Adam Smith Quotes

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

No one has got close enough to use or abuse me, and even if they did, I wouldn't get too emotional about it. The only thing I ever get emotional about is my family. I am kind to everyone but I trust no one. That keeps me from getting hurt.

I choose to live without hope to protect myself from disappointment. It's very effective!

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom, boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!

The first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself

I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.

I did have an emo phase. It was sort of like armor for me.

I have created a shell around me, in the good and the bad moments.

If a man puts a lion's family in jeopardy, what would it do? Would it enjoy fighting? Of course it wouldn't, but it's going to fight.

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

My unhappiness protects me from life.

If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.

Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.

Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.

Of course, then you nearly crushed to death in front of my eyes. Later I thought of a perfectly good excuse for why I acted at that moment - because if I hadn't saved you, if your blood had been spilled there in front of me, I don't think I could have stopped myself from exposing us for what we are. But I only thought of that excuse later. At the time, all I could think was, 'Not her.

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!