Protective Quotes
246 quotes by 228 authors
-
The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must…
— Judith Lewis Herman
-
No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and…
— Shirley Jackson
-
That macho protective bullshit is just some asshat man pissing on his territory so the other dogs will stay away.
— Tammara Webber
-
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
-
What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased…
— Douglas Hofstadter
-
He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The…
— J R Ward
-
You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel like one. I…
— Nathanael West
-
Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers…
— Neil Gaiman
-
And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility, i saw that…
— Virginia C. Andrews
-
That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child…
— Ted Hughes
-
Hang on, Pa, don't reach for yer shotgun just yet," I said, grinning over the protective streak I found funny, when there wasn't actually anything…
— Rachel Vincent
-
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
— Marquis de Sade
-
And it was kind of funny to see all these professional fighters unwilling to get within a mile of the female. Then again, if you…
— J R Ward
-
He is just protective over me-†“Not protective, Tania. Consumed.
— Paullina Simons
-
The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has far-reaching…
— Roger Tory Peterson
-
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…
— Camille Paglia
-
Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.
— Peter Morgan
-
I feel very protective of younger actresses, because it was so hard for me in the business.
— Leslie Mann
-
Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of…
— George W. S. Trow
-
My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to…
— Dane DeHaan
Who Wrote These Protective Quotes
228 authors contributed a total of 246 Protective Quotes, led by these top contributors: