Top 100 Armand Quotes
#1. His eyes closed for a split second and he sank against Armand's shoulder, feeling Armand's hand on his back. Far away he heard Armand's voice: What do I do with you, my beloved? Especially now, when I myself am so afraid.
Anne Rice
#2. Chief Superintendent Arnot might hold power, but Armand Gamache was the more powerful man.
Louise Penny
#3. Armand Gamache found murderers by following the trail of rancid emotions. Beside
Louise Penny
#4. Armand Gamache wondered whether CC de Poitiers was at that very moment trying to explain herself to a perplexed God and two very angry seals.
Louise Penny
#5. Armand Gamache had seen the worst. But he'd also seen the best. Often in the same person.
Louise Penny
#6. I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.
Armie Hammer
#7. Do you know, Armand, I can't remember the last time I felt safe." "I know what you mean," said Gamache. "It feels as though this has been going on forever." "No, I don't mean just this mess. I mean all my life.
Louise Penny
#8. For Armand Gamache knew what not-nice was. He knew what cruelty, despair, horror were. And he knew what a forgotten, and precious quality 'nice'was.
Louise Penny
#9. You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.
Anne Rice
#10. Well Ashley, my dear, there is time for everything," was Armand's wise counsel to his daughter. "In time, Justin will warm up to you. Just be patient." (Chapter 2)
Ryanne Salve
#11. Armand keeps the island of Manhattan safe for them - Louis, Armand, and two young blood drinkers, Benjamin and Sybelle, and whoever else joins them in their palatial digs on the Upper East Side.
Anne Rice
#12. Good hearts get hurt. Good hearts get broken, Armand. And then they lash out.
Louise Penny
#13. You'll dine with us, Comte? And you, Anthony?"
"I trespass on your hospitality!" Armand protested.
"Devil a bit, man!" said Rupert. "It's Avon's hospitality you trespass on, and our patience.
Georgette Heyer
#14. If I kiss you now," he whispered as if he'd read her mind....
"I won't be able to stop there."
~Armand
C.D. Hussey
#15. If love was compass enough, said Armand quietly, there would be no missing children.
Louise Penny
#16. And, like Christmas, Armand has brought gifts. But he is no fat, sweet Santa Claus who rewards the nice; he is the Lord of Misrule, the Abbot of Unreason in charge of scandalous fun.
Eliza Crewe
#17. Of course," Armand was saying to Simon, "you know that it was an American, like yourself, who nearly ruined the wine-making in France?" "We're Canadians." "But that is the same thing, surely?
Susanna Kearsley
#18. But Armand always said people react differently to death, and it was folly to judge anyone and double folly to judge what people do when faced with sudden, violent death. Murder. They weren't themselves.
Louise Penny
#19. The Coven of the Articulate - A modern slang term popular among the Undead for the vampires whose stories appear in the Vampire Chronicles - particularly Louis, Lestat, Pandora, Marius, and Armand.
Anne Rice
#20. Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.
Louis Pasteur
#21. Armand Gamache had always held unfashionable beliefs. He believed the light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits.
Louise Penny
#22. I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great jungles and forests; that the stars will finally reveal a vast truth. But I don't believe in anything. And that makes me stronger than you think
Anne Rice
#23. A loyal demon? Who knew," Jo jeers, and I want to hit her.
"No," Armand's voice lashes out. "It's predictably selfish.
Eliza Crewe
#24. I'm going to play,' says Armand, lacing his fingers and cracking the knuckles. 'A pair of these lads can pump for me.'
'Is this a time for playing?' asks Jean Baptiste. Then, 'You are right. You have never been more so.
Andrew Miller
#25. One day that ego of yours'll kill you. That's all it is, you know. You pretend it's selfless, you pretend to be the great teacher, the wise and patient Armand Gamache, but you and I both know it's ego. Pride. Be careful, my friend. She's dangerous. You've said so yourself.
