Best 122 quotes in «armor quotes» category

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited.

Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.

Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.

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

Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.

He shone all over. Only Magnus, Simon thought resignedly, would have access to sequined battle armor.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor.

I'm more insecure than I ever let anyone know, sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.

I'll show them 'love is worthless,'" Silena Beauregard grumbled as she strapped on her armor. "I'll pulverize them!

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

It's a little uncomfortable doing love scenes in armor, but, you know, when the heat's on, the heat's on.

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.

It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.

I've been wearing kimono for several years, and armor.

It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.

it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.

I was thinking about the armor, personally. I think it would go great in my hometown. I don't know. I'm not sure. Hopefully.

Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

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.

Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

Occupation is the armor of the soul.

So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.

Sometimes it made him [Degas] furious that he could not find a chink in my armor, and there would be months when we just could not see each other, and then something I painted would bring us together again.

Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.

Satan never wastes a fiery dart by aiming at a spot covered by armor. The bull's eye is located dead center in our inconsistency. That's where the enemy plans to bring us down.

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor

Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.

Take off your armor; dare to be vulnerable, dare to unwrap yourself, and dare yourself to be yourself.

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

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

The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.