Quotes About Armor
I dried my tears, and armed my fears With ten-thousand shields and spears
~ William Blake
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METAPHOR: A tightly fitting suit of metal, generally tin, which entirely encloses the wearer, both impeding free movement and preventing emotional expression and/or social contact.
~ Chris Ware
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How simple and natural were her words, and how likely that she was simply sleepy! She felt herself clad in an impenetrable armor of falsehood. She felt that some unseen force had come to her aid and was supporting her.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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Sometimes he looked at her and thought, Gosh, I wonder what's underneath all that anger, all that hard glossy armor? Maybe there's just an innocent, wounded little girl in there who wants to come out and play and be loved and get happy. But now he wondered if maybe that little girl was long gone, or if she'd ever been there at all. What was under all that armor, all that anger? More anger, and more armor. Anger and armor, all the way down.
~ Lev Grossman
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She strode the earth clad in the invisible armor of their virtual companionship.
~ Lev Grossman
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What was under all that armor, all that anger? More anger, and more armor. Anger and armor, all the way down.
~ Lev Grossman
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Farmers tend to breathe out nastier germs, to own better weapons and armor, to own more-powerful technology in general, and to live under centralized governments with literate elites better able to wage wars of conquest.
~ Jared Diamond
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Her suffering was her armour. Gradually it became her skin. Then she could not take it off.
~ Jeanette Winterson
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The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.
~ Condoleezza Rice
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The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
~ William Jennings Bryan
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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
~ William Jennings Bryan
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I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.
~ Ernst Zundel
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I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.
~ Condoleezza Rice
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The more worried you are about failure, the heavier the armor you put on. But armor always has a side effect of reduced mobility. The overarmored organization has lost the ability to move and move quickly. When this happens, standard process is the cause of lost mobility. It is, however, not the root cause. The root cause is fear.
~ Tom DeMarco
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As defense against failure, standard process is a kind of armor. The more worried you are about failure, the heavier the armor you put on. But armor always has a side effect of reduced mobility.
~ Tom DeMarco
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The Shy Hunter is terrified that others will destroy the truth within his heart, Rose said, And so the Shy Hunter armours himself ... thus armoured, he watches and waits and studies the world meticulously, hunting the world for prey ... Prey not in the sense of devouring or murder, Rose said, But prey in the sense of hunting for sore truths within another human heart.
~ Tom Spanbauer
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Han: "Someone ought to make armor out of those bugs." Leia: "Han! They're sentient beings!" Han: "Fair is fair. If they get to wear it, so should we." - Han and Leia Solo
~ Troy Denning
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Description: thick, armored brown scales, sometimes with amber and gold underscales; large, flat heads with nostrils on top of the snout Abilities: can breathe fire (if warm enough), hold their breath for up to an hour, blend into large mud puddles; usually very strong Queen: Queen Moorhen Alliances: currently allied with Burn and the SkyWings in the great war
~ Tui T. Sutherland
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Description: thick, armored brown scales, sometimes with amber and gold underscales; large, flat heads with nostrils on top of the snout Abilities: can breathe fire (if warm enough), hold their breath for up to an hour, blend into large mud puddles; usually very strong Queen: Queen Moorhen
~ Tui T. Sutherland
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Description: thick, armored brown
~ Tui T. Sutherland
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He had been quite unprepared for this particular blow, striking under every conceivable kind of armour, and for some minutes he could hardly bear the pain, but sat there blinking in the sun. 'Christ,' he said at last. 'Another day.
~ Patrick O'Brian
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If you stay friendly with monsters you can find cracks in their armor to exploit. Shut them out and they can kill you without a second thought. I reminded myself of this over and over.
~ Paul Rusesabagina
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We should live each and every day with the certainty that this armor will protect us from danger, and then we will no longer be bound to the duality of existence. We have to find a middle path, where there is neither joy nor suffering, only profound peace.
~ Paulo Coelho
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When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.
~ Pema Chodron
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