Top 25 Armesto Quotes
#1. When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.
Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos
#2. Like poor immigrants throughout the ages, Jews there adjusted to the jobs no one else would do.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#3. When the United States wants cheap labor, Mexicans respond. When the employment market north of the border is glutted, the barbed wire gets taut, the border patrols fix bayonets, the vigilantes get busy, and the walls go up.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#4. Yet despite these advantages, England's empire remained unlaunched until the seventeenth century. The problem is a dog-in-the-night
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#5. It aligns the cannibals with their real modern counterparts: those who eat "health" diets for self-improvement or worldly success or moral superiority or enhanced beauty or personal purity. Strangely, cannibals turn out to have a lot in common with vegans.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#6. We-skepticism displaces the performative component of the second-person plural as it treats collectivity with suspicion and p1ivileges a fantasy of individual singularity and autonomy. I write "we" hoping to enhance a partisan sense of collectivity.
Anonymous
#8. [P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#9. To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.
Garry Wills
#11. Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.
Gustave Flaubert
#12. Business has to give people enriching, rewarding lives ... or it's simply not worth doing.
Richard Branson
#13. As long as you burn like oil you'll shine like light. If you are shining, it is because you are burning like oil
Ikechukwu Joseph
#14. Truth threatens peace. Those who think they possess it tend to turn into victimizers of the rest, like all the other bullies convinced of the superiority of their own race or class or caste or blood or wisdom.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#16. My lineage is for me enough, / Content to live without expensive stuff" was Alonso Manrique's motto, but he was an accomplished poet.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#17. Chinese naval activity, for instance, was aborted after Zheng He's last voyage, probably as a result of
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#18. All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#19. Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel.
Groucho Marx
#20. We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
Naguib Mahfouz
#21. The myth of Native Americans' talent for conservationism before the arrival of the white man is belied by the evidence of the scale of their slaughters.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#22. Yet we keep returning to reason precisely because it occupies the middle place; it is the revisited point on the swing of the pendulum between scepticism and enthusiasm.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#23. Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.
Mahathir Mohamad
