#protecting

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#critic #exposing #flat #painting #protecting

I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life. Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity. ↗

— Fred Durst

#bring #characters #definitely #feelings #harder

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#another #attack #fbi #now #principal

Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#american #american interests #closely #cooperate #eyes

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority. ↗

— Mel Carnahan

#governors #highest #highest priority #nation #preserving

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#build #democracy #die #every #home

This president has said this has to be a priority for our nation, protecting our food supply from terrorist acts, so he continues to provide the funding that is necessary. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#continues #food #food supply #funding #nation

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#encouragement #enforcement #even #federal #federal law

Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman. ↗

— Curtis Sliwa

#asking #block #crime #day #every

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority. ↗

— David Suzuki

#economic #even #grandchildren #health #make