Top 100 Armour's Quotes
#2. But if the world measures a refugee according to the worst story, we will always excuse human suffering, saying it is not yet as bad as someone else's.
Victoria Armour-Hileman
#5. Scars are good. Right, Helmud? It's the body's way of making armour.
Julianna Baggott
#6. ...and he was struck again by the religious revernce of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress.
'It's their armour,' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and their defiance of it.
Edith Wharton
#7. 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
#8. Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.
Richard Armour
#9. (Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.
Richard Armour
#10. If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!
Terry Pratchett
#12. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Michel Houellebecq
#13. Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.
Richard Armour
#14. Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.
J. Ogden Armour
#15. 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
#16. Melville died in New York on September 28, 1891, blissfully unaware that, in the years to come, so many people would leave the hyphen out of Moby-Dick.
Richard Armour
#17. 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
#18. 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
#20. "Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.
Richard Armour
#21. Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rather than lift up ourselves.
Anthony Carmona
#22. He had been quite unprepared for this particular blow, striking under every conceivable kind of armour, and for some minutes he could hardly bear the pain, but sat there blinking in the sun. 'Christ,' he said at last. 'Another day.
Patrick O'Brian
#23. In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.
Bram Stoker
#24. I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Robert Burns
#25. The armour of others is too wide, or too strait for us; it falls off us, or it weighs us down.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#26. When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.
Richard Armour
#27. She wears those old fashioned pj's like body armour. Going to bed these days is like wresting with Kevlar.
Poppet
#28. I miss my mattress when I am gone; It's one thing I've made an impression on.
Richard Armour
#29. Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.
Eva Green
#30. At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.
M. John Harrison
#31. The mechanic had laid out two suits of their Martian-made light combat armour, a number of rifles and shotguns, and stacks of ammunition and explosives.
"What," Holden said, "is all this?"
"You said to gear up for the drop."
"I meant, like, underwear and toothbrushes.
James S.A. Corey
#32. Real Madrid are like a rabbit in the glare of the headlights in the face of Manchester United's attacks. But this rabbit comes with a suit of armour in the shape of two precious away goals.
George Hamilton
#33. G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.
Richard Armour
#34. The truly wise man is the one who can keep external events from changing him in any way. To do this, he covers himself with an armour of realities closer to him than the world's facts and through which the facts, modified accordingly, reach him.
Fernando Pessoa
#35. It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.
Richard Armour
#36. 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
#37. I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.
Richard Armour
#38. My favourite designers always create a strong silhouette, like McQueen and Tom Ford and Alaia. I like structured things that you can throw on, and it's almost like armour, and you're, like, ready for the day.
Liberty Ross
#39. Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient's mind, awaiting his awakening.
Vironika Tugaleva
#40. If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.
Richard Armour
#41. You're drunk."
"That's right I am. I'm fifty-three and I'm as wild as a Welshman with a leek up his arse. Fifty-three. Old slag Gail. What right has she to poke her nose into your shining armour? That's what you're thinking isn't it honey?
Jeanette Winterson
#42. It's amazing how just dressing differently can affect your influence; dress like a beggar and your assumed poverty gains you looks of contempt; dress in gold-lined robes and people are more willing to accommodate you; sport armour and you look strong, dutiful, and prepared.
A.J. Darkholme
#43. This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.
Richard Armour
#44. We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.
C.S. Lewis
#45. I'm not getting much penetration here!" Gibbs yelled.
"Aim for an open mouth!" Walsh barked. "It's their weakest point! When you empty the cartridge, load armour piercing rounds!"
Alan shouted, "For the record, I'm very uncomfortable firing ballistics inside a space ship!
Jennifer Foehner Wells
#46. To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.
C.S. Lewis
#47. That naked childlike surrender, before she rose to assume an adult's armour, seemed first thing this morning like a essential from which she was banished.
Ian McEwan
#48. My day-old son is plenty scrawny, his mouth is wide with screams, or yawny; His ears seem larger than he's needing, His nose is flat, his chin's receding. His skin is very, very red, He has no hair upon his head, And yet I'm proud as proud can be, To hear you say he looks like me.
Richard Armour
#49. I was making a different sort of heart, one that was black, one that was protected by thorns, by bats, by raven's wings, by sorrow, by my aloneness, my armour
Alice Hoffman
#50. Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.
Richard Armour
#51. There's good things about wearing armour. One is that if your horse bounces you through deep brush, all that happens is that you get pine-needles in your visor.
