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  • Armour is light at table. -- George Herbert
  • I've been with Under Armour for a while now. I mean, I love Under Armour. -- Sloane Stephens
  • Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit. -- Joe Abercrombie
  • Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived. -- Jordan Spieth
  • All we're trying to do is change how people think about fitness. And build Under Armour into the biggest brand in the entire land. -- Kevin Plank
  • As foreign as it would be for you to go running in regular shoes, I want it to be just as foreign for you not to work out in your Under Armour. -- Kevin Plank
  • I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone. -- Tom Brady
  • 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
  • Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. -- George R. R. Martin
  • 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
  • Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. -- Jerome K. Jerome
  • A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour. -- Kate Reardon
  • Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rather than lift up ourselves. -- Anthony Carmona
  • 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
  • He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.' -- Terry Pratchett
  • Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species. -- Laura Wade
  • 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
  • I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again. -- Anthony Warlow
  • I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour. -- Nigel Rees
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. -- James Shirley
  • 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
  • It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death. -- Lady Gregory
  • 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
  • You don't have to look like an Under Armour mannequin to be an athlete. A lot of people probably think I'm not athletic or don't even try to work out or whatever, but I do. Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be an athlete. And just because you work out doesn't mean you're going to have a 12-pack. -- Prince Fielder
  • I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.' -- John Lydon
  • There is no armour against fate. -- James Shirley
  • A man in armour is his armour's slave. -- Robert Browning
  • It's absurd to warme one in his armour. -- George Herbert
  • And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armour, -- Kirsten Dunst
  • Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside. -- Diogenes
  • When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat. -- Juvenal
  • Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be. -- William Gurnall
  • As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. -- Leonard Cohen
  • Love that I bear within my breast how is my armour melted how my heart -- Hilda Doolittle
  • To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting. -- C. S. Lewis
  • An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour. -- Eric Maisel
  • You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead. -- Michael Palin
  • Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression! -- Pope Francis
  • Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict. -- John Milton
  • Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece. (Itkovian) -- Steven Erikson
  • As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour -- Daphne Guinness
  • The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul. -- E. M. Forster
  • God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself. -- Francis Frangipane
  • 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
  • All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour. -- George Mason
  • We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God. -- William Gurnall
  • If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea. -- Kate DiCamillo
  • There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment. -- Gerald Kersh
  • 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
  • Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt. -- Dan Abnett
  • 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
  • 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
  • Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie. -- Rick Riordan
  • There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it. -- Danielle Trussoni
  • 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
  • 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
  • The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction. -- John Steinbeck
  • To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous. -- George Orwell
  • Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context. -- Steven Erikson
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