Top 100 Protective Quotes
#1. Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.
Huston Smith
#2. I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
Camille Paglia
#3. When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
Gabrielle Union
#4. The sexist perception that violence by anyone against only women is anti-woman while violence by a woman against only men is just generic violence creates a political demand for laws that are even more protective of women.
Warren Farrell
#5. Jake stayed right next to her, his hold at once protective and possessive. There was no doubt in her mind that she loved this man. "How did you get it?" She didn't
Kaylea Cross
#6. In his mind a protective glaze had been applied to the crystal forms of high abstraction: he loved to regard them, and to wonder at their shine, but he had never thought to take them down from their carved and oaken mantel, so to speak, and feel them, supple in his hands.
Eleanor Catton
#7. The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.
Bill Simmons
#8. How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!
Hortense Odlum
#9. Daemon Black could be as prickly as a hedgehog having a really bad day, but underneath all that spindly armor, he was sweet, protective, and incredibly selfless.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#10. If I had kids, I'd probably be way over-protective, researching everything they begged to see to make sure the content was appropriate.
Jen Lancaster
#11. Silence is a protective coating over pain.
E. Lockhart
#12. Trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group. Teammates are vulnerable with one another; they are confident that their respective vulnerabilities will not be used against them.
Patrick Lencioni
#13. A central part of the torturer's craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.
Jonathan Glover
#14. the protective energies have adapted toward defending the individual psychologically, rather than physiologically.
Michael A. Singer
#15. Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic information. Telomeres are buffers. They are like the tips of shoelaces. If you lose the tips, the ends start fraying.
Elizabeth Blackburn
#16. We have two older brothers and two younger sisters; Sam and I are in the middle, and I've always felt protective and closest to him.
Rebecca Ferguson
#17. Use Cod Liver Oil According to studies, the fatty acids found abundantly in the oil can switch off enzymes that break down cartilage (the smooth protective coating in our bodies
C.D. Shelton
#18. Like flowers and plants, we too need ground under our feet, warmth and sunshine and food for our spirit, protective boundaries, tending and care, freedom to grow unencumbered and without limitation, and complete support from the Universe to become our greatest possible self.
Sonia Choquette
#19. Fond and protective equals love? I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry.
Rachel Hartman
#20. I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.
Michael Buble
#21. Cinder pressed a hand against the bars, but the soldiers pulled her away, forming a protective wall between her and the barricade. As if she was worth protecting. Cinder tried not to be annoyed.
Marissa Meyer
#22. I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom, boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!
Kelly Brook
#23. I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go to war for this or that reason -that history is a protective armor against being misled.
Howard Zinn
#24. On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
Catherine Deneuve
#25. One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to a Warrior. Logan's own protective nature and the fact that the humans have been knocked back into defensive positions informed a lot of what the Guardian became.
Jeff Grubb
#27. I WAS NOT EXPECTING A NAC MAC FEEGLE TODAY, said Death. OTHERWISE I WOULD HAVE WORN PROTECTIVE CLOTHING, HA HA.
Terry Pratchett
#28. I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable.
Jimmy Cliff
#29. Having a BRCA2 mutation makes you more susceptible to melanoma, for example, so you would need to take extra precautions to protect yourself from harmful sun exposure, including wearing sunblock and sun-protective clothing when outdoors.
Sue Friedman
#30. Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.
Jerry Saltz
#31. I knew I had an unreasonable attachment to her, and an overblown protective instinct for reasons we'd already discussed.
Juliette Jones
#32. When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters.
Nancy Pelosi
#33. He reached out and laid a hand against Quick Ben's brow, then grunted. 'He's on his way back. It's protective sorcery that's keeping him asleep.' 'Can you speed things up?' 'Sure.' The healer slapped the wizard. 'Quick Ben's eyes snapped open.
Steven Erikson
#34. The Pastor had spent his boyhood in the old country and was not at all sure that hot water, stall showers and the like were necessary to salvation. In fact it was one of his notions that Americans were too clean. Rub all the natural protective oils off their skins, they do for a fact.
Budd Schulberg
#35. Wherever autocratic power vanished at an early date - as in the Netherlands and later in England - and the protective interest receded into the background, they swiftly discovered that trade must be free - free to the nethermost recesses of hell.
Joseph Alois Schumpeter
#36. Blythe turned the tables on him. She was genuine. Sweet. Protective. Nurturing. Everything he'd never had and didn't know he needed or wanted. It was impossible not to love her.
Christine Feehan
#38. Aristotle thought place should "take precedence of all other things" because place gives order to the world. Casey tells us that Aristotle claimed that place "gives bountiful aegis - active protective support - to what it locates.
Anonymous
#39. No one survived on the streets without a protective mask. No one survived naked. You had to have a role. You had to be "thug," "playa," "athlete," "gangsta," or "dope man." Otherwise, there was only one role left to you: "victim.
Jerry Heller
#40. And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.
Nigel Lythgoe
#41. It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago.
Smiley Blanton
#42. In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.
Yoko Ono
#43. Annie smiled. "The MacKinnon men are very protective of their women.
Pamela Clare
#44. People are far more protective [of women] instinctively.
Zoe Bell
#45. In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
Alice Walker
#46. I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.
Stephanie Roberts
#47. I'm not a very serious Jew. I don't wear the protective religious headgear. They only wear that because 40% of all religious thoughts escape through the head.