Louise Penny
#28. I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.
Armand Assante
#29. Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality.
Armand Nassery
#30. Seize opportunity by the forelock and see where it leads you.
Armand Hammer
#31. It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.
Armand Assante
#33. Rotten boys with their rotten eyes with their ridiculous rotten eyelashes. They suck a girl in, a pair of Venus fly-traps. No, Venus eye-traps.
Eliza Crewe
#34. A big, spectacular thing can frequently be accomplished quickly. Quality usually takes longer. Fanfare and fireworks are not part of quality; therefore, only those who know true values are attracted to it. But when fanfare and fireworks are over, quality will remain.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#36. I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.
Armand Assante
#39. Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.
Armand Salacrou
#40. Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
Armand Hammer
#41. I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.
Armand Hammer
#42. All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.
Armand Trousseau
#43. My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.
Armand Hammer
#44. Crimes of the century differ from the garden variety of murders. They involve wealth, celebrity and powerful attorneys, and live on for decades after the verdict has been rendered.
Armand Deutsch
#45. Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
Armand Assante
#46. The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.
Armand Salacrou
#47. Eshe, I want to spend my life with you."
"Good," she whispered back. "That was the plan.
Lynsay Sands
#48. Every science touches art at some points - every art has its scientific side; the worst man of science is he who is never an artist, and the worst artist is he who is never a man of science.
Armand Trousseau
#49. I am first and foremost a catalist; I put people and situations together.
Armand Hammer
#50. Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.
Armand Hammer
#53. Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.
Armand Assante
#54. You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it.
Armand Assante
#55. Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's ...
Armand Hammer
#56. Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.
Armand Hammer
#57. People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Armand Hammer
#58. Few of us know what we are capable of doing ... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred
Alfred Armand Montapert
#59. When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.
Armand DiMele
#61. Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character ...
Alfred Armand Montapert
#62. I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.
Armand Assante
#64. I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.
Armand Deutsch
#65. I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?
Armand Assante
#66. The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#67. Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#68. The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#69. The good news is that you just need a bit of compassion to become vegetarian, and this is something widely found in the human race.
Armand Chauvel
#70. You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.
Armand Trousseau
#71. ... it's not the truth about others that will set you free, but the truth about yourself.
Louise Penny
#73. Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.
Armand Hammer
#74. I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.
Armand Hammer
#75. Forget them, Meda. Forget her." He reaches up and puts his hand on the side of my face, tugging it toward him. "I like you as you are. Good, evil, whatever. All I care about is that you're alive. Please, Meda.
Eliza Crewe
#76. We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#77. I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.
Armand Assante
#79. When your inner demons rise up, grab them by the throat and take control.
J. Armand
#81. A friend is a person who likes you for what you are, in spite of all your faults, all your shortcomings.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#82. Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?
Anne Rice
#83. Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.
Armand DiMele
#84. One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.
Armand Hammer
#85. The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist.
Armand Trousseau
#86. The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me.
Armand Assante
#87. The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.
Armand Assante
#88. The secret of health, happiness, and long life: If you simply learn how to accept and express love, you will live longer ... be happier ... grow healthier. For love is a powerful force.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#89. the human condition's like an audience whose members are always surprised when they're required to become actors.
Louis Armand
#91. It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for their heinous crime. My grandfather, Julius Rosenwald, was the chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck and Co. His prominence made me an ideal choice.
Armand Deutsch
#93. The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.
Armand Hammer
#94. When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.
Armand Hammer
#95. What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#96. My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.
Armand Assante
#97. The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years, you will always see the dear face and feel the warm heart union of your eternal love.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#98. I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.
Armand Borel
#99. Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.
Armand Hammer
#100. But let me be a lover in the Savage Garden with you, and the light that went out of life would come back in a great burst of glory. Out of mortal flesh I would pass into eternity. I would be one of you. - Daniel
Anne Rice
