The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.
The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.
When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!
I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude.
Come back with your shield - or on it
How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?
Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
Prayer is a shield to the soul
A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.
We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland, which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.
There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.
God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery
I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.
Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.
Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.
Do not fear so, here is one who would be a blade at your back. A shield across your breast. Here is kin, here is strength to lean upon, to share as you share in need.
See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
God is the shield of the nonviolent.
