Protection Quote by Colm Tóibín Download Open image ““It is terrible to be an unprotected being.”” — Colm Tóibín ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Protection Safety Security
“It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.” — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“Maybe if you hadn’t protected her so much, she would know more about what is dangerous and what isn’t, and be a little less… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“It is hard to be defensive toward a danger which you have never imagined existed.” — John Christopher Copy Share Image
“Bad things happen whether you're scared or not, so you might as well not bother being scared. It's a waste of time.” — Louise Rozett Copy Share Image
“Of course, you can’t protect anybody from everything bad. […] All you can do is hope she’s tough enough to get through the bad… — Trish Cook, Brendan Halpin Copy Share Image
“Most people just go from day to day protecting themselves and making sure nothing goes too wrong.” — Michael A. Singer Copy Share Image
I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“The details of what I told him were with me all the years in the same way as my hands or my arms were… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls.… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
[P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious Milosevic-era crimes. — Avis Bohlen Copy Share Image
The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Seclusion wasn't good for anyone; it made you forget how to protect yourself.” — Heather James Copy Share Image
A man, a real man, a 'wonderful man,' will be too busy protecting your heart to play with it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is when someone has the power to break your heart into a thousand pieces, but they make sure it stays in 1 piece. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image