#rote

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#actually #changed #direction #eight #five

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance. ↗

— Jane Campion

#evil #get #good #i #i have learned

We as Republicans understand that we have got to protect these... entitlement programs - these entitlement programs for our seniors today. And we have to sit down and have a discussion. We need more ideas on the table. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#down #entitlement #entitlement programs #got #ideas

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#elements #great #gun #modern #modern civilization

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy. ↗

— Paul Walker

#father #protector

And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppy’s floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it.” (Charles) ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#love #overprotective-brothers #love

Shortly after you left the room, Bushell came over and spoke to your father. I was not near enough to hear what he said, but Maria Lucas told me afterwards that he had been -' (she smiled) 'amazingly impertinent.' 'Peter actually spoke to Papa?' 'He did. According to Maria, he had the impudence to criticise Mr Bennet for his treatment of you. I must say it gives me the most favourable idea of his character. ↗

— Jennifer Paynter

#cute #honor #jane-austen #love #mary-bennet

There is no fear in True Love. It is protective, and never gives a reason to doubt. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#true-love #love

He was being about as protective as a can-opener. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#protectiveness #men

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything. ↗

— P.D. James

#love #protection #responsibility #self-sufficiency #solitude