Top 21 Armoured Quotes
#1. The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.
Franz Halder
#2. You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.'
'Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?'
'It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance.
Agatha Christie
#3. Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.
Letitia Baldrige
#4. If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.
Antony Beevor
#5. From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known!
[While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.]
William M. Fowler
#6. Nowadays you have to go pretty far south in Italy before you encounter the widespread belief that any foreign girl is a whore unless her father and two brothers drive her around in an armoured car.
Clive James
#8. The sky can never be frozen
because its vastness has chosen
all warmth of our lives as we look above
with unbreakable hearts armoured in love
Munia Khan
#9. Time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured and have learnt how to bear hurt, we tread more carefully. Nowadays
Julian Barnes
#10. Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#11. In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
Kate Adie
#12. Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
James Buchan
#13. As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: 'Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!'
I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality.
Tahir Shah
#14. It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same
Irvine Welsh
#15. One may come armoured, Invinsible. His will immobile meets the mobile hour. The world blows cannot bend this Victor Head. Calm and sure are his steps in the growing night. The goal recedes, he hurries not his pace. He asks from no help from the inferior Gods. His eyes are fixed on the immutable aim.
Sri Aurobindo
#16. Therapy takes us backward into a forgotten past, but this was not a safe and secure time, else we would not have emerged from it scarred by battle wounds and armoured in self-defense.
Alexander Lowen
#17. Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn't want to trade places.
Darren Hardy
#18. As I princessed in the tower, he knight-in-shining-armoured up the drive.
John Harding
#19. Whatever comes and goes, is not reality. See the event as event only. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#20. All creatures on Earth have been hammered on the anvil of its gravity, for example, which influences size and morphology. So I am sceptical about finding armoured reptiles who can fly and spout flames.
Terry Pratchett
