With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo.
it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
He shone all over. Only Magnus, Simon thought resignedly, would have access to sequined battle armor.
The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.
Women do not need a knight in shining armor or a Prince Charming to come to their rescue.
To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend.
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material.
Clothing shouldn't be a societal shackle. It should be art and truth and a way for us to show the world what we want out of it. It's environmental armor.
No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.
Arise, soldiers of Christ, throw away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.
You've got soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Division who are going every day on operations and they don't all have what is considered to be the gold standard in armor
I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
We’re multigenerational Squires. (Carl) Which means what? You prance around with tinfoil armor and plastic swords pretending to be knights? (Nick)
To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.
Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.
You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.
The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.
Clothing started as an armor for me. It was one of the ways that I protected myself from the world. It evolved into a form of creative expression.
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.
Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.
As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future.
I'm no missionary, and I can't wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am.
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.
Women love firefighters so much because it’s like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.
I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.
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.
A guy in Greek armor drew his sword and charged, but slipped in a puddle of pina colada.
The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.
I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.
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.
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.
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.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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.
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .
Lynet scowled. "I’m just so tired of young knights wearing their father’s armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.
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.
Being naked makes me feel vulnerable. Clothes are quite the armor.
It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.
In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.
He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.
the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.
I feel really trapped as a comedian - someone who is supposed to be funny and light, making jokes all the time. But I'm actually in this inauthentic armor.
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.
'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.
Am I going to have to carry you? If so, it would complete my badass knight-in-shining-armor act with you today.
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!
Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.
The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
How do we expect change to occur if we are not willing to put on the whole armor of God and fight injustice wherever it raises its ugly head?
In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.
When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.
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