Jon Stewart
#48. I think it's important for a guy to be 'protective,' shall we say, but you don't want to come off like you just rolled around in an Old Spice factory. Everyone has their own natural scent.
Mark Ronson
#49. I never knew how protective I was until I had my own child. I'm already thinking about intruders coming into the house and what our escape route would be.
Jessica Simpson
#50. Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.
Terry Goodkind
#51. When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.
Mason Cooley
#52. So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
Floyd Abrams
#53. What would it be like to have someone tell you that you were his own? That you were his own in a loving, protective way - not like you were his property.
Cathleen Armstrong
#54. Don't give up hope. It took many of us twenty years or more to acquire these protective behaviors we umbrella with the word codependency. It may take as much time as that to let go of them.
Melody Beattie
#55. The woman brought out his protective instincts to the point he couldn't think straight sometimes. He'd never felt like that about anyone and it was jarring. Sometimes he wondered if he got a taste of her if it would slake the need he always seemed to have for her.
Katie Reus
#56. Theres something alluring and dangerous about him, but comforting and protective. When I think about him, my stomach knots, my heart rate quickens and ... and I could go on ... -Laney
Joann I. Martin Sowles
#58. Sometimes when you film, you can be in a bit of a bubble, and then suddenly when you finish filming, it's taken out of your hands - it's not yours anymore, and we all love it so much that we feel quite protective of it.
Kimberley Nixon
#59. Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original.
Carey Mulligan
#60. I don't have any siblings, but I have best friends that I have known since kindergarten that I'm protective of. If they call me and tell me someone was mean to them at school - I want to go to school and be mean to that person and try to stand up for them.
Miranda Cosgrove
#61. Dissociated trauma memories are not attached to other memories by association. These memories go directly to the unconscious as a biological response separates awareness from consciousness. It's a natural, protective occurrence and it happens without will.
Jeanne McElvaney
#63. Mooner was walking around laying his hands on the cars, divining karma. "this is it", he said, standing by a small khaki-colored jeep."this car has protective qualities"
You mean like a guardian angel?"
I mean, like, it has seatbelts
Janet Evanovich
#64. She'd faced some hard knocks in life - one really hard one five years ago - and had managed to cultivate a protective shell for herself. But like a Godiva truffle, she was only hard in a thin outer layer. Her insides were still as tender as ever.
Becky Wade
#65. One of the things I love about you is how protective you are, but it also drives me crazy. You can't protect me forever.
Oh, I could so do that.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#66. No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
Andrew Vachss
#67. 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
#68. I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.
Sam Hamill
#70. With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.
Michael Shanks
#71. the walking stick, like a burqa, conferred protective status...
Robert Galbraith
#72. I am feeling as if my parents are my children. I'm extremely protective about both of them while on the set
Ranbir Kapoor
#73. The neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.
Jean Baudrillard
#74. In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.
Julian Assange
#75. You're so beautiful, angel. The most beautiful woman I've ever known. That kind of beauty has a strange power over men - it makes us feel strong and yet weak. Protective of it and yet defenseless against it.
Melanie Harlow
#76. Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.
Honore De Balzac
#77. He's like my wolf - dangerous, alluring and protective - but I can never get close enough or else he'll bite me.
Krista Ritchie
#78. The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.
Julian Assange
#79. I've decided it's not about me at all. It's a protective mechanism for them, a way of buffering themselves against my future death, like when teenagers distance themselves from their parents in preparation for leaving home.
Sara Gruen
#80. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.
Whitney Houston
#81. You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust!
Mooji
#82. The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe.
Keith Donohue
#83. Most people have this protective view of the presidency. Anybody who holds the office is always gonna get the benefit of the doubt unless the media spends four years destroying them like they did Bush, and with Bush not returning fire.
Rush Limbaugh
#84. I'm not alone, I think. Carmichael's height, his black T-shirt, black jeans, and dark hair feel like a protective wall beside me. But I am alone. I am completely alone.
Amanda Maciel
#85. And I knew that. Male panthers, all of them, were a very Neanderthalish lot. They liked their mates at home when they were, around, underfoot, close enough to touch at all times. Semels were twice as possessive, twice as protective, and three times as caveman-inclined.
Mary Calmes
#86. I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.
John Swartzwelder
#87. Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
Marquis De Sade
#88. Because I'm attracted to you. Because you're the poster child for contradictions and I enjoy each one of them. You're funny when you're being so damn serious. You have a kind heart and protective nature that reminds me so much of my father.
N.D. Jones
#89. The bitch-goddess, as she is called, of Success, roamed, snarling and protective, round the half-humble, half-defiant Michaelis' heels, and intimidated Clifford completely: for he wanted to prostitute himself to the bitchgoddess, Success also, if only she would have him.
D.H. Lawrence
#90. I think when you are an only child, parents are more protective and fearful because they've only got one of you. I was not allowed to do a lot of things that, if I'd been, say, number three, I would have.
Rosamund Pike
#91. I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
Taylor Swift
#92. I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.
Brandi Carlile
#93. I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting. A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by
Libba Bray
#94. The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.
William O. Douglas
#95. I sometimes get very protective of the people I play.
Sienna Miller
#96. All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.
Karen Marie Moning
#97. I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.
Leona Lewis
#98. As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.
Kate Millett
#99. Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.
Arthur Balfour
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