Armour Quotes

• Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

  Richard Armour

  Years, Long, Greed

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• That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.

  Richard Armour

  Goodbye, Money, Good Bye

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• It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

  Richard Armour

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Now And Then

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• Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

  Richard Armour

  Beauty, Beautiful, People

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• I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

  Richard Armour

  Telephones, Known, Hang Ups

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• When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.

  Richard Armour

  Ice Cream, Helping, Sometimes

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• Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

  Richard Armour

  Teacher, Retirement, Tired

  Richard Armour (1976). “Going Like Sixty: A Lighthearted Look at the Later Years”

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• In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

  Richard Armour

  Causes, Corny, Trouble

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• Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

  Richard Armour

  Children, Husband, Numbers

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• Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

  Richard Armour

  Voice, People, Mind

  Richard Armour (1961). “A Safari Into Satire”

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• I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.

  Jennifer Aniston

  World, Kind, Paranoid

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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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• If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must sleep with helmet and breastplate buckled on, for the arch-deceiver will seize our first unguarded hour to make us his prey. The Lord keep us watchful in all seasons, and give us a final escape from the jaw of the lion and the paw of the bear.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, War, Sleep

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.209, Discovery House

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

  Juvenal

  Too Late, Retreat, Late

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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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• 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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