Alexander McQueen
Fashion Designer
"It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing."
Armor quotes
Armor
91 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Kristin Hannah
Author
"Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob."
Stephen King
Author
"Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor"
Florence King
Author
"Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America."
Francis Bacon
Philosopher, Statesman
"The best armor is to keep out of gunshot."
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"Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show."
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"As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future."
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"My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!"
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"Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used against you"
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"You are exactly like Jesus when you are wearing his armor."
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"The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it."
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"Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong."
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"There is no armor against fate."
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"When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart."
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"I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor."
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"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."
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"Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff."
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"I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am."
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"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason."
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"I can't face losin' ya, Riley. Yer all I got left in this world.” That brutal honesty again. He'd peeled away more armor, and this time he'd exposed his heart."
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"With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor."
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"Using your car as a weapon and impenetrable armor."
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"Philosophers are only men in armor after all."
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"The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for all is to be derived rather from co-operation than from strife. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence."
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"A man in armor is his armor's slave."
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