A Quote by Robert Burns

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

Robert Burns

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Armor Heavy More Protects Suspicion Than Weight

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Robert Burns
Scottish - Poet
January 25, 1759 - July 21, 1796

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

Celeste Holm

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

Mata Amritanandamayi

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

Octavia Butler

I think the more experience I have working on films, the more I can shed that character rather than carrying around that heavy weight.

Haley Bennett

Every time someone starts talking about weight, it takes away from the fight. No one is born at that weight. We grew into that weight. It is all about the challenge, more so than the weight.

Evander Holyfield

But what's worth more than gold?" "Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?

Terry Pratchett

It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is real. It is a weight you have to carry around. Each failure to become, to be, is a weight. Each state you could inhabit is a burden as heavy as any physical weight, but more so, because it weighs on your soul. It is the ghost of your possibilities hanging around your neck, an invisible albatros, potentials unknowingly murdered.

Ben Okri

With all the lead tape, my racquet is heavier than the model you're going to find off the rack. It's got most of its weight in the throat of the racquet; it's not too head-heavy. I don't like the feeling of a racquet that's so head-heavy I can't maneuver it around so well.

Kevin Anderson

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

Nikolai Berdyaev

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

Annie Leibovitz

My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.

Yohji Yamamoto

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

Mark Twain

Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.