#rote

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#job #painful #protect #serves #thinking

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#end #harm #intuitive #power #protect

Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy. ↗

— Fred Upton

#countries #economy #emissions #environment #environmental

Stop hiding condoms in my stuff. It's like some twisted Easter egg hunt in there. ↗

— Alyxandra Harvey

#funny #lucy #over-protective #funny

He crosses the front room, which he calls his study, and comes down the staircase. The stairs turn a corner; they are narrow and steep. You can touch both handrails with your elbows, and you have to bend your head, even if, like George, you are only five eight. This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel lonely. Nevertheless. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#loss #protection #home

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning! ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#dissent #inspiration #protest #success #inspirational

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them. ↗

— Alan Clark

#better #help #how #know #more

I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ↗

— James Baldwin

#patriotism #protest #love

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

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self. ↗

— Jerzy Kosiński

#identity #isolation #love #lovers #relationships