Protected Quotes - Page 18

• The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Rights, Numbers

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• Percy imagined what that would be like: getting an apartment in this tiny replica of Rome, protected by the legion and Terminus the OCD border god. He imagined holding hands with Annabeth at a cafe. Maybe when they were older, watching their own kid chase seagulls across the forum.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Rome, Hands

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• I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Hurt, Pain, Problem

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

  E. M. Forster

  Hands, Shields, Faces

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.154, 谷月社

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• We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Forget, Disappear

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquilly beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. The same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. The moon that, as a crescent, shaved slivers from the soul--or, as a new moon, silently bathed the earth in its own loneliness. THAT moon.

  Haruki Murakami

  Loneliness, Animal, Moon

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• I’m not a child. (Zarek) No, you’re not a child. You never were. Children are supposed to be protected and cared for. You had no one to hold you when you cried. No one ever soothed you. They never told you stories or made you laugh when you were sad. (Astrid)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Laughing, Stories

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• We stand there for a moment, looking at each other, and in that instant I feel our connection so strongly it's as though it achieves physical existence, becomes a hand all around us, cupping us together, protecting us. This is what people are always talking about when they talk about god: this feeling, of being held and understood and protected. feeling this way seems about as close to saying a prayer as you could get.

  Lauren Oliver

  Prayer, Hands, Talking

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.245, Hachette UK

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• "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is another victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated!" There was a brief pause. "In the end they shall kill us"... "But first, they shall fear us!"

  Brandon Sanderson

  Fighting, People, Enemy

  "Mistborn: The Hero of Ages". Boook by by Brandon Sanderson, October 14, 2008.

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• I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

  E. M. Forster

  Shields, Insult, Room With A View

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.488, Delphi Classics

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• He smiled as Will handled the flask gingerly. 'there's a glass bottle inside,but it's padded with straw and protected by the leather covering. It's quite safe. Just be careful how you handle it.

  John Flanagan

  Glasses, Covering, Bottles

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• For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Years, People, Perfect

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.32, Grove Press

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• If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.

  Deb Caletti

  Nice, People, Needs

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.

  Douglas Coupland

  Life, Rain, Fall

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “LIFE AFTER GOD”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No, 'I say. 'Only untested.

  Libba Bray

  Magic, Knows, Ifs

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1287, Delacorte Press

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• It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not see warmth or wisdom; I see fear. You're afraid of losing your hold on them,' I say coolly. I? I have no power.' Don't you? If you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No,' I say. 'Only untested' -page 569

  Libba Bray

  Magic, Pages, Legacy

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

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• You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

  J. K. Rowling

  Healing, Ability To Love, Great Harry Potter

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• I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

  Thornton Wilder

  Marriage, Children, Growing Up

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• protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage of the reconstruction were part of a vast protectionist racket whereby the U.S. government had created their markets with war, barred their competitors from even entering the race, then paid them to do the work, while guaranteeing them a profit to boot - all at taxpayer expense.

  Naomi Klein

  War, Race, Government

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• I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free

  Henry Rollins

  Locked Up, Wells, Locked

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• Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with the heater on, and the defroster on, protected from the rain and the cold? It hasn’t been much longer than that we’ve had lighting for streets. Think of all that darkness, all that world out there, all that mystery that we’ve turned into well-lighted concrete bunkers, safe and warm and dull.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Rain, Thinking, Car

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• But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Thinking, Forever

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.180, Penguin

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• Humans aren’t a protected class. (Acheron) Really? (Jaden) Yeah. Savitar shares your ‘all humans are vermin’ mind set. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Class, Mind, Share

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• Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear.

  Henry Miller

  Individual, Do Not Fear

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• I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are more alike than you think? Well,” the Marquess took September’s hand in hers and very gently kissed it. “We are. Oh, how alike we are! I feel very warmly towards you, and I only want to protect you, as I wish someone had protected me. Come, September, look out the window with me. It’s not a difficult thing. A show of faith, let’s call it.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Thinking, Hands, Soul

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.217, Macmillan

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