#armor

Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#adapted #armor #body #consisting #continued

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

— Robert Burns

#heavy #impedes #more #protects #suspicion

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. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#always #armor #better #captive #infatuated

Men, we don't need you to be a knight in shining armor. We just need you to be a little bit brave, just a little bit. And some of them are, and that's what he does. ↗

— Virginia Madsen

#bit #brave #does #just #knight

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. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

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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. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#fitting #fitting in #i #know #lot

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time. ↗

— Frank Miller

#best #blood #deny #dirty #does

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence. ↗

— John Olver

#armor #body #criminal #incompetence #level

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. ↗

— John Olver

#avoided #been #body #casualties #could

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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