#31. I was an online service provider. It's not my job to police what people are uploading. It's the job of the content owners, and the law is very clear. If you create content, and you want to protect your copyrights, you have to do the work.

Kim Dotcom

#32. Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How - how? - can I make it always so?

Christine Montross

#33. Man acquired a soul and he must fight with all the powers at his disposal to protect that soul against the monster in his dark past.

Etienne Leroux

#34. While separation does not mean disengagement from the world, there are certain activities and places that God clearly wants us to avoid not only to protect ourselves from spiritual harm but so that the witness we have will not be tarnished.

Billy Graham

#35. For each man there are different perspectives, but at the core they are the same. Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into pursuit of evil.

David Gemmell

#36. It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient, and to protect them from harm.

David Jeffrey

#37. [The Senate] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.

James Madison

#38. The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

Emanuel Celler

#39. I understand why you do your job," my mother said to me. "There's a sense of accomplishment when you take down someone bad. It's like being a police officer or being in the Army or being a mother. You have a responsibility to protect and keep order, and you do whatever it takes to get that done.

Janet Evanovich

#40. Gotta protect the little dudes. I tried an AK-47, but it wouldn't fit under my seat. I like the Uzi better, anyway. It looks better with the dress. The AK seems too casual to me

Janet Evanovich

#41. Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.

Frances Beinecke

#42. Permaculture land-use ethics invite us to protect intact ecosystems where they remain and, where ecosystems have been destroyed, to help restore them. Permaculture design also suggests that we take care of earth while taking care of people.

Juliana Birnbaum Fox

#43. But all was fair in love and war. If I had to fight dirty to keep him, then I'd be the dirtiest motherfucker there ever was. "So what's it going to be, Trent?" I pressed. "Are you going to protect my heart and the love it holds for you, or are you going to walk away?

Cambria Hebert

#44. You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.

Yvon Chouinard

#45. Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.

Jeff Koons

#46. The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.

Margaret Atwood

#47. A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

Will Durant

#48. Look, I'm not going to apologise anymore ... Yes, I want to protect you. You're my wife. I'd fucking kill for you, Liv, and if that makes me a possessive bastard of a husband, then fine. That's what I am. I'm not going to change either. I love you too goddamned much.

Nina Lane

#49. Silvia was tough, smart, and could survive on herown - she didn't need a handsome prince to ride up and rescue her. But that didn't mean such a man might not want to protect her from everything he could, anyway.

Patricia Briggs

#50. I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.

Joe Manchin

#51. In many ways, my job in soccer was like my job in basketball now. I had to protect the goal. That was the name of the game, not letting the other team score.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#52. The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

Hill Harper

#53. I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

Dalai Lama

#54. My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things ... she wanted to protect me from it.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#55. It's strange, isn't it? How humans can protect their own with such fierceness and loyalty, yet not blink an eye when it comes to destroying someone else.

Caroline Fyffe

#56. You promised you would protect her Nico said.
He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise.

Rick Riordan

#57. I have my books and poetry to protect me

Paul Simon

#58. Justice ought sometimes to protect those least able to protect themselves.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#59. So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

Yahoo Serious

#60. Until the day comes when the senseless killing ends, we will all have to fight like wildlife warriors to protect our precious planet.

Terri Irwin

#61. Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Elbert Hubbard

#62. Let me tell you something about my family. We're as thick as thieves and we protect each other 'til the end.

Caroline Manzo

#63. Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

George F. Kennan

#64. Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for nonsmoking areas ten years ago.

Kalle Lasn

#65. In the end," Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, "it all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That's what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It's lonely. It's impossible. It's all-consuming." It is what it is.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#66. At FDA, our mission is to promote and protect the health of the public. As commissioner, I've worked hard to galvanize people around that idea. I want employees to be thinking about the unique and essential contribution they are making to our mission.

Margaret Hamburg

#67. Destroy us, land and forest takes forever from your children. Walk the circle of life. Have no fear. Together, let us love and protect our children, respect the land and forest, giving back what we have taken.

Frederic M. Perrin

#68. To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

Anthony De Mello

#69. Perhaps the greatest lesson was also the simplest: Cherish and take care of what you value. Happiness is fragile. Appreciate every moment and do everything you can to protect it. The rest of life, in a sense, is background noise.

Harlan Coben

#70. The energy it sapped from him, not being able to protect her. You wouldn't think that something you couldn't do and were not doing would take any energy, but it did.

Lionel Shriver

#71. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Ronald Reagan

#72. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: we take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

Jodi Picoult

#73. Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.

Mel Brooks

#74. A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.

Curtis Jackson

#75. Allah protect us,' Bold said politely. Then, in Arabic, 'In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.' In his years in Temur's army he had learned to be as much a Muslim as anyone. The Buddha did not mind what you said to be polite.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#76. Healthy trading boils down to two questions you need to ask in every trade: "What is my profit target?" and "How will I protect my capital?

Anonymous

#77. These are people that don't want to protect the American people ... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.

Tom DeLay

#78. I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn't trust each other - hence the separation of powers. And then, to close the deal, the Bill of Rights was added to continue to protect individual rights and freedoms.

John Shimkus

#79. All I want to do is hold you and protect you and love you. Will you let me do that, not matter the consequences?

Lynetta Halat

#80. Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the simple purpose of rationalizing their existence ...

Laurance Labadie

#81. We are destroying the world's greatest pharmacy. It is very important that we protect the rainforest in everything that we do.

Chris Kilham

#82. Just as we can no longer pretend that ducking under wooden desks will keep us safe from a nuclear bomb, we must no longer pretend that a large nuclear stockpile will protect us from the most immediate security threats the United States faces.

Mike Quigley

#83. I do believe in listening to your mind as well that that you need to be smart about certain things, to protect yourself. You need a healthy mix of both really, but it's important not to think so much that you're not able to follow your heart.

Lily Collins

#84. If justice fails in the courtroom, it will not prevail in society.
A broken Justice System does not protect the rights of all people.

Ellen J. Barrier

#85. He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved.

Cassandra Clare

#86. I want to protect your smile, your peace, everything I know about you.

Kyuugou

#87. Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

Zadie Smith

#88. In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.

Max Baucus

#89. As God can protect his people under the greatest despotism, so the utmost civil liberty is no safety to them without the immediate protection of his Almighty arm. I fear that Christians in this country have too great a confidence in political institutions ... [rather] than of the government of God.

Alexander Carson

#90. Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn't like to, in order to protect his family.

Ralph Moody

#91. I'm certain Blackmoor will protect you from anything over unusual, my dear." Alex looked at her companion and tilted her head, pretending to consider the statement before turning back to the countess. "I suppose he'll have to do.

Sarah MacLean

#92. There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

#93. A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

Kay Ryan

#94. If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?

Sarah Harrison

#95. It's government's job to respect and protect the rights of the individual. That vision is centrally important to the principle put forth by the Founding Fathers. If you don't believe that, you shouldn't be in Congress.

Bill Sali

#96. The traditional Indian view was to protect our independence; it was therefore quite consistent with the requirements of the time and the feeling of the people. The world may have been misled by Jawaharlal Nehru's own international projection, which in fact had no reality on the ground.

Subramanian Swamy

#97. I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.

John Rowland

#98. Our films have the ability to tell global audiences who we are, and this is something the government should feel compelled to protect. My film, 'Bend it Like Beckham,' for example, would not have been made without the backing and support of the U.K. Film Council.

Gurinder Chadha

#99. Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.

Epicurus

#100. Everyone at home thought I was nuts when I said I wanted to be an actress, and I'm sure they were just trying to protect me from disappointment.

Kerry Condon