Christian Cameron
#52. I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.
Nick Clegg
#53. There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment
Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.
Richard Armour
#54. The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.
Tommy Armour
#55. Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece. (Itkovian)
Steven Erikson
#56. Just knock hell out of it with your right hand.
Tommy Armour
#58. I laughed. So, let me get this straight. You slayed the dragon, jumped over the moat, climbed the tower of the evil King's castle, saved the princes, and rode off with her into sunset aka Shadow land. Why, you're my knight in shining armour.
Jayde Scott
#59. I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
Samantha Fox
#60. Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.
Glenda Millard
#61. In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
William Gurnall
#62. Her suffering was her armour. Gradually it became her skin. Then she could not take it off.
Jeanette Winterson
#63. Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife.
Richard Armour
#64. He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that...victory deserved the best-looking armour.
Xenophon
#65. Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.
Karen Quan
#66. You would do well to turn from Chapter XXXVI to Chapter CXXXIII without further delay, thus saving nearly a hundred chapters without anybody's knowing the difference if you keep quiet. After all, Ahab isn't the only one entitled to be a skipper.
Richard Armour
#67. There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.
J. Ogden Armour
#68. there is no better looking glass than an old friend.
Philip Armour
#69. My lord, it is Patroclus, he is dead, his armour taken.. Hector is to blame.' There was a chilling silence, then a sudden intake of breath. Then a cry, low rising, increasing, then torn out of him, turned out of the depth of Hades... For Achilles, the only word 'Patroclus.
Byrne Fone
#70. Fairytales cleanse and sanitise what were once true stories. In fairytales, knights are chivalrous, clean-shaven and wear shining armour - when in truth they were swarthy, filthy rapists and thugs. Castles are bright and gay when in truth they were grim fortresses.
Matthew Reilly
#71. Shake and shake the catsup bottle. None will come, and then a lot'll.
Richard Armour
#72. Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
Richard Armour
#73. I don't know
what I'm feeling. Existing like I'm on auto pilot.
I've put my Armour on now. Limiting everything getting
in but also not letting anything out.
Tina J. Richardson
#74. A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
Richard Armour
#75. The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.
Thomas Campion
#76. The author apologizes for being unable to afford a ghost writer, which explains the lack of a distinctive prose style.
Richard Armour
#77. Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds.
Richard Armour
#78. The Soviet Knight is dying inside his armour. He is a secondary power like you British. He can start a war but cannot continue one and cannot win one. Believe me.
John Le Carre
#79. All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea.
Mark Strong
#80. Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived.
Jordan Spieth
#82. Scott calls Bois-Guilbert "an unprincipled voluptuary," which is hard to improve on.
Richard Armour
#83. A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
Kate Reardon
#84. And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.
Michael Ondaatje
#85. Irony is a gift of the gods, the most subtle of all the modes of speech. It is an armour and a weapon; it is a philosophy and a perpetual entertainment; it is food for the hungry of wit and drink to those thirsting for laughter ...
W. Somerset Maugham
#87. Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.
Richard Armour
#88. Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
Diogenes
#89. Death and dying makes us into children once again, in truth, one last time, there in our final wailing cries. More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood.
Steven Erikson
#90. There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.
Philip Danforth Armour
#91. I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.
Daphne Guinness
#92. Love that I bear
within my breast
how is my armour melted
how my heart
Hilda Doolittle
#93. If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.
Richard Armour
#94. [Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.
Richard Armour
#95. Before Under Armour, the only choices you had were to wear a short-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the summer or a long-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the winter. Why not make a better piece of equipment for underneath the shoulder pads?
Kevin Plank
#96. He had died for his beliefs; chief among them was the very Hugglestonian one that bravery could replace armour, and that Klatchians would turn and run if you shouted loud enough.
Terry Pratchett
#97. In big battle scenes, like 'King Arthur', you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they're not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you'll find some poor little sod, who didn't want to be there, anyway, with his head split.
Michael Foreman
#98. You are my armour and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for.
Alice Hoffman
#99. When I'm not doing the show, and the work has stopped, I walk into a restaurant and I'm shy; yet, when I'm in the show, when people come up with their phones and want to take my picture, I can handle it because it's almost like I'm wearing an armour.
Anthony Warlow
#100. May your morning be a beautiful one, with the sun shining on your soldier's armour, for in the afternoon I will defeat you.
Paulo Coelho
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