Protective Barrier Quotes

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

People you don't love can't hurt you.

No wall exists, however thick, that artillery cannot destroy.

Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

People ask what the advantages are of wearing a mask, and the first thing, of course, is the mystery - people don't know exactly what Kane is thinking.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we realized force fields are actually a little bit difficult to create.

Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.

The time has come to expiate the fatal deed of Poland’s partition, and to safeguard a free Germany by raising the bulwark of an independent Poland against the onset of the Asiatics.

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

If you're a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You've been given an incentive to armor up, to consciously screen out the ubiquitous stresses that afflict humanity.

Clothing started as an armor for me. It was one of the ways that I protected myself from the world. It evolved into a form of creative expression.

Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.

The President can't go around in a steel box, as much as the Secret Service would like him to. Protection is an art form, keeping the President available to the public while protecting. Most of the hard protection is done by the police, the perimeter work.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

I was able to hide a lot behind 'Walton,' and found that to be quite useful.

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.

People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.