Armor Quotations

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

I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.

Who needs a bullet piercing, armor piercing bullet to go hunting? Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting? You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Body armor is meant to fit snug to the body to stop shrapnel and absorb a bullet's impact. Armor designed for a boxier male frame does not fit properly on the overwhelming majority of females, who have a very different stature and body type than their male counterparts.

I am an armor officer. I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s. It's still a magnificent tank, and we designed it for the Cold War and Central Europe.

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause is stronger than all the hosts of error

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.

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

Everybody has a bit of body armor they wear to protect themselves, and love is about trying to break it down. You have to see who a person really is and connect with her to break that armor.

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

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.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

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

I drink a lot of Body Armor - it's a sports drink. It offers great hydration, and it's the best before/after drink for workouts. Orange mango is my favorite. Strawberry banana is a close second.

You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.

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.

A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone's body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest.

We strip them down to bare bones and add the armor material and the protected glass and then put them back together. We put them together so that you can't tell that they're armored at first glance.

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.

When we were growing up in Philadelphia, she would drop us off at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on weekends, ... I was enamored of the armor collection of knights and weapons.

You don't know what the kinks in the armor are until you see him play more. You didn't see the vulnerability in that ballgame.

vehicles operating without appropriate armor in areas outside of protected compounds.

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

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

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

As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future.

We did not have to fight this war, and we did not have to go to war when we did. We could have waited until we had more safe body armor and we chose not to wait.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

Your choice of armor was your intellect.

Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.

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.

We're constantly exposed to bacteria and our bodies are always fighting off invasions. When a piece of our body's armor has a kink in it, that's when a virus breaks through.

Of course our background is in motor sports so we have years of experience crashing cars into the wall at Indianapolis and other places. So we've tried to take our motor sports approach into the body armor field with some very different ideas.

My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth.

I grew up like Athena - covered with playing cards instead of armor - and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.

We try to help veterans who are having trouble getting benefits. We're concerned about troops sent to Iraq without oil to lubricate their guns or correct body armor for their vehicles.

Going back to the Middle Ages, developing armor has involved a constant balance between the need for protection and the need for comfort, flexibility and light weight.

He showed the way out of our despair, and gave us the emotional armor to get up every day and get on with our lives. He led by emotion, not just by words and actions.

Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing.

Our goal is to continue providing the American soldier with the best, most protective body armor in the world. We are working with soldiers, commanders, the medical community and industry to continue these improvements while ensuring the safety of our soldiers.

Maybe that is the first chink in the armor of the uptrend of crude oil prices,

We now know that the American people were given inaccurate information about the reasons for invading Iraq. We now know that our troops in Iraq were not given the best body armor or the best intelligence.

That was a sign of a chink in our armor and nobody really realized it. We had a winning record at that point and we thought we didn't have a problem even though we got blown out. We really did, though.

In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.

The criminal indictment of Tom DeLay is the first chink in the armor of corruption that has so clouded, consumed and controlled the Republican majority over the past few years,

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

...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

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

We have continued to pound away on the garrisons and continued to take out vehicular storage areas, maintenance areas, support buildings, barracks, and primarily where they have some of their armor and mechanized units and their heavier equipment and heavier ammunition,

We don't want to do anything that will take people out of the game experience. We don't want to create armor that has the Nike swoosh or you have to drink Coke for health. Our subscribers would freak out.

We don't want to do anything that will take people out of the game experience, ... We don't want to create armor that has the Nike swoosh or you have to drink Coke for health. Our subscribers would freak out.

We will need other contractors, obviously, to produce the body armor in the quantities that we need in the quick amount of time that we need. So we are moving with dispatch.

Well, how hard is that to get? ... There are a lot of guys wearing body armor who haven't been injured in years.

The reason people wear helmets and the reason people wear body armor is so they don't get shot,

We certainly found some kinks in our armor tonight. It was a typical Southeastern Conference game and a typical Georgia-South Carolina game.

Black Tigers are the self-protective armor of our race, ... They are the men of flame who can destroy the enemy's armed strength.

did everything from provide hazard pay for our troops in Iraq to body armor for our troops in Iraq. ... Now, that's the kind of record that the American people need to know about.

During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were ""just going down to the corner.

The TOW system has provided the Army with a clear advantage on the battlefield during numerous engagements against all armor vehicles, fortifications and reinforced bunkers throughout Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. This contract enables Raytheon to deliver the continued support that the Army needs to effectively deploy these systems and achieve mission success.

I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.

Rarely do the words 'flexible' and 'armor' get used in the same sentence, but this new technology has the potential to unlock entirely new and better solutions that will leapfrog to the next generation of armor and other lifesaving equipment.

They should be as concerned with the soldiers in the field as they are with a cartoon. Maybe they should provide the body armor soldiers need to help avoid the sort of injury shown in the cartoon.

They're very dangerous. If they're out there night hunting, they're going to have a firearm. Most of them are using high-powered rifles, and a high-powered rifle can't be stopped by the body armor we wear.

They penetrate the armor of an M1 Abrams tank. They're shape charges. They go through anything, and they are very lethal.

There is, obviously, sufficient body armor for every deployed service member.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell' places an unnecessary burden on American taxpayers by asking them to fund a discriminatory law that hurts military readiness. The choice is clear: spend $364 million on firing patriotic Americans or spend the same amount on three dozen Blackhawk helicopters, 4,000 sidewinder missiles, or enough body armor vests to outfit the entire American fighting force in Iraq. Our priority should always be defense and national security. Congress should repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' immediately and fund real priorities in the war on terror.

The body armor that the services are issuing to deployed service members is the best body armor available.

The best armor is to keep out of range

Sleep, eat, train, fight -- co-located units that are with the infantry and the armor are right there, very close. You have other support units that also support infantry and the armor, but co-location is the difference between 20 feet and 20 miles.

In districts it's going to come down to defense, it's as simple as that. We definitely have some chinks in our armor that we have to get fixed, but you have to remember that even though we're 17 games into the season, these are still high school kids and we still have to coach. You just hope they get it soon.

I like playing characters that have a prickly armor because when you start to see the cracks and some heart come out, it gives the audience something to look forward to.

I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.

agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America ...

We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September and proposed fundamental — supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel.

If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.

Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used against you

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

and I have mastered the speed and strength which is the armor of the world.

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

A sense of humor is needed armor.

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!

If it is humid out, I will not put body armor on him. I'm sure this has happened before where a dog wore a vest and was injured.

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

If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle.

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.

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.

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.

Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff.

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

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.

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.

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

Oh, by the way, is this your armor? (Grace) It is, or was. (Julian) Can we keep it? (Grace) If you like. Why? (Julian) ’Cause, ooo baby, you are one hot tamale in that getup. This outfit alone will get you laid at least four or five times a day. (Grace)

We’re multigenerational Squires. (Carl) Which means what? You prance around with tinfoil armor and plastic swords pretending to be knights? (Nick)

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

With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.