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A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective. -- Russell M. Nelson
Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love. -- Andrew Lincoln
My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self. -- Neil LaBute
I've discovered the best skincare, MV Organic Skincare. I love their Energising 9-Oil Cleanser, Rose Hydrating Mist and Rose Soothing & Protective Moisturiser -- Melissa George
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive. -- David Mamet
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. -- Joel Fuhrman
When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help. -- David Atwood
Protective coloration...you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box the world prescribed; it was far to small to hold me. So I knocked down a few walls. -- Bruce Coville
When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services! -- Gabrielle Union
In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. -- Julian Assange
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. -- Hugh Jackman
I'm very protective of my heart -- Nicki Minaj
I am very protective of my family. -- Christa Miller
On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me. -- Catherine Deneuve
I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair. -- Whitney Houston
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. -- Marshall McLuhan
I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out. -- Lisa Marie Presley
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective. -- Joseph Joubert
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
The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. -- Yehudi Menuhin
I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually. -- Jacqueline Bisset
My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way. -- Julianna Margulies
Mooner was walking around laying his hands on the cars, divining karma. "this is it", he said, standing by a small khaki-colored jeep."this car has protective qualities" You mean like a guardian angel?" I mean, like, it has seatbelts -- Janet Evanovich
I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go to war for this or that reason -that history is a protective armor against being misled. -- Howard Zinn
Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding, without the state intervening otherwise than by its protective action; this is what is meant by liberty -- Frederic Bastiat
Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man. -- John Galt
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. -- Floyd Abrams
I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I'm living for her, so I'm fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair. -- Whitney Houston
People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume. -- Mitchell Baker
I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust. -- Lee Daniels
The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us. -- Julian Assange
I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all. -- Tyra Banks
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. -- Ezra Cornell
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 is full of potential attacks, potential disasters. -- Camille Paglia
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. -- Rick Perry
I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely. -- Christina Ricci
People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country. -- Steve Largent
I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter. -- Taylor Swift
Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family. -- Martha Griffiths
If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things. -- Maya Angelou
There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective - that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive. -- Jane Goodall
Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in any case, I never became a talkative person. As an adult, I am not always comfortable in social gatherings with small talk. I must have inherited my father's gentle nature. -- Charles K. Kao
For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive and protective around what they've built. You have an emotional attachment to the early marketing and technology materials, and you don't want to hear that anything's wrong with them. -- Lynn Jurich
I don't have any siblings, but I have best friends that I have known since kindergarten that I'm protective of. If they call me and tell me someone was mean to them at school - I want to go to school and be mean to that person and try to stand up for them. -- Miranda Cosgrove
My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel. -- Martha Beck
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. -- Jill McCorkle
My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass. -- Jimmy Fallon
Being protective is important. -- Alice Eve
I'm fiercely protective of my privacy. -- Carla Gugino
Silence is a protective coating over pain. -- E. Lockhart
Netflix is very protective with their information . -- Baron Vaughn
People are far more protective [of women] instinctively. -- Zoe Bell
My mother was very protective of her four boys. -- Maurice Saatchi
He was being about as protective as a can-opener. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
We would always be under The Pentagon's protective umbrella -- Omar Torrijos
I'd always walk my girlfriend home, i'm too protective! -- Niall Horan
I'm protective of the reputation of Christ and the church. -- Max Lucado
I sometimes get very protective of the people I play. -- Sienna Miller
I prefer to date younger girls to be more protective. -- Zayn Malik
I'm very protective of how much I let people see. -- Christina Aguilera
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade. -- Thorstein Veblen
With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable. -- Michael Shanks
I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV. -- Kimora Lee Simmons
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When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult. -- Mason Cooley
I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat. -- John Swartzwelder
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto. -- Marquis de Sade
To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based. -- Joel Fuhrman
Sundance is a really special place. They're very protective of movies, especially lower-budget movies. -- Marc Webb
Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom. -- Mitch Daniels
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist. -- Andrew Vachss
Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original. -- Carey Mulligan
Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all. -- Jerry Saltz
My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective. -- Lady Gaga
When I was younger, they used to tease me. And now they're quite protective. -- Emma Watson
We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives. -- Kyan Douglas
over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it -- Margaret Weis
The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system, -- Joel Fuhrman
The right raw materials can... double or triple the protective power of the immune system. -- Joel Fuhrman
Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective. -- Trey Parker
And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all. -- Nigel Lythgoe
I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child. -- Diane Ladd
I do not have a helmet. But this is a wig, so it's a little protective. -- Zach Galifianakis
As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history -- Kate Millett
I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page. -- Sara Gruen
There are clear differences between and some- and there may be protective factors in a female brain. -- Gerald Fischbach
I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered. -- Katie Price
You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust! -- Mooji
I love my brothers' kids. It's funny - as an uncle, you become so protective of them. -- Liam Hemsworth
I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along. -- Jim Goad
Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web? -- E. B. White
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Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty. -- William Graham Sumner
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. -- Frank Herbert
There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished. -- Hilary Mantel
I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me. -- Leona Lewis
... he was sunset against the mountains, strong, vibrant, dangerous, and yet somehow sheltering, protective. And married. Picnic, meet rain. -- Devon Monk
My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets. -- Emo Philips
I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff. -- Abraham Lincoln
That macho protective bullshit is just some asshat man pissing on his territory so the other dogs will stay away. -- Tammara Webber
My sons are very protective and loving towards me, but I don't know what's in their secret minds about me. -- Kola Boof
A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive. -- Jane Goodall
I am feeling as if my parents are my children. I'm extremely protective about both of them while on the set -- Ranbir Kapoor
I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious. -- Orlando Bloom
I collected X-Men, Spider-Man, and Daredevil comics. I definitely had a few Captain America comics lying around in those protective plastic baggies. -- Kenneth Choi
If I had kids, I'd probably be way over-protective, researching everything they begged to see to make sure the content was appropriate. -- Jen Lancaster
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
When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
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I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time. -- Michael Buble
Someone asked me if I play piano because I feel like I have a protective wall around me. Maybe. I am really messed up. -- Daniel Powter
The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?' -- Adam McKay
He had an intrusive gaze and quietly confident manner, that seemed to strip away the layers of protective deception Scott would usually adopt around strangers." -- R.D. Ronald
I'm not a very serious Jew. I don't wear the protective religious headgear. They only wear that because 40% of all religious thoughts escape through the head. -- Jon Stewart
I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable. -- Jimmy Cliff
Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small. -- Vironika Tugaleva

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