Shields Quotes - Page 9

• Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Character, Wrinkles, Hair

  FaceBook post by Susanna Kaysen from Mar 08, 2016

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• In a world of unrest and fear, political turmoil and moral drift, I testify that Jesus is the Christ—that He is the living Bread and living Water—still, yet, and always the great Shield of safety in our lives.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Safety, Water

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• Three things trust and cherish well- The horse on which you ride, The beast that guards and watches, And your shield-mate at your side.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Horse, Your Side, Watches

  Mercedes Lackey (1998). “Oathblood”, p.52, Penguin

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• I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

  Dorothy Parker

  May, Weapons, Ridicule

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.

  Saint Augustine

  Jesus, Sleep, Angel

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• The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

  Frank Herbert

  Progress, Utopia, Terror

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.

  Allison Pearson

  Mother, Thinking, Curves

  "I Don't Know How She Does It". Book by Allison Pearson, 2003.

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• Gil-galad was an Elven-king. Of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the Mountains and the Sea. His sword was long, his lance was keen, his shining helm afar was seen; the countless stars of heaven's field were mirrored in his silver shield. But long ago he rode away, and where he dwelleth none can say; for into darkness fell his star in Mordor where the shadows are.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Stars, Long Ago

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Light, Wind

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• Return with your shield, or upon it.’ (Julian's stepmother)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Return, Stepmothers

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• Anya jumped in front of the man, acting as his shield. “Now, Sabin. He didn’t mean any harm. He’s borderline stupid. You know that.

  Gena Showalter

  Stupid, Mean, Men

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Whisper”, p.95, HQN Books

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• Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend." "Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.

  Scott Lynch

  Peace, Children, Night

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1253, Del Rey

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• See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.

  Philip James Bailey

  Heaven, Azure, Sun

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.68

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• Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.

  Alice Cooper

  Family, Mother, Hiding

  Song: Generation Landslide '81, Album: Special Forces, 1981

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• Such power I gave the people as might do,
  Abridged not what they had, now lavished new,
  Those that were great in wealth and high in place
  My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace.
  Before them both I held my shield of might,
  And let not either touch the other's right.

  Plutarch

  People, Might, Wealth

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.119, 谷月社

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• Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Intellectual, Fiction, Stories

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• When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.

  Michael Chiklis

  Thinking, Space, Mourning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.

  Jamie Foxx

  Men, People, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fighting, Creating, Ideas

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• When thing are at it's worse you dig deep and finish your mission or be carried out on your shield.

  Cung Le

  Mma, Missions, Dig Deep

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• The way to develop your psychic ability is by learning to create a shield between yourself and the sensorial and vibratory bombardment that we experience in the modern world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Way, World

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• Build a shield between yourself and the descriptions of the world that everyone else has.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Description, Seeing

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• Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.

  Galileo Galilei

  Ignorance, Order, Wings

  "The Crime of Galileo". Book by Giorgio De Santillana, p. 167, 1976.

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• Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Art, Law, Justice

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1842). “The masque of Anarchy, a poem, with a preface by L. Hunt. To which is added, Queen Liberty; Song- To the men of England”, p.18

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• So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

  E. Howard Hunt

  War, Heart, Europe

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