Armour Quotes - Page 4

• To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

  George Orwell

  Military, War, Fighting

  George Orwell (1998). “Two wasted years, 1943”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Science, Mind, Would Be

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.123

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• There is no armour against fate.

  James Shirley

  Fate

  'The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses' (1659) act 1, sc. 3

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• And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armour.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Knights, Shining, Needs

  "Kirsten Dunst is Bazaar's May cover star". Interview with Ajesh Patalay, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 2, 2014.

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• I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued. We all have to get our own jobs and make our own money, but staying at home, nurturing, being the mother, cooking — it's a valuable thing my mom created. And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armor. I'm sorry. You need a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. That's why relationships work.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mother, Jobs, Sorry

  "Feminist Dogma Bites Kirsten Dunst" by David Limbaugh, www.newsmax.com. April 18, 2014.

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• When you live in holiness, when you really try to stop sinning, you become braver. You become more courageous, you become a man of your word. You become a man of conviction that you're not willing to sell out and you're really a true knight in shining armour.

  Jim Caviezel

  Men, Knights, Shining

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• Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Mind, Possibility, States

  Joe Abercrombie (2012). “The Heroes: A First Law Novel”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules.

  Don King

  Determination, Frustration, Men

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• They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then—how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Fall, Brave, Age

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• You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

  Michael Palin

  Rubber, Suits, Chickens

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• When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

  Juvenal

  Too Late, Retreat, Late

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• Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.

  Steven Erikson

  Lying, Mean, Destiny

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• Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie.

  Rick Riordan

  Makeup, Clothes, Barbie

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• Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Heart, Sleep, Night

  J. M. Coetzee (2009). “Summertime: Fiction”, Viking Press

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• If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Moving, People

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• I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and an athlete and represent what a woman is at the same time.

  Misty Copeland

  Athlete, Thinking, Example

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece.

  Steven Erikson

  Fashion, Soul, Soldier

  "Memories of Ice". Book by Steven Erikson, December 6, 2001.

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• That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.

  Ted Hughes

  Children, People, Walking Dead

  Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid (2008). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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• As foreign as it would be for you to go running in regular shoes, I want it to be just as foreign for you not to work out in your Under Armour.

  Kevin Plank

  Running, Shoes, Work Out

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• Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived.

  Jordan Spieth

  Athletic, Classic, Kind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.

  Honore de Balzac

  Past, Icy, Snuff

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• How beautiful it is for a man to die
  Upon the walls of Zion! to be called
  Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel,
  To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Beautiful, Death, Wall

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1868). “The Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Humorous”, p.110

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• Armour is light at table.

  George Herbert

  Light, Tables

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.272

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