Quotes About Armor

I take refuge in the Buddha," that means I take refuge in the courage and the potential of fearlessness, of removing all the armor that covers this awakeness of mine. I am awake; I will spend my life taking this armor off. Nobody else can take it off because nobody else knows where all the little locks are, nobody else knows where it's sewed up tight, where it's going to take a lot of work to get that particular iron thread untied.

This is the path we take in cultivating joy: learning not to armor our basic goodness, learning to appreciate what we have. Most of the time we don't do this. Rather than appreciate where we are, we continually struggle and nurture our dissatisfaction. It's like trying to get the flowers to grow by pouring cement on the garden.

Taking refuge in the buddha means that you are willing to spend your life acknowledging or reconnecting with your awakeness, learning that every time you meet the dragon you take off more armor, particularly the armor that covers your heart.

Pero bajo la dureza de esta armadura, se oculta la terneza de una genuina tristeza

Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

Then the man himself appeared. Carter Gray was looking chunkier than usual. From his sniper's post Stone instantly discerned why: body armor. That didn't bother Stone in the slightest since, as he'd told Finn, he always aimed for the head. People couldn't survive without a brain. Although it did seem that more than a few people in Washington managed to do so quite nicely.

That they lack, for if their heads had any intellectual armour they could never wear such heavy headpieces

What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Up until now, her makeup and mini-skirt had served as a sort of armour. And ocne you fitted yourself out with armour like that it was hard to take off.

pikemen were too poor for mail. We went in boiled leather which we hardened by prayer. We wore other men's boots.

We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to removes it.

We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it." — "I think of his riddle. How do people like us take off our armor? One piece at a time.

We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it.

We have lived in our armour for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it.

Carapaces focused on their own shadows, using them to soar through the air on shadow wings or armor themselves. Puppeteers sent their shadows to do things in secret—in Charlie's experience, largely the kind of foul shit no one wanted to talk about. And the masks weren't much better, a bunch of creeps and mystics intent on unraveling the secrets of the universe, no matter who it hurt.

she still wears her arrogance like armour...

A full-length suit of fantastic armor, made of the blue metal called nthium, stood in one corner. When the Illusionist addressed it the metal creature creaked into life and motion. "Hail, master!" boomed a hoarse voice from within the empty helm.

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

When I was deployed, I could feel a full spectrum of American power keeping me safe. And yes, that was the armor on my vehicle; yes, it was the armor on my body; but it was also the armor of some level of American moral authority.

She felt like a child clad in the armour of an adult. She was perplexed at the respect she received from other adults; she expected them to see through her disguise at any moment, revealing her as an empress with no clothes. She needed someone to love and protect her from the world. She desperately sought closeness, but when someone came too close, she ran.

The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

This is the path we take in cultivating joy: learning not to armor our basic goodness, learning to appreciate what we have.