Top 100 Armand's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.
Armand Deutsch
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. A friend is a person who likes you for what you are, in spite of all your faults, all your shortcomings.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#10. When your inner demons rise up, grab them by the throat and take control.
J. Armand
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.
Armand Hammer
#16. Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.
Armand Hammer
#18. If love was compass enough, said Armand quietly, there would be no missing children.
Louise Penny
#19. ... it's not the truth about others that will set you free, but the truth about yourself.
Louise Penny
#20. You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.
Armand Trousseau
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#24. 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
#25. I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?
Armand Assante
#26. 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
#27. 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. 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
#29. It's illegal, you know," he murmurs. "Stealing."
I clear my throat. "Stealing?"
"My heart. I could have you arrested."
I snort. "For that tiny thing? I'd get a misdemeanor at most.
Eliza Crewe
#31. The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#32. Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#33. No better words than "thank you" have yet been discovered to express the sincere gratitude of one's heart; when the two words are sincerely spoken.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#34. They studied the phenomenon at Harvard." "They studied soul-stealing at Harvard?" "What else do you think they do in business school? In any case, it's called the Ikea effect." "As in furniture?
Eliza Crewe
#35. I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.
Armand Assante
#36. 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
#37. When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.
Armand Hammer
#38. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#43. the human condition's like an audience whose members are always surprised when they're required to become actors.
Louis Armand
#44. 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
#45. The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.
Armand Assante
#46. The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me.
Armand Assante
#47. The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist.
Armand Trousseau
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.
Armand DiMele
#51. 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
#52. I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.
Armand Assante
#53. Armand Gamache had seen the worst. But he'd also seen the best. Often in the same person.
Louise Penny
#54. 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
#55. Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
Armand Assante
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.
Armand Trousseau
#59. 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
#60. Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
Armand Hammer
#61. Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.
Armand Salacrou
#63. Armand Gamache found murderers by following the trail of rancid emotions. Beside
Louise Penny
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. Chief Superintendent Arnot might hold power, but Armand Gamache was the more powerful man.
Louise Penny
#69. 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
#71. 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
#72. Seize opportunity by the forelock and see where it leads you.
Armand Hammer
#73. 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
#74. I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.
Armand Assante
#77. You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.
Anne Rice
#79. Good hearts get hurt. Good hearts get broken, Armand. And then they lash out.
Louise Penny
#80. 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
#81. I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.
Armand Assante
#82. Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character ...
Alfred Armand Montapert
#84. 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
#85. Few of us know what we are capable of doing ... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred
Alfred Armand Montapert
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's ...
Armand Hammer
#89. 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
#90. You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it.
Armand Assante
#91. 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
#93. 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
#95. Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.
Armand Hammer
#96. I am first and foremost a catalist; I put people and situations together.
Armand Hammer
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. Eshe, I want to spend my life with you."
"Good," she whispered back. "That was the plan.
Lynsay Sands
#100. 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
