Protective Quotes

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. (Yehudi Menuhin)
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. View quote
Frank Herbert
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
Silence is a protective coating over pain. View quote
E. Lockhart
My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self. View quote
Neil LaBute
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. View quote
Floyd Abrams
First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good. View quote
Vinny Testaverde
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. View quote
Halle Berry
Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return. View quote
Suzanne Collins
My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and... placing bets... View quote
Emo Philips
The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service. (Laura Riding)
Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress. View quote
Peter Senge
Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But once in a while that backfires and you're suddenly reading something that has a bent on it that you didn't feel was in the least bit a part of the conversation that you thought you were having. Then you get overly protective and say very little and then you come out of the hole again. View quote
Gillian Anderson
I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of. View quote
Hugh Jackman
Unpredictability is in general a fine protective feature, which should never be squandered but always spent wisely. There is much to be gained from communication if it is craftily doled out - enough truth to keep one's credibility high but enough falsehood to keep one's options open. (This is the first point of wisdom in the game of poker: he who never bluffs never wins; he who always bluffs always loses.) View quote
Daniel Dennett
The masks we wear are simply veils that we have chosen to hide behind in order to get our way, or to demonstrate how we are reacting to the powers and forces that seem to influence us from the external world. They are part of our self image, and in some cases the mask is nothing more than a protective device, a defense mechanism. View quote
John Randolph Price
Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings. View quote
Joel Fuhrman
As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history. View quote
Kate Millett
I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out. View quote
Lisa Marie Presley
I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love. View quote
Andrew Lincoln
Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching. (Bridget Fonda)
I am very protective of my family. View quote
Christa Miller
I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff. View quote
Ezra Cornell
It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know. View quote
Floyd Abrams
I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins. View quote
Jill McCorkle