Armor Quotes - Page 8

• Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Suits Of Armor, Thorns, Misanthropy

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• When you cast somebody you cast them not only for... I look for an inherent kind of quality. You are going to be shooting 14 hour days and you are going to be tired. You are going to not necessarily be able to conjure armor or a façade every single moment.

  David Fincher

  Single Mom, Tired, Quality

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

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• As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. Since the Iraq conflict began, the Army has been pressing ahead to produce the armor necessary at a rate that they believe - it's a greatly expanded rate from what existed previously, but a rate that they believe is the rate that is all that can be accomplished at this moment.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Believe, Army

  "Troops put Rumsfeld in the hot seat". Donald Rumsfeld's speech at the town hall meeting with U.S. troops at Camp Buehring in Kuwait, edition.cnn.com. December 8, 2004.

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• My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.

  Frank Miller

  Dirty, Hero, Knights

  "Frank Miller: I Stole From The Best!". COMICDOM interview, January 22, 2006.

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• All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

  David Weber

  Children, Men, Evil

  David Weber (2008). “Off Armageddon Reef”, p.250, Macmillan

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• He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Soul, Atheism, Deities

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• The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Education, Mind

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• A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Powerful

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• Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

  Jean Rhys

  Home, Today, Careful

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• The idea that Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft) has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place...

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Humor, Technology

  "Biting back at Microsoft" by Paul Mooney, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2001.

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• The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They are one and the same, a compilation of a singular being. It is in the harmony of these three-body, mind, and heart- that we find spirit. ... Spirit. In every language in all the Realms, surface and Underdark, in every time and every place, the word has a ring of strength and determination. It is the hero's strength, the mother's resilience, and the poor man's armor. It cannot be broken, and it cannot be taken away.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Mother, Determination, Taken

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Exile: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.224, Wizards of the Coast

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• In a clutch or a corner, I tend to make a weapon out of what is near at hand. That can be anything from a crowbar to a cat, though if I had a choice, I would prefer an angry cat, which I have found to be more effective than a crowbar. Although weaponless, I left the house by the back door, with two chocolate-pumpkin cookies. It's a tough world out there, and a man has to armor himself against it however he can. ~Odd Thomas

  Dean Koontz

  Cat, Men, Doors

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.902, Bantam

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• Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Names, Mind, Phrases

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.241

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• Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Clothes, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.184, Library of America

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• The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Light, Childhood

  "Parerga und Paralipomena II". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Chapter XXIV, 1851.

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• As a kid, I dreamed of a knight in shining armor coming to rescue me. Now, I just dream of equal pay for equal work.

  Ingrid Weir

  Dream, Kids, Knights

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• Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America.

  Florence King

  America, Quirky, Agoraphobia

  Florence King (1982). “When sisterhood was in flower”, Viking Pr

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• Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.

  Peter Dinklage

  Growing Up, Dark, People

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• My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.

  Courtney Summers

  Girl, Sports, Dad

  Courtney Summers (2015). “All the Rage”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• 'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

  Brené Brown

  Crazy, Feelings, Needs

  "Exhaustion is not a status symbol" by Lillian Cunningham, www.washingtonpost.com. October 3, 2012.

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• The military is focusing only on the short run costs. If they don't provide appropriate body armor, they save some money today, but the healthcare cost is going to be the future for some other president down the line. I view that as both fiscally and morally irresponsible.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Running, Military, Views

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Drama, Moving, Epic

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Nice, Glasses, Pounds

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• 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.

  John Olver

  Military, War, Body

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• Prayer plumes the wings of God's young eaglets so that they may learn to mount above the clouds. Prayer brings inner strength to God's warriors and sends them forth to spiritual battle with their muscles firm and their armor in place.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Prayer, Warrior

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “The Power of Prayer in a Believer's Life”, p.94, YWAM Publishing

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