Protective Instinct Quotes

#1. If we allow ourselves even for a moment to contemplate the vast weight of suffering in the world, we will easily be overwhelmed with grief. This is why we develop the habit and self-protective instinct of overlooking the suffering around us.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

#2. You are a man with a protective instinct. To care that deeply is a blessing. But like most blessings, it can also be a curse.

Louise Penny

#3. What if this is a horrible mistake?" I croaked.
"Oh, it'll be horrible fine, just a bunch of pretentious rich people with shelves of expensive books they've never read.

Ruta Sepetys

#4. A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

George Gilder

#5. Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

Gregory David Roberts

#6. For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don't need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.

Kristen Stewart

#8. Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!

Artemas Ward

#9. I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons.

Jennifer Carpenter

#10. Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.

Thomas Cooper

#11. I knew I had an unreasonable attachment to her, and an overblown protective instinct for reasons we'd already discussed.

Juliette Jones

#12. It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.

Halle Berry

#13. I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

Adrienne Rich

#14. CEM is a dark psychological stealth bomber, avoiding detection and defense until it is too late.

Michael Pace

#15. If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle.

Jim Stengel

#16. Maybe we choose to stay in a constant state of ignorance as a protective instinct - maybe I was just in denial. I just don't get how you can be completely in love with someone one day, and then all of a sudden you just aren't. I will never forget that day ... the day where I became numb.

Piper Caleb

#17. I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

Arne Glimcher

#18. The faithfulness principle (of the conservative) and the flexibility principle (of the liberal) are two sides of the same coin. They are both necessary if Christians are to follow their instructions and remain simultaneously "in" the world but not "of" it.

Os Guinness

#19. A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

Armstrong Williams

#20. That lack of value sense would deprive a person from a protective instinct.

Sunday Adelaja

#21. The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

Ron Chernow

#22. That's an awful lot of littles, don't you think?"
"Perhaps." He displayed his hand. "Big." He set hers next to his, so small and delicate contrasted with his thick, blunt fingers. Why did holding her fragile hand raise every protective instinct he had?

Cherise Sinclair